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Is anyone buying Awami League’s crocodile tears?

During Sheikh Hasina’s 16-year long dictatorial rule, few images captured the Awami League’s mastery of performative grief more starkly than ...

02 Jan 2026 13:00 PM

A son’s farewell…and a political threshold

Tarique Rahman’s restrained conduct at Khaleda Zia’s funeral signals a shift in Bangladeshi politics, raising questions about statesmanship, BNP’s future, ...

01 Jan 2026 16:51 PM

POB urges Bangladesh to ban Indian TV channels, submits memorandum in New York

Patriots of Bangladesh (POB), a New York–based human rights organization, has called on the Bangladesh government to ban the broadcast ...

30 Dec 2025 16:23 PM

Khaleda Zia: The wall she was, the line she held

I was never a partisan of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), nor a devotee of Begum Khaleda Zia. ...

30 Dec 2025 16:21 PM

BNP’s Moyeen Khan calls upcoming election a “day of democratic revival”

Dr. Abdul Moyeen Khan, a member of the BNP Standing Committee and former minister, said on Monday that the people ...

30 Dec 2025 02:05 AM

Why governing against the far right destroyed the center in Bangladesh

When an animal senses mortal danger, a primitive circuit in the autonomic nervous system seizes control. The “fight or flight” ...

29 Dec 2025 18:25 PM

Alleged Jamaat-Shibir extortion attempt leaves youth critically injured in Chapainawabganj

A 25-year-old man was left critically injured after an alleged extortion attempt by Jamaat-Shibir activists escalated into a brutal assault ...

27 Dec 2025 21:09 PM

Tarique Rahman has a tough task on his hand: Rebuilding Bangladesh’s broken social contract

After seventeen years in exile, Tarique Rahman has come home. His return has drawn a level of public attention—domestic and ...

27 Dec 2025 17:12 PM

Bangladesh killing miscast as communal violence. Police cite criminal extortion dispute

Reports published by sections of the Indian media that described the killing of a Hindu man in Bangladesh’s Rajbari district ...

25 Dec 2025 22:29 PM

The homecoming that must impose control…and restore restraint

Tarique Rahman’s return is shaping up to be the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s most consequential moment on the campaign trail. ...

24 Dec 2025 22:15 PM