Unrestrained partisan politics is leading to the rapid decline of standards in public life. This can be seen in pre-election campaigns, public protests and on-line postings.
Category: Op-Ed
Jalebi uncoiled: I am in a ‘fix’…and you?
Dr.Sudhirendar Sharma
Charge framing against 148 opposition leaders June 6
(Court Correspondent) A Dhaka court on Tuesday fixed June 6 for hearing on charge framing against 148 opposition men including Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque.
Israel’s founder tried to erase Palestinian ethnic cleansing
By Saed Bannoura
Death preferable to life at Guantanamo
By Marjorie Cohn, More than 100 of the 166 detainees at Guantanamo are starving themselves to death. Twenty-three of them are being force-fed. “They strap you to a chair, tie up your wrists, your legs, your forehead and tightly around…
By dog, what about the river?
Dr. Sudhirendar Sharma
Disaster looms as Rohingyas resist evacuation
SITTWE, Arakan State—A potential humanitarian disaster is looming in western Burma’s Arakan State after thousands of internally displaced Rohingya Muslims on Wednesday failed to agree to a government plan to evacuate them ahead of an approaching tropical storm.
Feeling betrayed: The roots of Muslim anger at America
by Steven Kull
Manmohan invites Nawaz to visit India
DHAKA: India’s prime minister Manmohan Singh Sunday congratulated Pakistani politician Nawaz Sharif on his ‘emphatic victory’ in historic elections and said he hoped for better relations.
Myanmar Muslim barricade village as attacks spread
Three Muslim men peered over a bamboo fence built recently to fortify their village in central Myanmar. They gazed across dry rice paddies towards a nearby Buddhist community, looking for rising dust, a sign of an approaching mob.
Media rush to judgment in Boston bombing
By Barry Grey
Sunshine, freedom and a little flower
Dr. Sudhirendar Sharma
The nightmare story Of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui
By Judy Bello
In praise of bad guys
Dr. Sudhirendar Sharma
A memorable trip to Padma Resort
Farzana Afroze Zerin
New bird flu strain: 5 things to know
The H7N9 strain responsible for the bird flu outbreak in China is unlike any that has previously been seen in this type of virus.
China calls Japan-US island drill `provocative’
China said on Wednesday that “provocative actions” would not sway it from defending its territory, after Japan confirmed it would conduct military drills with the United States amid tension between Beijing and Tokyo over disputed islands.
Burmese police stood by as Buddhists attacked Muslims
Video footage has emerged showing Burmese police standing by as Buddhist mobs wielding sticks and swords attack Muslims in Meikhtila – where last month more than 40 people were killed and 12,000 displaced – on the same day that the…
An ASEAN-China forum for the South China Sea
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar
Jalebi uncoiled: Forget apple, try mango instead
Dr. Sudhirendar Sharma
Pervez Musharraf on 14-day judicial remand
The anti-terrorist court in Islamabad on Saturday sent former military strongman Pervez Musharraf on a four-day-long judicial remand in the judges’ detention case.
Training engineers, not Ganga
Sunita Narain
Build your immunity system
Sometimes we may wonder why we fall sick more or less often than your relatives, friends, colleagues or neighbours.
TransPacific partnership will undermine democracy
Prof. Rodney Shakespeare
British Muslims against UK history curriculum
Muslim Council of Britain attacks new plans for teaching history in British schools, for omitting reference to Islam’s trade, cultural and military achievements
Christian Church opens doors to Muslims
On a bitterly cold and snowing afternoon in Aberdeen, the doors of St John’s Episcopal Church are open to hundreds of Muslim worshippers, arriving for daily prayers.
State of Sri Lanka’s Muslims
After a series of attacks on mosques, wild rumours about animal slaughter and an attempt to outlaw the halal system of classification, the BBC’s Charles Haviland investigates how Sri Lanka’s Muslim minority is being targeted by hardline Buddhists.
Obama’s peace antics in Israel
By Ramzy Baroud
Questioning the tyranny of development!
Dr. Sudhirendar Sharma
Regime change in Malaysia?
Dr.Chandra Muzaffar