Syed Badrul Ahsan – The News Times

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3rd Anniversary 2024

- Syed Badrul Ahsan - March 13, 2024March 13, 2024

On the third anniversary of The News Times, a conversation on the role of the media becomes necessary. The role of the media in the present-day world cannot be ignored or overlooked. Indeed, this role has been manifesting itself over the last many decades, not just in Bangladesh but around

Padma Bridge: a metaphor for focused leadership

Special Supplement

- Syed Badrul Ahsan - June 25, 2022June 27, 2022

The clear mood of happiness being felt in the country over the completion and inauguration of the Padma Bridge is understandable. Few have been the occasions when we in Bangladesh have been able to undertake such a gigantic task and accomplish it on our own. Let it not be forgotten that

26 March 1971 . . . and after

- Syed Badrul Ahsan - March 26, 2022March 27, 2022

The terse, grim words went out, ‘Big bird in cage. Little birds have flown.’ It was from a Pakistan army officer to his superiors in Dhaka cantonment. It was about the arrest of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the early hours of March 26, 1971 soon after the Bengali leader had

All those first-year challenges . . .

1st Anniversary Part-1

- Syed Badrul Ahsan - March 9, 2022March 9, 2022

In the region of social media, of internet news hawking, it is refreshing to go back to old-fashioned journalism. We mean, of course, journalism which comes in black and white. We mean, certainly, that moment of relaxation tempered by inquiry about the world when we can pick up a newspaper

VICTORY DAY: Remembering a Pakistani talk show

- Syed Badrul Ahsan - December 16, 2021December 17, 2021

There are certain interests that keep me going. And they all have to do with politics, with foreign affairs, indeed with specific countries and regions. That is how my interest in Africa, in American foreign policy, in the survival of Indian democracy keeps growing. One of my abiding interests is

Bangabandhu . . . our North Star

- Syed Badrul Ahsan - August 15, 2021August 15, 2021

On a night of the full moon, I sat by the resting place of the Liberator. The breeze stirred the grass on the grave. All night long I sat and prayed and wondered. Here I was, at the grave of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the great man we will eternally