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Don’t we have any system in place against repeated theft of billions of taka?

Syed Badiuzzaman

Bangladeshis at home and abroad are raising their eyebrows at the sensational news of alleged embezzlement of thousands of crores of taka by PK Halder, a fugitive businessman of the country who was hiding in the neighbouring West Bengal state of India for several years and just arrested by officials of India's law enforcement and ...

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With burqa ruling, the Taliban takes Afghanistan back to the 1990s

Syed Badiuzzaman

Since the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban in August last year, the Daily Observer of Bangladesh published a series of my articles that repeatedly stated that they hadn't changed based on some of the initial measures they took after the withdrawal of the American soldiers from their country. And this past Saturday, those assessments ...

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Bangladesh again at the bottom for press freedom in South Asia

Syed Badiuzzaman

These are bad days for the overall Bangladesh media as well as the journalists of Bangladesh. Even the press in the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and also in Pakistan, a country whose government is almost always influenced by the military, is faring better than Bangladesh as far as its freedom is concerned. With these shocking revelations, the ...

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Russia’s threat of a nuclear war utterly irresponsible

Syed Badiuzzaman

The Geneva-based International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) which won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize has vividly described the impact of the world's two atomic bomb blasts detonated by the United States over Japan that brought an end to the Second World War back in 1945.The impact was enormous! Seventy-seven years on, it still ...

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The Taliban assault on Afghan press continues unabated

Syed Badiuzzaman

The control of information has always topped the agenda of any authoritarian regime anywhere in the world. Because dictatorial governments never want the outside world to see, hear or know what they actually do inside their countries--a cunningly devised plan to primarily cover up their misdeeds. Time has changed over the years but the tactics ...

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A science teacher becomes victim of a conspiracy

Syed Badiuzzaman

An office assistant of a school takes a science teacher to court. It doesn't sound quite right, does it? But that was exactly what just happened in Bangladesh known as a moderate Muslim democracy. An office assistant of a Munshiganj school, not far from the nation's capital, put a science teacher of the same school ...

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Women’s forehead dots: None of police’s business

Syed Badiuzzaman

This past weekend, the social media exploded in anger over the harassment of a college professor by an unprofessional police constable with no knowledge of law and respect for the citizens of the country in the capital of Bangladesh. The professor was allegedly intimidated for wearing a coloured dot on her forehead.The ugly incident drew ...

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Bangladesh’s yes vote on UN resolution was the right thing

Syed Badiuzzaman

Bangladesh has done the right thing by voting in favour of the March 24 non-binding resolution at the United Nations General Assembly that demanded an immediate halt to the war in Ukraine initiated by Russia. With its yes vote on the resolution, Bangladesh fulfilled its moral obligation and secured its place on the right side ...

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Finally, the US calls a genocide a genocide

Syed Badiuzzaman

Finally, the United States has called a genocide in Myanmar a genocide reversing its earlier position. But it took a new US administration and new American leadership to come to the determination that Myanmar's military carried out genocide, not simply an "ethnic cleansing" of the minority Rohingya Muslims in the Buddhist-majority country. During the Trump ...

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Putin’s Ukraine war puts the world on edge

Syed Badiuzzaman

No one has narrated the evils of war more eloquently and boldly than Henry John Patch, the last surviving combat soldier of the First World War. Dubbed in his later years as the "Last Fighting Tommy," Patch was an English supercentenarian who fought in the trenches and described war as "organized murder and nothing else."Also ...