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
Editorial The recent influx of Bangladeshi immigrants into the suburban zones of Colombo, particularly around Katunayake and its adjacent environs near Bandaranaike International Airport, demands urgent and dispassionate scrutiny. What has thus
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Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been formally charged with crimes against humanity over her alleged role in the violent suppression of mass protests that shook the country last year, prosecutors
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“The black will take no other hue.The devils will not heed scripture.Let justice not be a dream deferred.” On 27 May 2025, Bangladesh’s Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of the so-called
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Alas, Bangladesh! We won you through rivers of blood in 1971—a nation born of sacrifice and unyielding resolve. Yet today, brought low by the colossal misdeeds of Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus and
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Bangladesh has cancelled a $21 million defense contract with India’s state-owned shipbuilder Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE), signaling a further deterioration in relations between the two South Asian neighbors. The
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On May 13, 2025, Bangladesh announced its conditional support for an UN-led humanitarian corridor into Myanmar’s embattled Rakhine State. The declaration came after intense backchannel negotiations between Dhaka, Naypyidaw, and key UN
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo An increasing number of Bangladeshi nationals are reportedly using Sri Lanka as a transit point in their attempt to migrate illegally to other countries, raising serious concerns
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Last July, a powerful student-led uprising in Bangladesh toppled the authoritarian, corrupt government led for 15 years by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Bangladesh now shows modest signs of democratic recovery. Months into its tenure,
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In the deep folds of South Asian geopolitics lies a fragile corridor, a lifeline for the Indian Union – the Siliguri Corridor, infamously termed the “Chicken’s Neck”. This slender, vulnerable strip of
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The current regime, under the leadership of Dr. Muhammad Yunus, ascended to power through a military coup d’état staged between August 5 and 8, 2024. This insidious takeover was orchestrated by the
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Bangladesh has formally demanded an apology from Pakistan for the “atrocities” committed during the 1971 Liberation War. This issue, along with unresolved financial claims, was raised during the first Foreign Office Consultations
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More than half a century after the Liberation War of 1971, the blood-soaked memories of genocide and betrayal remain vivid in Bangladesh’s collective conscience. The nation once dreamt of healing through justice—but
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Tulip Siddiq, the Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate, has strongly denied any wrongdoing after Bangladeshi authorities issued an arrest warrant in connection with corruption allegations. The allegations relate to claims that
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In the arena of political manipulation, no weapon is as quietly effective, nor as deceptively simple, as repetition. What begins as a whisper of deceit, when echoed persistently and with precision, soon
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The portends for Bangladesh in 2025 are grim, while dangers of State failure appear unlikely for now, but the failing nature of the Interim Administration in multiple areas- relations with India, law
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