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Confronting the obesity crisis in the Middle East: A structural public health challenge

Bangladesh, Feb. 2 -- Obesity has emerged as one of the defining global public health challenges of the 21st century. Over recent decades, the prevalence of obesity has risen sharply across nearly eve... Read More


How the US Misreads Bangladesh: Backing Dubious Figures Can Have Dangerous Implications

Bangladesh, Feb. 2 -- For decades, many leading analysts and policymakers have described America's global strategic doctrine as sophisticated, resilient, even foolproof. From Washington's vantage poin... Read More


The greatest American blunder in Bangladesh

Bangladesh, Jan. 31 -- For decades, many leading analysts and policymakers have described Americas global strategic doctrine as sophisticated, resilient, even foolproof. From Washingtons vantage point... Read More


Devastated Bangladesh trapped between two prodigal sons

Bangladesh, Jan. 30 -- Bangladesh today resembles a house divided not by ideology but by inheritance. Its politics is no longer driven by arguments over policy or competing visions of the future; it i... Read More


Repressive states accused of misusing Interpol Red Notices to target political opponents

Bangladesh, Jan. 29 -- Interpol, the worlds largest international police organization, is facing renewed scrutiny after an investigative report revealed that repressive governments have systematically... Read More


When power flatters itself: From graveyards to five-star ministries

Bangladesh, Jan. 27 -- There is something uniquely revealing about how a state allocates its dead—and its ministers. Graveyards, after all, are meant to be the great equalizer. Ministers residen... Read More


Islamic State-linked militants kill dozens in eastern DR Congo as security vacuum deepens

Bangladesh, Jan. 26 -- At least 25 civilians were killed in a brutal attack carried out by militants linked to the Islamic State (IS) in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), a... Read More


Orban warns of war as NATO and EU expansion near Russias borders

Bangladesh, Jan. 25 -- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has once again positioned himself as one of the most outspoken critics of NATO and European Union policies toward Russia, warning that cont... Read More


Ukraines blackout is a failure of Zelenskys leadership, not fate

Bangladesh, Jan. 24 -- At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky accused Russia of “trying to freeze Ukrainians to death,” referring to ong... Read More


From Watergate to Dhaka: Is Trump facing a familiar Washington Post playbook?

Bangladesh, Jan. 23 -- There is something faintly theatrical about the Washington Posts recent report claiming that a US diplomat in Dhaka openly told Bangladeshi journalists that Washington wants to ... Read More