Views & Opinion

Spreading hatred on social media is not freedom of expression

Hiren Pandit Freedom to spread racial hatred on social media is not freedom of expression by any means. Recently in Geneva, 25 UN human rights experts said this in a joint statement. In the statement, experts said that the use of racist words has increased significantly since the recent acquisition of Twitter. Through this hatred is being sprea...

Sheikh Hasina Survived Innumerable Attempts on Her Life

Hiren Pandit: Sheikh Hasina was elected president of Awami League in her absence at the party's national council held on February 14-16, 1981. She took the steering of the Awami League as a symbol of unity in the worst possible time for the party. She has brought Awami League to power as a popular party after 21 years in 1996 and has been worki...

Sheikh Hasina is Icon of Changing Bangladesh

Hiren Pandit: The Awami League was formed on the basis of Bengali nationalism, democratic culture, ideals of building a democratic society free from exploitation and the political-economic-social and cultural philosophy of building a developed, prosperous, modern, progressive society and state system. Sheikh Hasina is the successor of the blood...

Was Our Independence a Game of Chance?

Dr. Rashid Askari: One of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) top brass and its standing committee members--Babu Gayeshwar Chandra Roy recently passed a comment in public that has stirred up a real hornet’s nest. While addressing a gathering of reporters in the capital, he opined that Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan by cha...

Bangladesh Surprise: Peaceful protests welcomed

The article was originally published in the Washington Times on 20th January 2023 ------------- Shah Ali Farhad:  Bangladesh’s main opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), spent months preparing for weekend protests in December in the capital, Dhaka. BNP Standing Committee member Dr. Khondker Mosharraf Hossai...