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
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana History is not a distant tale embalmed in the sepia of old photographs; it is a living, breathing
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Mohammed Ahmad Ansari, a 55-year-old Banarasi sari weaver, has spent his entire life in the congested lanes of Varanasi, the spiritual capital of India and the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra
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A former Bangladeshi beauty queen and activist says her life has been turned upside down after an alleged whirlwind romance with a Saudi diplomat ended in scandal, arrest, and public vilification. Meghna
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In recent months, a wave of commentary from across the border has painted Chittagong Port—Bangladesh’s most significant maritime hub—as a looming threat to India’s eastern frontier. This rhetoric from India surrounding Chittagong
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“Youth is the seed of tomorrow—but a poisoned seed bears only thorns.” – Adapted from Khalil Gibran Bangladesh today faces a crisis far more insidious than politics or economics: the moral collapse
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The recent surge of United States military activity in Bangladesh marks a notable shift in the security landscape of South Asia’s eastern littoral. In September 2025, Bangladesh’s Chittagong region became the focal
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Could the changes of power in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal in 2022, 2024, and 2025 resemble the violent shift at Plassey in 1757? The relevance of this question lies in historian
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Government officials in Bangladesh demand the return of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from India and a trial in Bangladesh. They accuse her of staying in power for years with assistance from
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Wipe out Jamaat-e-Islami from the sacred land of Bangladesh—those mass-liquidators, those vile merchants of religion who bathed this land in blood and desecration in 1971. They are not merely political opportunists, nor
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Bangladesh’s central bank is working to raise its foreign-exchange reserves to around $40 billion by the end of the fiscal year in June to stabilize the exchange rate, Governor Ahsan H. Mansur
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British MP Tulip Siddiq allegedly used her “special power” as a parliamentarian to pressure her aunt, former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina, into securing state-owned land for family members, prosecutors told a
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Recently, a great deal of discussion has erupted on social media and in mainstream news outlets in Bangladesh over the demolition of an old structure in the city of Mymensingh. At the
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On July 30, 2025, National Citizens Party (NCP) Convener Nahid Islam declared, “Even if (former Prime Minister) Sheikh Hasina is hanged ten times, her crimes won’t be reduced. The people of Bangladesh
More On the dark afternoon of 5–8 August 2024, Bangladesh underwent a dramatic and controversial political upheaval: Sheikh Hasina, the country’s long-standing prime minister, was unlawfully removed from power and flown into exile
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InvocationO solemn day of Monday, the twenty-first of July, in the year 2025, etched in grief upon our collective memory—when a Bangladesh Air Force F-7 BGI training jet, tail number 701, succumbed
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