Tamanna Jasmine Riva and Razia Sultana, president and general secretary of the BCL's Eden Mohila College unit, were accused of hall seat trading, extortion, "blackmailing students into carrying out unethical activities," and torture. There were also issues regarding the other faction of BCL.

Three pedestrians were critically injured in the violence. Nahid Mia and Morsalin were among them.

If we are to have an inclusive society, we can’t simply “cancel” those who we don’t agree with.

On April 17, 1971, the history of Bangladesh, and indeed the history of our Liberation War, took a drastic turn as the subcontinent’s map was redrawn with the emergence of a new sovereign state headed by its first government.

Sri Lanka is facing one of the worst economic crises in its history.

Since the beginning of 2022, 36 Palestinians have been killed by Israel, as revealed by the Palestinian health ministry. 

Bangla is a much tougher language to learn compared to English.

If Bitcoin is indeed a commodity, why does the Bangladesh Bank have overlying regulations on how it can be managed?

While the attack on Ukraine does not come as a surprise, given the apprehension of the West of a mass-scale attack on Ukraine since December last year, the response from these countries to the actual invasion has been stupefying, and not in a positive sense.

On April 16, Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute of India (SII) -- and part-producer of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine called Covishield -- tweeted to the President of the United States Joe Biden, asking to lift the embargo on raw material exports to vaccine makers outside the United States. His tweet and subsequent pleading by many global leaders have sent ripples across the United States, with an increasing number of US lawmakers joining calls for Biden to approve exports of vaccines, raw materials, and waive IP patents on vaccines. Biden finally agreed, approving export of raw materials and agreeing to share 60 million Covid-19 vaccines with the developing world. However, the cost of months of delay to prioritise Biden’s “America First” foreign policy, in light of India’s Covid-19 woes, provides grim reminders of the costs of American Exceptionalism.

About six years ago, when the foundation of the highly publicised game changer, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was laid, the people of Pakistan were sold a dream that the project would put them in the company of world’s prosperous people. But six years thence, the poor and middle class of the South Asian country are finding it more and more difficult to run their kitchens.

Those who were born after Muktijuddho (Liberation War), to whom do they go, to fully realize its true spirit? To answer this, we can talk about the dusty books from the libraries, memoirs written by our ancestors, or the articles printed in newspapers.

The author is an international security studies analyst, and former consultant at National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) of India.

I thought I would give this article the title “Kishore is my brother”. But I changed it to “Mushtaq is my brother”.

In 2017, UNESCO announced Bangabandhu’s March 7 speech as one of the most historic speeches in the world, worthy of being enlisted in the "Memory of the World Register”. The significance of the speech could not be clearer -- as a nation, Bangalees received a united purpose, a call-to-arms for self-determination, and a pledge to never surrender.

"This time the struggle is for our freedom. This time the struggle is for our independence."

Bangabandhu’s role in the 1952 Language Movement was not explored in detail before his unfinished memoir came to light decades after his assassination. And, it never came out so vividly before the graphic novel portrayed those stories.

Posing as the protector of democracy, the Myanmar military accused Suu Kyi’s party of vote-rigging and irregularities. However, a big question remains on what stepping stones they laid to protect democracy.

One of the most tragic deaths from the Australian Bangladeshi community occurred in 2005. The victim was a young man named Faheem Bhuiyan.

An account by photojournalist Kajol’s son.