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● Mostafiz wins Rangpur city polls ● Ex-Ctg mayor Mohiuddin Chowdhury dies ● Mayor Annisul Huq passes away ● HC verdict on BDR mutiny: Death penalty for 139, life term for 185 ● HC begins reading verdict on BDR mutiny ● 3 siblings among 5 killed in Kishoreganj clash ● 4 workers killed in Sylhet stone quarry landslide

The making of Donald Trump

Shahriar Feroze

Indisputably, he is the most talked about Head-of-State right now almost anywhere across the globe, so when i first spotted the book on the making of Donald Trump at Lahore airport's bookshop the mind was fixed, it had to be

Dear ministers, please make sensible, realistic remarks

Shahriar Feroze

The fact that some of our government ministers are in the habit of making public statements in the heat of the moment or out of sheer emotional outbursts is not a new phenomenon. However, recently three statements made by three

Nayak Raj's grand exit for a new role in a different world

Shahriar Feroze

His life has been one full of struggle, coincidences, success and unimaginable popularity. Few movie stars can go beyond the silver screens in the likes of a true hero and Nayak Raj Razzak was one of them. The undisputed emperor

Why we fail to mourn 15 August as one nation?

Shahriar Feroze

Perhaps the easiest answer to the title above is because of the intense political hatred that has bitterly divided the country and its people. The fact that extreme political rivalry can give birth to extreme divisions is evident in Bangladesh

PAB's postage stamp exhibit attempts to revive philately in Bangladesh

Shahriar Feroze

The Philatelists' Association of Bangladesh (PAB) recently arranged a three day long philatelic exhibition marking the 30 year anniversary of PAB. Taken place between August 10 and 12 at the postal auditorium of the General Post Office (GPO), the display

When money spent for drains goes into it

Shahriar Feroze

Last night I was watching a private channel interviewing a number of renowned architects and engineers about the growing incidence of water-logging in Dhaka. Coupled with gross mismanagement all of them blamed the pointless and inefficient building of box-culverts around

Stop causing pointless disruptions by showing excessive political gusto

Shahriar Feroze

When there are so many critically important national issues to be addressed - some of our politicians needlessly makes a mountain out of a mole by giving birth to pointless controversy. This time the hullabaloo surrounds the portrait drawing of

What went wrong for the Chief Engineer?

Shahriar Feroze

Having read about the arrest of the Shipping Department's Chief Engineer Fakhrul Islam with bribes at his office last Tuesday, I couldn't help wondering what had gone wrong for him this time. Of course, this is not the first time

Ah...those good-old paper flying tickets

Shahriar Feroze

The lure, charm and unending curiosity of airline paper tickets with brightly coloured frontages and different logos are now an item of a bygone era in the aviation industry. However, there once was a time when this writer and his

On the US dropping of "mother of all bombs"

Shahriar Feroze

Last Thursday, the American Air force has dropped its heaviest conventional bomb in the history of warfare. The target of it was militarily described as a tunnel complex surrounded by mountains in Afghanistan. According to news reports of the Afghan