• Jamaat-Shibir violence and largely defensive law enforcers
  • A legitimate demand that govt needs to pay heed to
  • Make the JSC stipend meaningful
  • Congratulations BPL
  • Questions on Rooppur nuclear power plants
  • Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues: the debate
  • Classical music fest continues at Shilpakala
  • Shambhu’s paintings follow age old tradition
  • 65 bodies found ‘executed’ in Syria river
  • Looting in Timbuktu
  • Police spread dragnet for Jamaat-Shibir men
  • Verdict on Sayedee any day
  • Padma graft, BCL rowdism embarrasses govt: Inu
  • Police asked to treat rape complaints as FIRs
  • Political violence feared to affect fair
  • Freelancers earned Tk 1cr per day last year: ICT adviser
  • Import, export fees hiked by up to 275pc
  • Cut in spectrum block allocation, relax payment mode likely
  • Gladiators end Royals unbeaten run
  • Edwards bowls Riders to easy win
  • Hong Kong to recruit 80,000 housemaids in 6 months
  • Submit probe report on Quasem by March 3: ICT
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Questions on Rooppur nuclear power plants

FEW critical questions have been raised so far by Bangladesh’s intellectual community regarding the deal towards construction of two nuclear power plants in Rooppur. Yet, questions do need to be posed. Full story

Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues: the debate

I AM glad to see the op-ed ‘Eve’s monologues undermine the women’s movement’ (New Age, January 22) by Farida Akhter, a person for whom I have great admiration. If I follow correctly, there are two key points to her argument. Full story

Hotspots and have-nots

Unless the playing field is levelled, we risk our own survival. We can’t imagine a world where everyone doesn’t have access to a phone, yet the internet is a more resilient, more powerful, more adaptable, more malleable... Full story


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