Less than a month after Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan created the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement (MJDA), the pact is already confronting a question that could prove more important than its founding
On July 24, 2026, Bangladesh President Mohammad Shahabuddin resigned from office after weeks of political uncertainty. Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmad Bir Bikram accepted the resignation at 5:01 pm, making it effective immediately
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History has a way of circling back to truth. However long injustice may reign, however loudly the liars may shout, the story of Bangladesh today stands poised on that eternal hinge where
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The growing influence of so-called political Islam over Bangladesh’s public institutions has become one of the defining developments of recent years. Once largely confined to partisan politics and sections of civil society,
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On July 12, 2026, a Dhaka court granted a three-day remand to seven people – Shah Amanat Sabir, Mohammad Hossain Tanim, Mohammad Junayed, Ataullah Shah, Mohammad Abidur Rahman, Mohammad Biojit, and Mohammad
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On June 26, 2026, Bangladesh’s Home Minister, Salahuddin Ahmed said the government was set to amend the law to equip officials of the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) with modern firearms, to
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On May 24, three Bangladeshis died in landmine explosions near Naikhongchhari in Bandarban , farmers and residents killed by a war that is not theirs. Fishermen have been abducted on the Naf
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The forgotten glory of Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War still beckons the nation to reclaim its founding ideals, unity, courage, and destiny. But Bangladesh has, since 5 August 2024, been unlawfully brought under
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In bold strokes: Whose Parliament? Whose Memory? Bangladesh’s memory—not America’s. On 4 July 2026, Bangladesh’s Parliament was thrust onto a historic crossroads, where the price of forgetting its sacred past became immeasurably
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As Bangladesh began to show its first signals of hard geopolitical steering, drifting away from India and embracing China, that too strategically, India must ensure that its tactical footprint and core interests
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On June 29, 2026, eight people were injured in a clash between leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) and its student’s body Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS),
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