Nina L. Khrushcheva/Project Syndicate The problem with a semi-authoritarian regime like Vladimir Putin’s is that people’s behavior is not fully under the leader’s control. And, in today’s Russia, this extends to the news media, which report far more often – and more boldly – on social challenges, and the anger they stoke, than outsiders might…
Desk Report: Students who took to the streets over the last four days demanding safe roads have started policing delinquent drivers. A midday scene that played out in Dhanmondi yesterday illustrates the vigilant steps by the students who lost two of their fellows to a road crash on Jul 29. A police vehicle was stopped…
BBC News:Australia’s population will reach 25 million for the first time on Tuesday, according to official estimates.The milestone, driven significantly by migration, has magnified debate about the merits of a “big or little” Australia, and congestion in cities.The most contentious aspect has been migration: is it growing too fast, or will it continue to benefit…
Reuters: Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan will skip next month’s United Nations General Assembly session to focus his attention on the country’s economy, said his foreign minister. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi will head the Pakistani delegation at 73rd U.N. General Assembly session set to open on September 18. “No, the prime minister is…
Banglanews24: February 1, 2 have been fixed to celebrate Jatiya Kabita Utshab on the premises of Dhaka University. The organizers of National Poetry Council made the announcement at a news conference at TSC of DU on Friday (January 11). Poet Asad chowdhury will inaugurate the function. The registration for the festival, as already has begun…
BSS Bangladeshi media on Saturday lauded the national cricket team’s spirited showing in the Asia Cup final after they went down to favourites India in a last-ball thriller in Dubai. Opener Liton Das slammed his maiden one-day international century in Bangladesh’s modest 222 but it was the bowlers who made India sweat in their nervy…
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed In 1960s when Bengalis of erstwhile East Pakistan were subjected to the most humiliating treatment, it would be no exaggeration to state that they were experiencing the tribulations of a colonised people. In an atmosphere of all-pervasive fear and subjugation, it was Bangabandhu who confronted the mighty Field Marshal Ayub Khan…
Fabia Shahzadi A relationship can be abusive in certain ways, but abuse ultimately boils down to power and control. A relationship is defined as abusive when one partner uses violence, whether it is physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological, to influence the other partner. Although women are more prone to be victims of relationship abuse,…
Taqi Yasir As functionally directed by Malcolm D. Lee, “Barbershop: The Next Cut” retains the lively yet stage bound feel of its workplace-comedy predecessors (including 2005’s Queen Latifah-starring spinoff, “Beauty Shop”). Despite the occasional cutaways to homes, schools and other outside locations, the movie derives its energy almost entirely from the bristling quality of the…
DOT Desk Internationally renowned Spanish-Bangladeshi artist Monirul Islam will be conferred the Royal Spanish Order of Merit at the residence of the Ambassador of Spain in Bangladesh, today evening, reports The Daily Star. The living legend of art was recently bestowed with the Bangla Academy Honouary Fellowship 2018 in Fine Arts. He will also receive…