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Hypertension now Bangladesh’s top disease as experts urge bigger budget for free medicines

Hypertension has emerged as the most prevalent disease in Bangladesh, prompting health experts to call for increased government funding and ...

13 May 2026 17:35 PM

Socialist Student Front demands education reform, democratic campuses at Dhaka rally

Leaders of the Socialist Student Front (SSF) on Tuesday demanded sweeping reforms in Bangladesh’s education sector, accusing successive governments of ...

13 May 2026 17:33 PM

Ghanada’s republic of wit, tall tales….and fish cutlets

In the boarding house at 72 Banamali Naskar Lane, somewhere in the smoky, argumentative geography of north Calcutta, a tall ...

13 May 2026 17:30 PM

In Bangladesh, knowledge is never neutral

Across the Global South, especially in countries like Bangladesh that sit at the receiving end of neo-imperial extraction, there is ...

13 May 2026 00:55 AM

How Muslims lost electoral leverage in India

For decades India’s Muslims occupied an unusual place in the republic’s electoral calculation as they were too dispersed to dominate ...

11 May 2026 23:24 PM

The Awami League’s unmaking of Rabindranath Tagore in Bangladesh

The deification of Rabindranath Tagore in Bangladesh was never about literature; it was about politics. ...

08 May 2026 18:33 PM

Bangladesh’s most ‘indispensable’ outsider

There are political operators who rise through ideology, and there are bureaucrats who rise through obedience. Then there is Dr ...

07 May 2026 20:26 PM

Bangladesh voted against the inevitable. WB didn’t

The churn of elections in West Bengal has, once again, cast a revealing light across the border, onto Bangladesh—and onto ...

05 May 2026 14:26 PM

The end of the buffer

For decades, West Bengal was the delta where the Hindu-nationalist tide of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) invariably broke. ...

04 May 2026 21:23 PM

Bangladesh’s lethal measles resurgence remains poorly explained, demanding a rigorous and impartial investigation

Measles, once thought a vanquished foe, is staging an unnerving global return. Across continents, cases are climbing and deaths are ...

03 May 2026 16:36 PM