Cross-cultural understanding
Minhaj Qidwai :With Turkey playing a key role in the first world war, the Western leaders realized that without breaking the Ottoman empire their goals...
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The Third Intifada is underway
Thomas L. Friedman :For a while now I’ve wondered why there’s been no Third Intifada. That is, no third Palestinian uprising in the West Bank,...
Oli for fresh polls early
UNB, Dhaka :Terming the January-5 election a ‘farcical’ one, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) President Colonel (retd) Oli Ahmad on Friday demanded the government arrange fresh...
Hasina visits Rajshahi today
UNB, Dhaka :Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will tour Rajshahi on Saturday to inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of a number of development projects and...
Rise in house rents hitting hard city dwellers
THE unprecedented increase in house rents in recent months is creating growing pressure on city dwellers and is hitting them hard. It is almost a...
Pakistani named as ‘global terrorist’
PTI, Washington :The United States yesterday designated Lashkar-e-Jhangvi co-founder Malik Ishaq, blamed for the killing of scores of members of Pakistan’s Shia minority, as a...
Image of public universities has to be saved
LARGE-SCALE recruitment of teachers and employees violating rules over the last one decade is at the center of the recent unrest at Rajshahi University, news...
‘I am not Taliban Khan’
PTI, Islamabad :Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan on Friday claimed the Taliban’s decision to hold talks under Pakistan’s Constitution has exposed the lobby that was deliberately maligning...