Young student leaders fight against the odds to turn the tides in the upcoming DUCSU poll

Bangladesh’s civil-military tensions are pushing the limits

Bangladesh faces a dangerous rift between its civilian government and the military. With trust broken, whispers of intervention grow louder, threatening to unravel the democratic settlement of 1990 and plunge ...

Walls that sing: Graffiti and music in Bangladesh's Long July Revolution

How Humayun Ahmed mastered the craft of psychological horror stories

IFJ walks back statement, only to repost it with the same discredited claims

Seeking Pakistan’s apology is a just demand…it’s a geopolitical crutch as well

Bibhuranjan’s apparent suicide dissects the derision of journalism during Hasina’s authoritarian regime

Investigation

BFIU’s Shahinul linked to release of Khondokar Enayet Ullah’s “frozen” Funds

Investigators unearthed S Alam’s corrupt footprints in eight new countries

No clearance, no answers: How a controversial figure took over Dhaka North City Corporation

Shell firms, silent transfers, and missing oversight: Inside Nagad’s financial maze of corruption

The watchmen watched: Tax probe exposes Elite Security’s financial misconduct

Railway racket: How Max Group's political ties secured billions in doctored contracts

Opinion

When democracy is reduced to looting in cycles…

In 1954, East Bengal’s voters rejected the Muslim League and demanded autonomy, but political infighting, corruption, and betrayal paved the way for Ayub Khan’s dictatorship. Bangladesh’s history reveals a recurring ...

Symbolic violence and the inherent political message that it carries..

Justice for the disappeared requires respect for life

Bangladesh’s dangerous disregard for those who serve…

Bangladesh 2.0 or Bangladesh Déjà Vu?

What will be the legacy of Sheikh Mujib in Bangladesh 2.0?

Bangladesh’s democratic discourse is suffocating in a binary trap

Interview

Top BNP leader believes blocking party chiefs from becoming Prime Minister is “undemocratic”

Salahuddin Ahmed, once abducted and exiled, has reemerged as one of BNP’s strongest voices after ...

Prominent young IG Advisor rejects future of Pro-India or Pro-Pakistan politics in Bangladesh

World-renowned human rights workers document "clear" evidence of police brutalities in July Uprising

Online activists reveal how memes became a powerful dissenting tool during the stifling Awami regime

Accomplished entrepreneur urges interim government to focus on crisis management, not political rhetoric

Leader of the largest Islamist party expresses his reluctance towards the politics of vengeance

Top Indian editor says New Delhi adopts a “Wait-and-Watch” approach on Dhaka situation

Analysis

Can India trust China without losing America?

An in-depth analysis of the political rise of Islam in Bengal, from the Khalji conquest in 1205 to the Mughal legacy, colonial subjugation, and the unresolved struggle over Islam’s role ...

Why is Bangladesh still haunted by the question of Islam and secularism?

How Brazilian beef import could wreck Bangladesh’s cattle economy

India’s rare-earth gambit is a test of its multi-vector diplomacy

Our own “Red July” and the historic language of resistance

Will a Trump–Putin reset ease India’s tariff burden?

How Modi’s ‘strongman diplomacy’ left India outflanked by Trump

Life & Arts

Ahmed Sofa’s unquiet intellect and its timeless significance

Ahmed Sofa’s essay The Mind of the Bengali Muslim reveals both brilliance and limitation. Influenced ...

Kilimanjaro: The mountain that sang me upward…

The visual brilliance and lingering chill of Humayun Ahmed’s ‘Odekha Bhubon’

The literary gaze of Humayun Ahmed’s unassuming brushstrokes…

The lives of loot-born children after the end of Awami plunder..

Why the movie ‘Traitor’ stands out as a counterpoint to Hollywood's Islamophobic narratives

How Past Lives uses silence and space to speak to my soul

News

Fake cancer doctor accused of massive fraud, patient deaths, and political links

Condemnations pour in after savage attack on Nur

Citizen Initiative condemns attack on Adviser Mahfuj Alam, warns of resurgent authoritarian forces

Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam shares personal reflections on 1971, calls for honest reckoning of death toll

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