।। Kamal Ahmed ।। Over the past decade, the most commonly enunciated phrase in our diplomatic talk was “India-Bangladesh friendship is at an all-time high”. But last week we hear... Read more
।। Monoj Dey ।। The quota reform movement is taking a new turn. So long the government had been cooperating with the students by not obstructing legitimate movements. But there were all indi... Read more
।। Paul Greening ।। Many people claim to know what’s happening in northern Rakhine State, but judging by the statements and counter-statements and different figures, no one really knows and... Read more
।। Suhadha Afrin।। The Meta has removed 50 Facebook accounts and 98 pages on allegations of spreading misleading information about the opposition. These accounts were being used to spread mi... Read more
।। Gawher Nayeem Wahra ।। The force of the cyclone has crossed the coast and entered the mainland. Signal No. 10 (27 May afternoon) was lowered to Signal No. 3. According to updates, the hav... Read more
Unveiling urban mobility in the struggles of Dhaka’s slums ।। Khadiza Akter Tasnim ।। ।। Md Khaled Saifullah ।। ।। Shamil M Al-Islam ।। In the lively centre of Dhaka, where every moment puls... Read more
।। Kamal Ahmed ।। In the face of demand by the students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) for a campus free of politics, Chhatra League responded with the declara... Read more
।। M Sakhawat Hossain ।। For the second time, three members of the Myanmar army including a captain as well as 179 members of the Border Guard Police (BGP) have fled into Bangladesh and surr... Read more
।। Saumya Bandyopadhyay ।। Bangladesh’s prime minister Sheikh Hasina has perhaps received her answer. During a visit to the United Arab Emirates four years ago, she had said bemusedly in an... Read more
।। Sir Frank Peters ।। Common sense is fake… a blatant lie. It’s not common at all! If there’s one thing in the world we’re guaranteed – apart from death and taxes – it’s the lack of c... Read more
।। Asif Nazrul ।। I often criticise the government. From the reaction of the people, I can understand that my criticism is not unjustified. For example, I took part in a BBC Bangla discussio... Read more
।। Kamal Ahmed ।। There have been all sorts of speculations in the media over the past few days about who will constitute the opposition in the newly formed 12th Jatiya Sangsad (national par... Read more
।। Yao Wen Yao Wen ।। The international political, economic and security situation has undergone profound changes in 2023. The world has just stepped out of the shadow of the COVID-19 epidem... Read more
।। Badiul Alam Majumdar ।। The Habibul Awal commission has made quite a few controversial and biased decisions until now. One of the recent such controversial decisions is to ignore active p... Read more
।। Md. Farooque Hossain ।। In Bangladesh, the quest for robust and high-speed internet connectivity remains an on-going pursuit. Amid the limitations of the current run-of-the-mill internet... Read more
Russian warships in Chattogram port: Bangladesh become a prime battleground for great power competition ।। Michael Kugelman ।। Last month, three Russian warships docked at Chattogram port fo... Read more
II Ali Riaz II While in constitutional and legal terms the formality arranged for 7 January 2024 may be described as an ‘election’, if the ongoing events are taken into consideration, it wou... Read more
।। Sumbul Rizvi ।। As the concrete road leads to a brick-laden one, and the surrounding changes from old trees and crop fields to barbed wire fences and shelters of bamboo and tarpaulin; the... Read more
।। Shamsad Mortuza ।। Numbers are magical; they can evoke both shock and awe. Much like illusionists who mesmerise audiences by making objects vanish and reappear, those dealing with numbers... Read more
।। Obaidul Hamid।। THE origin of the Palestine-Israel conflict is nothing short of an armed robbery of an unusual kind and at unimaginable scale. This is how I make sense of it: ‘You have li... Read more
