The historic 6-point programme announced after the 1965 India-Pakistan War was the turning point that showed the people the dream of self-determination.
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Biden embodies confidence of Americans and world at large
The 46th President of the United States Joe Biden has by the stroke of pen on the very day of his inauguration started the process of changing America and its relations with the rest of the world.
Glorious days: Sensational interview of man living with AIDS
Professional colleagues in Bangladesh, especially the seniors, used to call me a pioneer in reporting on AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) because many of the breaking news stories in this arena were done by me in the late eighties of…
Division, exclusion discarded with ideas of unity, inclusion
The victory of Democratic candidate Joe Biden in the US presidential election is poised to bring more than a change in White House. Not only shall America find the most powerful man on earth promoting unity in place of division…
Glorious days: Campaign blocking waste import had life risks
Mostafa Kamal Majumder My lookout for news stories landed me on a move by some greedy people coming up with a formal proposal submitted to the government in October 1988 to import toxic wastes camouflaging it under the cover of…
Glorius days: Rare aura of unanimity seen in 1991 Parliament
Mostafa Kamal Majumder When the Bangladesh Nationalist Party won the 1991 parliamentary elections held on 27 February initially securing a total of 141 seas against Awami league’s 88, many in political circles thought the party fell into a dilemma about…
Glorious days: New Nation escaped internecine Ittefaq feud
Mostafa Kamal Majumder The publication of The New Nation remained uninterrupted and its journalists and employees worked in unbelievable safety for one full year when the proprietor and the members of his family were unable to enter the Ittefaq Bhaban,…
Glorious Days: Dream housing society of Dhaka’s Journalists
Mostafa Kamal Majumder From the early eighties I started getting offers to contest elections of the Jatiya Press Club Managing Committee. I always sidetracked such offers because I felt I had little time to spare in Press Club activities. I…
Glorious days: Walkout, division at first sitting of 1991 JS
Mostafa Kamal Majumder After the election of the 1991 Parliament on 27 February that year following nine long years of movement that toppled the rule of President Hussain Muhammad Ershad, private members belonging to the BNP, the Awami League, especially…
Why some medicines do not work?
The other day I had an opportunity to discuss with a pharmacist the reasons behind the lack of efficacy of drugs. The pharmacists sitting in his drug store in the Kalsi area of Mirpur in Dhaka City wanted to know…
Stoppage of briefing on coronavirus situation unexpected
The decision of the Directorate General of Health Services not to hold briefings on the coronavirus situation from Wednesday cannot be a welcome move.
Glorious Days: Experience of working with senior bureaucrats
Mostafa Kamal Majumder When The New Nation became financial stable by the year 2007, the proprietor of the paper started experimenting with CSP cadre bureaucrats to establish themselves at its helm. They were retired secretaries to the government. I took…
Memorable days: Learning to give space to opposition voices
Mostafa Kamal Majumder When I joined journalism the political arena was extremely polarized. The language of politics of especially the opposition was so strong that verbatim reporting of their viewpoints would lead to rejection of the news copy because the…
Memorable days: Improving a paper’s look to attract readers
Mostafa Kamal Majumder While improving the content of The New Nation, I simultaneously initiated measures to improve the getup and makeup of the paper. I noticed that the computer section was deciding how the getup should be like on a…
Don’t be misled by lower figures of Covid-19 cases
Bangladesh on Saturday reported 2,686 new Covid-19 cases as against 2,949 cases reported on Friday, a drop by 263 cases just in a day. Ordinarily, this would look like an improvement in the coronavirus situation in the country. But when…
Memorable days: Narrow escape from bomb at Mushtaq’s meet
Mostafa Kamal Majumder Political violence in Bangladesh is an old phenomenon. I came face to face with a very destructive such violence on 23 May 1980 when a public meeting of Khondaker Mushtaq Ahmad came under a bomb attack in…
Memorable days: 5th Parliament opens orientation for new MPs
Mostafa Kamal Majumder The fifth Parliament elected under the interim government of Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed on 27 February 1991 had a host of new members to the Parliament. The election was like a festival with all parties taking part in…
Glorious days: Offer to be Press Secretary to the President
Mostafa Kamal Majumder As The New Nation became more or less self-reliant and I could respond to demands of working journalists to improve their working conditions in the paper with a mission to make it sustainable I got a phone…
Glorious days: How AL made BNP alienate JP in Parliament
Mostafa Kamal Majumder The Old Sangsad Bhaban at Nakhalpara was where I started my Parliament reporting. My seniors most of the time used to engage me to cover the question hour held at the start of sittings every day. The…
Glorious days: How a newspaper lost 14 years of web database
Mostafa Kamal Majumder The New Nation was at a high trajectory in respect of its circulation through the Internet. But at least 14 years of soft copies of the paper were lost as the website from where it was available…
Memorable days: Old Sangsad Bhaban now Prime Minister’s office
Mostafa Kamal Majumder At the close of a programme of the Ministry of Education at the Milanee Hall of Hotel Purbani International, education secretary Kazi Fazlur Rahman was exchanging views with journalists. Prime Minister Shah Azizur Rahman who was in…
Memorable days: The paper was flooded with reading materials
Mostafa Kamal Majumder Apart from two fresh editorials a day the inside pages of The New Nation started getting so much of up to date reading materials that those had to be accommodated through careful planning. Besides regular contributors like…
Memorable days: When Kamal takes me people think I still can work
Mostafa Kamal Majumder The inside pages of The New Nation needed to be uplifted to increase its readership. I found the district page was two days’ stale. The man in -charge was not computer literate and was totally at the…
Glorious days: Wide DU teacher-student gap makes hit story
Mostafa Kamal Majumder I began attempting scoop news items apart from doing event-based stories and started attracting more attention of seniors and gradually made my place secure in The Bangladesh Times. One such report was on the worsening teacher-student relations…
Glorious days: Plugging in loopholes for economic baseline
Mostafa Kamal Majumder The proprietors of The New Nation did not ask me to look after the financial management of the paper. Yet I felt the burden because the journalists and general employees readily find the editor to tell of…
Memorable days: Sheer luck to join a paper full of luminaries
Mostafa Kamal Majumder It was a matter of sheer luck that I joined The Bangladesh Times at the start of my career in journalism. The paper was the most dynamic among four English dailies of Dhaka City at that time…
Memorable days: Tough first few months to assert as editor
Mostafa Kamal Majumder After taking over as editor of The New Nation in May I spent some tough months for a variety of reasons. The proprietor used to subsidise the paper with his earnings from the Daily Ittefaq. The paper…
Memorable daysঃ My answer will be both ‘yes’ and ‘no’
Mostafa Kamal Majumder If anybody asks me if I have come to the profession of journalism by conscious choice, my answer will be both ‘yes’ and ‘no’. Yes, because after coming to this profession I have really made no serious…
Memorable days in the career of an unsung newspaper editor
Mostafa Kamal Majumder When I was offered to be the editor of The New Nation, Dhaka on 4 May 2005, I had already worked there as Executive Editor for nearly two years. I thought it was time for me to…
দেশের প্রথম কম্পিউটার ও ইন্টারনেট সমৃদ্ধ জাতীয় প্রেস ক্লাব লাইব্রেরী
মোস্তফা কামাল মজুমদার নতুন সদস্যরা জেনে আনন্দিত হবেন, আমাদের সবার প্রিয় জাতীয় প্রেস ক্লাবে ইমেইল ইন্টারনেট সংযোগ স্থাপিত হয় জাতীয়ভাবে ইন্টারনেট ব্যবস্থা চালু হবার দুই বছর আগে ১৯৯৪ সালে। তার আগের বছর সেখানে কম্পিউটার সংযোজিত করে লাইব্রেরীকে সমৃদ্ধ করা হয়।…