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Justice Murshed and the reign of conscience

Anwar A. Khan : In remembrance of Justice Syed Mahbub Murshed’s 115th birth anniversary (11 January 2026), memory returns to us not as nostalgia, but as a summons. It asks whether we still believe...

Stagnation in police and administration

MEDIA reports have highlighted the current precarious state of the country’s police and civil administration. The pace of work in these two important pillars of the state apparatus has almost come to a standstill....

Opportunity to pay commission in non-life insurance abolished

Sarfaraz Hossain FCS : Opportunity to pay commission in non-life insurance abolished by IDRA. On December 23, 2025, the Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority (IDRA) issued a circular regarding the individual agent commissions and...

Severe gas crisis grips Bangladesh

Bangladesh is facing one of the worst gas crises in its recent history, as supply shortages continue to deepen across residential, industrial, transport, and fertilizer sectors. For many years the country has been grappling...

Let’s put an end to the horror of disappearances

ENFORCED disappearances are a much-discussed term in the recent history of Bangladesh. The final report of the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances has revealed a horrific picture of the culture of enforced disappearances...

Do Not Allow Politics To Colonise Our Shared Games

  Prof. Dr. Golam Rasul : When cricket is weaponized against Bangladesh while India’s own internal challenges are ignored, the message is unmistakable: power, not principle, is guiding moral judgment. This undermines the very...