It is baffling that physical courage is so common in the world and moral courage so rare. It is hard to find people whose manner is infused with kindness, humility and integrity, in other words, character. The issue is relevant because it is timeless.

The challenge now before all of us is to determine how deep and wide the spread of extremist ideologies is, how entrenched is the threat and, more importantly, how we can effectively fight it.

While major Western media outlets didn't make much of the news, it is obvious that the French and US airstrikes that targeted the village of Toukhan Al-Kubra near the Turkish-Syrian border and the city of Manbij had gone horribly wrong!

Despite all the ramifications of progressiveness that civilisation has experimented with, the preoccupation with the female members of the population has never been on the wane.

“Patriotism” and “national unity” trumped truth. The line between propaganda and journalism was forgotten.

There are two kinds of virtues, the resume virtues and the eulogy virtues. The former are the skills that one brings to a job interview.

With the exception of four years when he was abroad, 62-year-old Ashrafuzzaman Mohabbat had offered every single Eid prayer at

We have been attacked as never before. The facts do not need to

Although some Bangladeshi politicians till the recent past – the home minister repeated his position on July 3 2016 that the Holey Artisan Bakery massacre has no ISIS link...

As a people, as a Nation and as a country we are shell shocked at the brutality of the terrorist attack that killed twenty two people at

Of late we have seen pictures of the police handing over bamboo sticks to groups of people in various districts ostensibly for the purpose of combating militancy and extremism in the country.

LISA, a thorough Texan, had left the United States only once for a vacation. She had never travelled the world before.

While European leaders dreamt of an intertwined economy across Europe 43 years ago, the British people desired something else.

The Muslim world is in agony each time there is a killing in a non-Muslim locale. Who did it? Why, is not important, and most often never known. Will it be a person carrying a Muslim name? Will they then search for his terrorist linkage? Will it be a non-

Avijit Mukherjee, son of Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and Lok Sabha MP, recently on a private visit to Dhaka, has left a good impression by his clarity of thought on a rather tangled issue.

The Chairman and members of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Bangladesh has completed their tenure on July 22, 2016.

In the first two days of the week, two key suspects of machete killings, Faijullah and Sharif, were killed in 'shootouts'. Though the

Take a look at the news-stories that really stirred our civic discourse in 2016: Rampal, central bank heist, teacher's humiliation by lawmaker or Tonu's murder. Think back another year: remember the #RichKids incident where a drunken teen (a former MP's nephew)

Confusion, denial and finally, elation – these were the three stages of emotions that I experienced when my son enthusiastically informed that he wanted to go outside and play football with me.

Countries with a successful PPP programme have built it on a solid framework. The Government of Bangladesh passed the PPP law last year. Before that, in 2011, it formed the Bangladesh Infrastructure Finance Fund Limited (BIFFL), a government-owned non-banking financial institution with a mandate to invest in large infrastructure projects, including power and energy, ports, connectivity, tourism and economic zones.