Syed Nasir Ershad Today Usain Bolt rewrote the history by winning his third consecutive Olympics gold in 100 meters sprint. Beijing-London-Rio. Three continents, three countries, three cities. He bolted them all in the Olympic Games. The Olympics have evolved dramatically since the first modern games were held in 1896. In the second half of the…
Mohammad Ali Sattar In modern times it was President Ronald Reagan who surprised many by winning the white house race. Not only did he create a stir in US and world politics, he created further excitement by returning to the president’s office for the scone term as well. It was surprising because the world thought…
Eshan Maitra “We are in more dangerous place now, than we were in 20 years ago,” says Ang Cui in the interview with the Motherboard by Victoria Turk. As mentioned in the last part of the article, they are one of the white hat hackers, who are actually helping with hacking. Meaning they do not…
Maisha Mahbub The Picture, taken during the women’s beach volleyball preliminary round match between Egypt and Germany on August 7, has ascended an immense contradiction between two point of views. Some made it a perfect visualization of the ideal of “blending sport with culture and education” and some slurred it as a “massive cultural divide”….
Sakib Khondoker And the global brutality rages on. This time, Islamabad, Pakistan. A chorus of confused responses followed the Quetta carnage on August 8, that left over 70 dead and dozens maimed. The top civil and military leadership called it an attempt by the “enemies of the country” to sabotage the ongoing China-Pakistan Economic Corridor…
Eshan Maitra Today is the day we lost our beloved leader and the Father of our nation. But, let us not only mourn on this day. Rather, also remember the legacy that Bangabandhu has left for us, and the nation he left for us. His glory will never fade away from the pages of history…
Enayetullah Khan In the dawn of August 15, 1975, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman made one of his final phone calls to his military secretary Col Jamil Uddin Ahmad. He had been attacked, Bangabandhu told Col Jamil, and the residence on Road 32 was surrounded. Then the line went dead. On a night when conspiracy was…
Mohammad Ali Sattar The early dawn of August 15, 1975 was easily the darkest dawn in the post liberation history of Bangladesh. The event that no one could imagine had its face bared in the ugliest way. The early autumn dawn was ominous in so many ways. The evil forces which gathered in places of…
Samiul Bashar Samin He looks into their eyes and the despair in their red eyes says it all. It seemed like it had been eons since they last saw the colors of the sky to be blue. Rainbows were just ancient mytholo to them. There was not a single cloud that failed to breathe out…