Dr. Muhammad Yunus and the perils of a nation’s broken trust! Betrayal is among the most devastating crimes against public confidence. It does not always arrive with drawn swords or marching armies.
Dr. Muhammad Yunus and the perils of a nation’s broken trust! Betrayal is among the most devastating crimes against public confidence. It does not always arrive with drawn swords or marching armies.
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Japan is preparing to arrange 1 trillion yen ($6.35bn) in private-sector investment in Bangladesh over the next five years, marking an effort to expand commercial engagement with one of South Asia’s largest
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As South Asian diplomacy evolves, Bangladesh faces a fundamental question: can it protect its strategic independence while deepening ties with neighbouring countries and global powers? The timing of Bhutan’s king’s Dhaka meetings
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Bangladesh has spent an estimated US$4.1 billion in additional costs since late February to cushion the impact of a global energy crisis, placing mounting pressure on Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s plans to
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When Politics Fills the Cells. Since 5 August 2024, Bangladesh has been mired in a profound democratic crisis, characterised by mass arrests, overflowing prisons, and mounting concerns over civil liberties, the administration
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From October 8 to 9, 2026, Police detained 252 people in a single night during an operation against teenage gangs in Comilla District. The drive was conducted by Police from all 18
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Maheshkhali has become a test of Bangladesh’s sovereignty amid intensifying US–China rivalry in the Indo-Pacific. Dhaka must resist external pressure, protect its national interests, and pursue international partnerships on its own terms.
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Violence against Bangladesh’s Hindu minority has produced killings, attacks on homes and businesses, damage to temples and continuing fears over security and property. Whatever the motive in individual cases—religious hatred, political vengeance,
More Bangladesh has every right to prosecute those responsible for serious crimes, but justice loses its meaning when political identity becomes a substitute for evidence. Mass arrests, restrictions on peaceful political activity, prolonged
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On September 10, 2026, the formation of 50 parliamentary standing committees of the 13th National Parliament was completed. Of these, only one person from the opposition party, Deputy leader of the Opposition
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The American conspiracy will soon perish in the ruins of its own making. Before 5 August 2024, Bangladesh was like a sajano-guchano sangsar—a household painstakingly arranged after decades of sacrifice, struggle and
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Bangladesh’s journalists are facing a deepening crisis of violence, intimidation, legal harassment and surveillance, with attacks coming not only from political activists and criminal elements but also from Islamist organisations and, in
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December is emerging as a month of profound political consequence for Bangladesh—one that may finally begin to lift the veil on the full extent of the horrific political conspiracy orchestrated by the
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Nearly a year after being sidelined from one of the World Health Organisation’s most senior regional positions, former WHO South-East Asia Regional Director Saima Wazed has broken her silence over the investigations
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Saima Wazed, the World Health Organization’s Southeast Asia regional director and daughter of ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has resigned from her position following fraud investigations by the UN agency and
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