• 1 bank to coordinate funding for SMEs in each district
  • DSE turnover crosses Tk 600cr amid growing confidence
  • Blasts shake Homs, Syria rebels hit back
  • Obama visits border amid DPRK tensions
  • Basic rights need to be made legally enforceable duties of the state
  • Immediate steps to arrest price spirals essential
  • Chittagong people face hours-long power cuts
  • BCC plans to fell century-old trees
  • Muktijuddho and Bengali exceptionalism
  • Parliamentary misconduct
  • Recalling artists’ contribution to independence war
  • Street theatre and struggle for independence
  • The seductions of violence in Iraq
  • A memorable flight back home
  • Mushfiq steers Jamal with fourth ton
  • Tamim picked by Pune
  • Violence at Ishwardi EPZ over demand for wage hike
  • One robbery suspect lynched, 4 injured in Ctg
  • Independence Day today
  • Income inequality unchanged
  • Bangladesh honours foreign friends tomorrow
  • Malaysia nods Padma bridge investment
  • Criminal excesses overshadow RAB success
  • Nation demands recognition of March 25 as genocide day
  • BNP calls off March 29 strike
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Basic rights need to be made legally enforceable duties of the state

FOLLOWED by a series of political and cultural movements for the right to autonomy and self-determination, Bangladesh emerged as an independent state through a people’s war in 1971. It was those social... Full story

Immediate steps to arrest price spirals essential

THE fresh hike in the prices of a number of essential commodities, as mentioned in a report published in New Age on Sunday, over the last fortnight yet again highlights the indifference of the Awami League-Jatiya... Full story

Muktijuddho and Bengali exceptionalism

A woman carrying a rifle and her children emerge out of hiding during the war of independence. Bangladesh, 1971. ©Penny Tweedie
STORYTELLING often helps convey the message more sharply, more pointedly than lengthy passages full of heavy prose. A friend’s daughter, who is British and of Bangladeshi parentage, works in the British army. Full story


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