In this issue

Independent Bangladesh At 49 The state we wrought
COVID-19: Killer on the loose
The Ferguson Report
Community spread in Bangladesh?
The search for a cure

Rohingya: Walk A Mile In Their Shoes

My reminiscences of Cox’s Bazar are deeply rooted in my childhood during family vacations taken with my parents and three siblings - horse rides on the beach, sunsets against the widest horizon, charcoal barbecues by nightfall, and copious amounts of seafood throughout our stays. My recent trip to Cox’s Bazar, some 20 odd years later, however, was starkly contrasting in that the circumstance was dire, one which continues to sit steep in my mind.

5 mins

Suu Kyi Risks Losing Ground To Military Over Rakhine Crisis

YANGON • Locals like to joke that Myanmar has two governments. That’s not very far from the truth.

4 mins

Satellite Images Show Sprawling Rohingya Refugee Camps

Massive, makeshift refugee camps are sprawling over farms and open land in southern Bangladesh as more than 500,000 Rohingya Muslims flee violent attacks in their predominantly Buddhist homeland of Myanmar.

2 mins

Akhtarun Nahar Ivy's 9

UNB Cultural DeskArt is a unique, powerful tool of connecting people, culture, says Ahn Seong-Doo

3 mins

Ganasangeet Festival Still Showing Hope For Music

Ganasangeet Festival Still Showing Hope For Music

1 min

Trump Hurtles Toward Three Nuclear Crises

Trump Hurtles Toward Three Nuclear Crises

3 mins

What Bangladesh Stands To Gain From Bangabandhu-1

What Bangladesh Stands To Gain From Bangabandhu-1

2 mins

Where Good Voices Must Go Bad

Where Good Voices Must Go Bad

3 mins

The minister's one hundred taka

The minister’s one hundred taka

3 mins

Dhaka Wants Delhi Pressure For Rohingya Return

Indian foreign secretary visits Bangladesh, no development on Teesta front

6 mins

Yves Marre completes 1st voyage of “Sunflower kayak” amidst turbulent seas

Yves Marre completes 1st voyage of “Sunflower kayak” amidst turbulent seas

3 mins

Let There Be Light

Social entrepreneur Sajid Iqbal’s mission to conserve energy

4 mins

Next Decade For BD Economy Looks Bright: BB Chief Economist

Next Decade For BD Economy Looks Bright: BB Chief Economist

2 mins

Journalism's key role in history

Journalism’s key role in history

10+ mins

Red Hot

The low base from which the electricity sector started its turnaround means prices too are on an upswing.

9 mins

Paying The Penalty For Low Food Stock

There are many good reasons why should a government maintain a minimum food reserve in the country. First of all the government has to run several dozens of foodaided social safety net programmes under the public food distribution system and to do so government must have certain volume of food in the public granaries. Unless the reserve is at sufficient level it may constrain government’s capacity to cater to the needs of ultrapoor, who are generally the beneficiaries of the safety net programmes.

4 mins

John F. Kennedy Memories Of An Assassination

The memories come flooding back, all the way from fifty four years ago.

5 mins

Deshbandhu...Shooting Star Across Our Skies

Ninety two years after his passing, Chittaranjan Das remains a significant point of reference in South Asian history.

4 mins

ICAB Awards 28 Financial Outfits For Best Annual Reports

This year 28 financial outfits have won the 17th ICAB National Award under different categories for their best presented annual reports of 2016.

2 mins

Secret Glimpses From Nepal

The last rays of the sun pierced through the window. A gecko on the window-glass inched closer to its prey, a mosquito. I lit a cigarette and silently waited to see how the lizard preys upon its victim.

7 mins

Diplomacy And Papacy: How Do The Twain Meet?

[The essay analyses the challenges that Pope Francis confronted during his recent trip in an effort to defuse the tensions created by the Rohingya crisis between Myanmar and Bangladesh and also to draw the attention of the world to this massive humanitarian crisis. He seemed unswayed by either praise or criticism, and he drew both. He was able to demonstrate that while, as Pope, he might not command any military divisions, as Stalin had disdainfully observed, he had the courage to attempt at more than what many other leaders who did.]

5 mins

Nobel Peace Prize For Sheikh Hasina?

Congratulations are in order for Cardinal D’Rozario, Archbishop George Kocherry, (the Apostolic Nuncio, ambassador), Bishop Shorot Gomes and their team on their great success in bringing Pope Francis – the world’s biggest pop star with over 1.2-billion devout followers – to Bangladesh.

1 min

Khaleda With Baggage Of Cases

Election conundrum - To be or not to be, that is the question

7 mins

Glen T. Martin On The Need For A Federation Of The Earth

The dream for a world state in place of today’s multiple states based on nationalities that are in conflict with one another is very old.

3 mins

To Commune With The Eternal Soul, An Artist's Journey

Through his more-than-six-year journey as a professional artist, Zahangir Alom has ever-refined his innate capacity to translate heartfelt observations of the natural world into artistic compositions infused with insight.

4 mins

Victory Day Minds Without Fear, Heads Held High

The year 2017 is not the year 1971. The middle-aged citizen of today is no more the youth of yesterday. The freedom we enjoy in these times is far removed from the tortuous struggle we waged for liberty in those times. And yet there is something called history that connects the dots and links the linear lines of matters generational. That is the reason why we remember 16 December 1971 in winter 2017.

4 mins

Road To Bangladesh 1971

Road To Bangladesh 1971

2 mins

'Goom' Or Enforced Disappearance: Even One Is One Too Many

Even one missing person is too many. Isn’t it so – unless, of course, one prefers remain content with what the state’s top policeman has recently said. Media quoted the Inspector General of Police as saying, “Enforced disappearance, abduction and killing are nothing new. It has been going on since the British period.”

4 mins

Bangabandhu, Tajuddin...And Our Sad History

There is a whole raft of reasons why Tajuddin Ahmad will not be forgotten by this nation. And it is particularly in October when memories of the man who led the battlefield struggle for national liberation are reignited, enough to make us ponder whether the chaos we wallowed through between August 1975 and June 1996 would have come to pass had Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Tajuddin Ahmad not fallen out with each other.

3 mins

KIFF Finding Its Distinct Voice

In Japan film festivals are often seen by outsiders as a congested pack where each try hard to get its distinct voice heard far and wide. However, except for a handful of festivals like the Tokyo International, the majority of forty plus film festivals end up being also in the group that failed to attract wide attention of the media or general audience. Hence, for a new festival to make a breakthrough is extremely difficult. This is precisely the reason that when the city of Kyoto decided to launch a brand new international film festival in 2014, there was widely held apprehension about its success.

3 mins

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