Views & Opinion

Success in Digitisation of Services during the Pandemic

Pranab Kumar Panday: The COVID-19 cataclysm has brought into focus the potentials of digital communication in everyday life. Digital technology was crucial to confront the consequences of staying at home as most of the countries in the world endured lockdown. The responsible authorities have succeeded in ensuring sustainable access to disaster ...

Time to make our stand against fundamentalist forces loud and clear

Professor Dr. Mamun Al Mahtab (Shwapnil): Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Europe was grappled with fresh round of alleged terror attacks, first in France and then in Austria, that made global headlines, something very unusual during these corona-days, when hardly any news unrelated to COVID-19 is to be seen anywhere in the front or back pages of ...

Bangladesh-India relations: Towards the next 50 years

Jyoti M Pathania and Shafqat Munir: Around this time 49 years ago, the world’s eyes were transfixed on Bangladesh. A nation-state was about to be born and a full-scale war was raging as Bangladesh and Indian forces were racing towards Dhaka. The relationship between Bangladesh and India is therefore unique and organic as it was forged and...

A Dream of 160 Millions Comes True

Pranab Kumar Panday: Bangladeshi people’s dream of Padma Bridge has come true with the installation of the 41st span. Just a very few people could conceive of a bridge constructed in the country on the Padma five years ago. The World Bank's decision to withdraw funding from the mega project on the fake ground of imaginary corruption thwar...

1971 … And The Songs We Sang

Syed Badrul Ahsan: It was early March 1971 when songs became part of the Bengali political consciousness. As the non-violent non-cooperation movement launched by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to counter the conspiracies of the Pakistan ruling junta against popular democratic aspirations progressed, Dhaka Radio introduced Bengalis to a rivet...