To combat potential insurgencies before the next general election in Bangladesh in 2024, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) has been training special forces in Bangladesh and India. For the last two
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
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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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The recent dismantling of a recruitment and fundraising network linked to the Islamic State (IS) in Malaysia, predominantly involving Bangladeshi migrant workers, has shattered any lingering sense of complacency in both Southeast
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When Bangladesh’s streets erupted in protest in mid-2024, few could have predicted how swiftly Sheikh Hasina’s regime would crumble. The ousting of the prime minister last August, after years of mounting authoritarianism and growing
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On June 27, 2025, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) Secretary General Mia Golam Parwar stated that all Islamic forces in the country will soon arrive at unity, ahead of the forthcoming national election. Parwar
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor In 2020, Pakistan’s Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Ali Muhammad Khan, suggested that Donald Trump be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the Israel–UAE deal. At the
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