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Shahriar Feroze

Assistant Editor

Mr. Shahriar Feroze working as Assistant Editor at The Daily Observer

Chaotic empty roads and a German lesson

Shahriar Feroze

I have recently begun bicycling to office. First to make it a part of my regular workout routine and the second for saving the throwaway cash spent on Rickshaw and ride sharing fairs. The main road leading to Motijheel from Elephant Road's Bata shoe shop roundabout becomes relatively free after 4 PM. As the traffic ...

A knee on the neck = A licence to kill

Shahriar Feroze

Barely a week into the George Floyd killing and protests surrounding his grisly death continues to spread like wildfire. First it was restricted within a few American cities and now the rage has triggered a global outcry. Ripple effects of the shocking occurrence can now be heard on the streets of Vancouver to Berlin to ...

A Tri-Nations’ ‘War of Maps’ heats up the region

Shahriar Feroze

Disputes over shared borders and territories along the Himalayan region have always been a bone of contention between India, Nepal and China. And while the world is just about to re-emerge from a global health ravage inflicted by the novel Coronavirus - border enmities among have taken a dramatic shift this month. Delhi, Beijing and ...

Disinfecting or demeaning human dignity?

Shahriar Feroze

What had happened barely three days ago to a batch of migrant workers at an Indian district, in the name of disinfecting by spraying bleach water on them, falls no short of degrading human dignity. If you circumspectly take a deeper look at the photo attached to this piece - it appears to be a ...

Soul searching in the time of Corona - lockdown

Shahriar Feroze

A typical middleclass Dhaka dweller, as I, have a short list of urban demands. A shiny bright day, empty streets, birds chirping out in the open, clean air, no traffic jam and a tranquil silence. And it's all here, though it has come at a terrible cost. For a newspaper journo it is the perfect ...

How Coronavirus keeps mocking at our misguided Ulema!!!

Shahriar Feroze

Our Islamic Foundation has recently come up with a couple of confusing as well as stupid rulings on the topic of offering obligatory and special prayers in the wake of the intensifying Coronavirus spread across the world. However, let's have a clear and closer understanding of them. The first ruling was issued over a couple ...

Bitter lessons Corona keeps teaching us

Shahriar Feroze

Never before in the history of mankind, had a pandemic inflicted with such horrendous cost. A pandemic is also an epidemic that spreads over several countries and continents while affecting a large group of people. On that note - all pandemics are epidemics but not all epidemics turn into pandemics. On the spreading of Coronavirus, ...

The ‘Queen bee’ that fell into its own ‘honey trap’

Shahriar Feroze

PPPPP (Papaya prematurely poisons party and patrons)Following the 'Queen bee' or 'Mafia queen' Papiya's arrest - however you brand her - I was teasingly admitting to my two editorial assistants that I wish I had met her earlier , and especially after coming to know that she also supplied 'foreign models' to an exclusive domestic ...

Exclusive interview of Nepal Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali

Shahriar Feroze

Bangladesh - Nepal bilateral ties has reached new heights in 2020. Nepal Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali was in Dhaka on a three-day visit , scheduled to review the overall aspects of the bilateral relations and exchange views on various topics of mutual interest such as energy, trade, transit, connectivity, tourism and cooperation on regional ...

Remittance outflow from the country shrouded in mystery

Shahriar Feroze

Who are the dubious foreigners evading taxes here?Once again it is the Berlin based Transparency International's Bangladesh branch that has come up with the latest eye-opening revelations , stating - Foreign nationals working in Bangladesh are siphoning off as much as Tk 26,400 crore annually while evading a staggering Tk 12,000 crore in taxes. The ...