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

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

Donald Trump’s new tariffs on India have unexpectedly strengthened New Delhi–Moscow ties, as Ajit Doval’s visit to Russia signaled deeper cooperation amid a shifting global order. With a Trump–Putin summit ...

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

How Humayun Ahmed mastered the craft of psychological horror stories

To truly move forward, Bangladesh must confront the ‘cult of Bangabandhu’

Last monsoon we broke the fear, but not the system that has witnessed a rot within for decades..

Why shouldn’t the Awami League be allowed to participate in the next election? Golam Mortoza explains it bluntly…

Investigation

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

How a2i project of Awami League government was used for collective looting

Opinion

‘New boys in town’ are disrupting Bangladesh’s criminal equilibrium

Mikail Hossain examines Bangladesh’s entrenched corruption, where crime operates as a closed syndicate, warning that a new wave of middle-class youth turning to extortion threatens to collapse the fragile “functioning ...

Netra News’s Yunus critique reads like an empty lecture

The July Declaration meant to awaken, not to archive…and Mahfuz Anam misses that point

Bangladesh has endured an era of collapse..will it begin an era of creation?

‘This time, we belong’: The Bangladeshi diaspora’s July uprising reclamation

Delhi’s ‘slip’ is the truth: Bangladesh ‘owns’ the Bangla language

In Bangladesh, power is a racket disguised as governance

Interview

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

Explore Mahfuj Alam's mysticism and strategic influence in post-uprising Bangladesh. In this exclusive interview, he ...

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

Prominent U.S. journalists foresee reduced checks and balances under Trump’s second term

Analysis

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

Md Sazzad Amin analyses the Trump–Munir episode and its fallout, arguing that India’s personality-driven diplomacy under Modi has left it strategically exposed, diplomatically isolated, and vulnerable to both Pakistan’s manoeuvres ...

How an oil-soaked trade dispute could tilt the next global order

In the ongoing tariff war with the US, India’s rebound diplomacy risks strategic whiplash

How Bangladesh never gained its cultural sovereignty

USA’s proposed tariffs on Bangladeshi exports: Where lies the pitfalls of Trump’s push for a “great deal”

Malnourished minds: The hidden crisis in Bangladesh’s university dining halls

The ‘liquid society’ that Awami League built and a generation that it swallowed..

Life & Arts

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

Shakhawat Hossen reflects on Humayun Ahmed’s enduring magic through Odekha Bhuban, an eight-episode TV series ...

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

Snow, silence, and solitude: The beautiful desolation of Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Inside the landed gentry of the ‘United Republic of Gulshan’

News

BNP’s Moyeen Khan calls 2008 polls ‘pre-engineered’

Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam calls for honest reassessment of Mujib era

BNP’s Zahid Hossain warns of ‘footsteps of authoritarianism’ amid threats to halt polls

Kazakhstan begins site surveys for first high-capacity nuclear power plant

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