World
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Macaulay was a foot soldier in the massive Western civilisational onslaught
If we cannot erase the impact of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s Minute of 1835, 190 years after what he wrote, then 1,900 years later, too, we will continue to blame just one individual…
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Funeral held for Bangladesh’s uprising leader Sharif Osman Hadi
Dhaka: Bangladesh held the funeral of prominent youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi on Saturday drawing a large number of people in the capital amid extra-tight security after his death triggered unrest across…
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UEFA fines Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv football club over fans’ racist chants
The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has imposed a €20,000 fine on Israeli football club Maccabi Tel Aviv and prohibited the club’s fans from attending the next away match, after the…
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7 arrested over man’s lynching in Bangladesh
Dhaka/ New Delhi: Seven people have been arrested in connection with the lynching of a Hindu man in Bangladesh, the interim government announced on Saturday. Dipu Chandra Das, 25, was lynched to…
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US launches airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria
Washington: The Trump administration launched military strikes Friday in Syria to “eliminate” Islamic State group fighters and weapons sites in retaliation for an ambush attack that killed two US troops and an…
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Epstein sex trafficking investigation: US DoJ releases limited set of files
Washington: The Justice Department released thousands of files Friday about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein but the incomplete document dump did not break significant ground about the long-running criminal investigations of the…
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Bill Gates, Woody Allen, Chomsky in newly released Epstein photos
Washington: As the United States Justice Department faces a Friday deadline to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released various photos of the convicted sex offender on…
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Bangladesh uprising leader’s death sparks nationwide protests, violence
Dhaka: Tension gripped Bangladesh on Friday after the death of prominent July Uprising leader Sharif Osman Hadi triggered protests and violence in various parts of the country. While no incidents of violence…













