Pradip Kumar Dutta

The writer is a Masters in Engineering. He writes regularly in Bangladesh newspapers on history, heritage, travelling, human rights and environmental issues.

September 10, 2026

Geopolitics/Sri Lanka/United States

Jefferson Legacy Takes Centre Stage as Sri Lanka Marks US Independence Milestone

The Pathfinder Foundation and the Embassy of the United States of America in Sri Lanka have launched a lecture series marking the 250th anniversary of American independence, opening with a discussion on

Editor's Choice/News

Who Will Be Europe’s ‘Last Chance’?

Hitler was cornered in his Berlin bunker, desperate and approaching suicide, when he declared: “I am Europe’s last chance.” As a continent burned and lay devastated by his own actions, he still presented himself as the final hope for protecting

September 10, 2026

Intelligence Warnings Before Ceuta’s Unprecedented Migration Surge

Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor The Spanish Government’s decision to declassify 40 reports and communications relating to the migration crisis in Ceuta offers an

OpenAI Calls for AI Safety Rules as Its Agents Go Rogue

Business

OpenAI is calling for mandatory national artificial intelligence safety requirements in the United States, arguing that the rapid increase in AI capabilities has made

Operation Searchlight: Initiation of the 1971 Genocide

March 21, 2024

History

The Bangladesh National Assembly has declared March 25th as National Genocide Remembrance Day. Rightly so, albeit late, we could, as a nation, start officially paying tribute to the victims of the 1971

Bangladesh: The heinous jail killings of 1975

November 2, 2022

Bangladesh/History

Forty-seven years have passed by. The near and dear ones of the four most important national leaders of Bangladesh after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib are yet to receive any justice for the savage