Regarding bilateral ties and international diplomacy, the idea of mutual benefit usually takes the front stage. This background helps one to understand the current Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signing on transit between Bangladesh and India. On the other hand, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has adopted a somewhat opposite position a...
Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has sadly got his history wrong. The Trojan Horse of legend was a trick played on the people of Troy by the Greeks at a point where the Greeks, having besieged the Trojans for years and unable to vanquish them, settled on the nasty idea of concealing their soldiers inside a wooden horse, terming it as a gift for the Trojans, an...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday spelt out seven suggestions, which she earned from the experience of her life, among the students of Qatar for becoming future leaders. ‘I would like to share a few suggestions for future leaders from my life’s experience and struggles — first of all, represent a value; remain focused on...
Habibullah Mizan: Prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent tri-nation visit has turned the opposition movement upside-down. The oppositions have been gripped by a wide-ranging frustration. It is noted that after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had allowed public rally, the opposition led by Bangladesh Nationalist Party held countrywide public ...
Abdullah Al Noman Shamim: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is considered to be a right-wing conservative party that has been in power in Bangladesh on several occasions, with its most recent stint being from 2001 to 2006. Since its inception, the party has produced a different direction that is not in line with the main ideology of the strugg...
Pranab Kumar Panday: There is continual criticism and counter-criticism between the government and opposition parties in Bangladeshi politics before the 12th National Parliament elections to be held in 2023. The ruling party is trying to win the election campaign by touting the successes of the Awami League (AL) during Sheikh Hasina's ten...
Syed Badrul Ahsan: There are the Bangabandhu moments that are part of Bangladesh’s history. As we recall the Father of the Nation on the anniversary of his assassination forty six years ago, we remember too some of the defining moments in his career. He was only 55 when his life was brought to a brutal end, but in that brief span of exist...
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was very keen to know about everything and fond of studying a lot. His father used to buy a lot of books and he used to read out history, geography, English, Bangla, religion, science, literature, the stories about legends and the repression committed by the British regime to Mujib. According to his daughter Sheikh Rehana,...
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman: Mujib Bhai to Bangabandhu
Professor Dr M Shahinoor Rahman: Bangabandhu or the Father of the Nation—by whatever name we call him, his humongous inspirational appearance occupies the lane of our memory whenever we tend to think about anything in the context of Bangladesh. Bangabandhu did not become the Father of the Nation in a single moment or a day. Moreover, you ...
Syed Badrul Ahsan The first time many of us came to know of Sheikh Hasina was on the day after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was freed from the Agartala Case and was released, along with his co-accused, unconditionally. On 23 February 1969, the Karachi-based newspaper Dawn carried a front-page picture of her hugging her father in what was c...
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