World Teachers’ Day / Teachers must be the pivot of change in our education system
5 October 2026
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Views
Why does Tagore still trouble Bangladesh’s idea of ‘us’?
5 October 2026
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In Focus
Is Bangladesh prepared for the next food shock?
4 October 2026
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Big Picture
Can Bangladesh capitalise on the Bay of Bengal’s strategic rise?
4 October 2026
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Geopolitical Insights
World Investor Week / Why fewer than 1% people in Bangladesh invest in stocks
5 October 2026
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Economy
Non-banks losing out to unfair rules
5 October 2026
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Business
How long can farmers keep producing as costs keep rising?
4 October 2026
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Views
Can incentives help Bangladesh attract more FDI?
4 October 2026
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Business
From more power to better power: Rethinking Bangladesh’s energy future
3 October 2026
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Big Picture
Star Interactive / The slum surcharge
4 October 2026
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Utilities
Partners in the genocide
We have used Pakistani sources--books written by Pakistani military officers involved in the operations in East Pakistan in 1971 and the report of a chief justice of Pakistan--to compile these reports to show the extent and complicity of the Pakistan Government and its military in the genocide, destruction, and uprooting of tens of millions of Bangalis in 1971. The facts speak for themselves.
6 December 2015
The blueprint for massacre
We have used Pakistani sources--books written by Pakistani military officers involved in the operations in East Pakistan in 1971 and the report of a chief justice of Pakistan--to compile these reports to show the extent and complicity of the Pakistan Government and its military in the genocide, destruction, and uprooting of more than a crore Bangalis in 1971. The facts speak for themselves.
5 December 2015
A living proof of Pak army's atrocities
She is a living witness of innumerable atrocities by the Pakistan army against unarmed, innocent Bangalee civilians during the nine-month Liberation War.
4 December 2015
Genocide plot conceived at duck shooting trip
It was at a duck shooting trip in Larkana, the hometown of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who lost in the 1970 election to Bangabandhu, that the seed of the genocide in Bangladesh was sowed.
Bhutto and President of Pakistan Yahya Khan met there to discuss how not to hand over power to Mujib. The Larkana Conspiracy, as it is termed, was basically the root of the incidents that followed later including the nine-month genocide and destruction and the bloody War of Independence.
3 December 2015
Genocide Coolly planned, carried out
The Pakistanis had a secret plan -- to fake a political dialogue with Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman while its military prepared to mow down the Bangalis, to terrorise them, to exterminate the Hindus who they viewed as Indian agents, to let loose a genocide campaign and teach the "treacherous" Bangalis a lesson.
2 December 2015
18 years and not done yet!
Today is the 18th anniversary of the CHT Accord, and it is pathetic to hear the tribal leaders still lamenting its non fulfillment in toto.
1 December 2015
PAKISTAN LYING, STILL
Pakistan not only lied by denying its atrocities in Bangladesh in 1971, it deliberately twisted facts to deny the genocide it committed on the Bangali people during the nine-month Liberation War.
1 December 2015
Of war criminals and hypocrites
The death penalty is inhuman and inhumane. What I don't understand, however, is how the UN can call for its abolition in Bangladesh while it [the death penalty]thrives around the world – from neighboring India to the land of the free (the US).
30 November 2015
Rural transformation in focus
RURAL Bangladesh is changing its face. Both physically and structurally. With the rise of various new and emerging activities
29 November 2015
Art for a living
Despite the heat of the midday autumn sun, a small crowd gathered in front of the first gate of a government college in Chandpur town's Nazirpara. People, old and young, were surrounding and intently watching a physically disabled boy, squatting on the ground.
28 November 2015
Turning the leaves of history
Perhaps the Pakistanis need reminding that whereas a full-fledged military operation of the savagest brutality could not silence unarmed Bangalees, such hollow attempts of frail intimidation could not even tickle us.
27 November 2015
Opinion: Facebook, Viber, WhatsApp ban: Cutting the head to cure headache?
It’s been a week since the government has blocked public access to several social media and Internet applications...
26 November 2015
Do we really remember?
We have been taught contradictory versions of history that are outright lies at worst and simplistic at best, to the extent that we now either disavow the atrocities of the Liberation War or use “Muktijuddher Chetona” as a pretext for justifying repressive measures and silencing dissent.
25 November 2015
NO TEARS
Whether you question the trial, the proceedings, or the witnesses is for you to judge, but it is also upon us to share with you tales of our nights of watching shells killing our neighbours, of our homes turning into ashes.
25 November 2015
Lies and audacity
We can react two ways at Pakistan's expression of 'deep anguish' at the hanging of two war criminals – Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed.
23 November 2015
Another step towards justice
One of Bangladesh's many tragedies was the near reversal, within three and a half years of our birth as a country, of the gains of our Liberation War and the coming to power, later, of people who not only opposed the birth of Bangladesh but actively participated in the genocide and crimes against humanity that was the hallmark of the Pakistani forces and their Bengali collaborators.
22 November 2015
War crimes trials: The lobbyists are at work again
The much-awaited verdict on the review petition against convicted war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammed Mojaheed (incidentally, my
21 November 2015
Turning a swamp into fish farm
“It's a great pleasure to feed the fish each day,” says an enthusiastic Kajol Rani Howlader of Choupala Bazar in Jhalakathi sadar upazila, standing beside an unlikely fish enclosure built on swampy, disused land. “We have thousands of fish and after throwing feed, there are so many that anybody can touch them,” she says.
20 November 2015
All his delaying, smear tactics come to nought
He and his men used every means at their disposal to delay his case proceedings and to create controversy over the war crimes trial.
18 November 2015
Unlike any that came before
Evidence emerged in 2014 that the IS' success in the battlefield had a lot to do with the disenfranchised Ba'ath party members of Iraq.
16 November 2015