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
There is a particular kind of hypocrisy that comes dressed in the language of law. India has spent decades presenting itself to the world as South Asia’s responsible anchor a democratic heavyweight
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India Bangladesh relations were placed on an even keel after Bangladesh Nationalist Party [BNP] government was elected to power and party leader and heir Mr Tarique Rahman adopted an enlightened approach after
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In the refined idiom of jurisprudence! The term “shall” wields commanding authority of the highest order, elevating a mere expression into an obligatory mandate. More clearly, in legal parlance, the word “shall”
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Pakistan and Bangladesh have taken a significant step toward formal security cooperation, signing what is effectively the first publicly acknowledged bilateral security framework between the two countries since the political upheaval that
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India’s latest dispute with Bangladesh over alleged “illegal immigrants” has exposed growing contradictions between New Delhi’s regional rhetoric and its actual conduct toward neighbouring states. For years, India has presented itself as
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Saint Martin’s Island, a diminutive coral isle in the north-eastern Bay of Bengal, lies nine kilometres south of the Cox’s Bazar–Teknaf peninsula, marking Bangladesh’s southernmost edge. Barely three square kilometres in area,
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Wings of servitude! A grossly slavery treaty! An egregiously servile accord, this treaty reeks of subjugation and ignominy, reducing sovereignty to a hollow illusion. It binds the weaker party in chains of
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Diplomacy, as Winston Churchill once observed, is “the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.” It is a craft of nuance, restraint,
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A ceremony has been held in Bangladesh to mark the beginning of nuclear fuel loading into the first unit of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, the country’s first-ever nuclear power facility. The
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Editorial Sheikh Hasina, though ultimately unseated amid public fury and shifting political winds—abetted in part by external actors—left behind something far more enduring than her tenure: continuity. Her flagship undertakings did not
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On April 9, 2026, the Jatiya Muktijoddha Council (Amendment) Bill, 2026 (JAMUKA Amendment Bill), introduced by the Liberation War Affairs Minister Ahmed Azam Khan, was passed in the Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament) of
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On April 6, 2026, unknown miscreants attacked Minhaj Uddin, an activist of the Bangladesh Jatioatabadi Jubo Dal, the youth wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), in the Dighi Par area of
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History cannot be erased! Constitutional betrayal will not go unpunished, and reckoning in Bangladesh is inevitable! In the annals of nations, there are moments when power seeks not merely to govern but
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In the shifting, often turbulent theatre of Bangladesh’s politics, moments arise that test not merely governments, but the very soul of the Republic. The recent move to transform a so-called interim anti-terror
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In India’s volatile electoral landscape, a new and troubling weapon has emerged: artificial intelligence deployed not merely for persuasion, but for polarisation. An investigation by Bellingcat has found that social media accounts
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