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Four AL-affiliated activists held in Dhaka over arson, sabotage plots

Dhaka police have arrested four leaders and activists of Awami League front organisations on charges of orchestrating arson attacks, coordinating ...

04 Dec 2025 19:14 PM

Russia approves first 3D-printed reactor parts for RITM-200 unit

Afrikantov Experimental Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering, a unit of Rosatom’s Mechanical Engineering Division, has secured regulatory approval to produce ...

04 Dec 2025 17:14 PM

Why a National Task Force is Bangladesh’s first step toward ending the cycle of denial

For more than sixteen years, thousands of citizens lived under the shadow of enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, systematic harassment, and ...

04 Dec 2025 17:11 PM

Putin comes to New Delhi with war behind him and [oil] bargains ahead

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in New Delhi tomorrow on his first visit since the war in Ukraine began, and ...

03 Dec 2025 19:22 PM

We need to understand the ‘pyrophilic politics’ of the ultra right

In nineteenth-century America, a nativist political faction became known, mockingly and then officially, as the “Know Nothing” Party. This happened because ...

03 Dec 2025 19:17 PM

We probably owe Khondaker Mostaq an objective historical reassessment

During the Liberation War, he stood almost alone in recognizing the necessity of preserving the American channel. In a moment ...

01 Dec 2025 01:49 AM

Why the BNP remains Bangladesh’s safest democratic option

In the fluid terrain characterizing Bangladesh’s post-authoritarian political recovery, an overarching question looms large–-which political entity possesses the capacity to ...

28 Nov 2025 18:50 PM

The “probable” truth behind our “endless” reform failure

It didn’t take long for the illusion to collapse. In fact, even before the election schedule was drafted, a certain class ...

28 Nov 2025 02:08 AM

Russia and IAEA discuss safety and security issues at Zaporizhzhia NPP

The eleventh round of interagency consultations between Russia and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) took place in Kaliningrad, with ...

27 Nov 2025 15:40 PM

Ideology, not economics, is driving the ongoing port debate

The ongoing dispute over port leasing or appointment is essentially entirely ideological. If you are a leftist socialist, then port ...

27 Nov 2025 15:36 PM