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The Rule of Silence

Altaf Hossain Uzzal:
If speech is silver,
then silence is gold.
Yet not every silence

A global gall for universal brotherhood and harmony

Probir Chandra Das:
On 11 September 1893, in a packed auditorium in Chicago, a saffron-clad monk from India stood to speak. With a steady voice and folded hands, he began, “Sisters and Brothers of America.” In those five words, Swami Vivekananda created a moment that still echoes through history—a moment of warmth, unity, and deep spiritual connection. That greeting, so full of genuine love and human solidarity, brought the audience to its feet in a thunderous two-minute standing ova...

Veteran intellectual Badruddin Umar dies at 94

Eminent writer, researcher, and leftist intellectual Badruddin Umar passed away on Sunday morning at Bangladesh Specialised Hospital due to age-related complications. He was 94.

According to Jatiya Mukti Council Secretary Foyzul Hakim, Umar had been hospitalised on 22 July with shortness of breath and low blood pressure. He received treatment for 10 days before being discharged last week but fell seriously ill again and was pronounced dead at 10:05 am.

AI Doomsday Machine Is Closer to Reality

Jacquelyn Schneider saw a disturbing pattern, and she didn’t know what to make of it.

Last year Schneider, director of the Hoover Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative at Stanford University, began experimenting with war games that gave the latest generation of artificial intelligence the role of strategic decision-makers. In the games, five off-the-shelf large language models or LLMs...

How India Alienated Bangladesh

Sushant Singh

In June 2017, Indian and Chinese troops stared each other down on the windswept Doklam plateau in Bhutan, beginning a standoff that lasted for 73 days. The trigger was a Chinese road construction project that came perilously close to India’s vulnerable Siliguri Corridor—sandwiched between Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal—and brought home a chilling reality: The fate of India’s northeast could hinge on this sliver of land and the goodwill of its neighbours.
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