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The Iran War's Strategic Fallout

Dhaka, May 15 -- The US-Israeli war with Iran has done much more than destabilize the Middle East, trigger a surge in energy and other prices, and disrupt the global economy. It has also left US allie... Read More


BJP's Bengal win could pave the way for a Delhi-Dhaka reset

Dhaka, May 15 -- This week's historic BJP win in West Bengal brings a rare political alignment between New Delhi and Kolkata that could boost the connectivity agenda and help repair ties with Banglade... Read More


Shakib Chose Power. Now He Must Answer for It

Dhaka, May 15 -- For nearly the last two decades, Shakib Al Hasan was the main man of the Bangladesh national cricket team. The whole team seemed to be formed around him. He built the most extraordina... Read More


From Exhibition Halls to Rural Fields: The Missing Link in Bangladesh's Agricultural Modernisation

Dhaka, May 15 -- A Modern Agricultural Dream on Display The 9th Agro Bangladesh International Expo 2026 at International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB) in Dhaka highlighted cutting-edge machinery... Read More


EC plans unified code of conduct for local polls, poster-free campaigns

Dhaka, May 15 -- The Election Commission (EC) is planning to introduce a uniform code of conduct for elections to all five types of local government bodies to make the rules easier for people to under... Read More


A Kolkata Story

Dhaka, May 15 -- Beniapukur in Kolkata is a largely Muslim area, one of several minority ghettos that have been described as a "territorialised form of hyper visibility and containment". What this mea... Read More


What Bengal thinks today

Bangladesh, May 8 -- The political earthquake we have just witnessed in our neighbouring Indian state of West Bengal has not occurred in a vacuum. Rather, it is the culmination of a process that began... Read More


A new West Bengal

Bangladesh, May 8 -- India's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has just won its first election in West Bengal. It has dislodged the All-India Trinamool Congress (TMC) from 15 years... Read More


How a deadly hantavirus outbreak unfolded on a cruise ship for weeks before it was identified

Bangladesh, May 8 -- A deadly outbreak of the rare hantavirus unfolded over the course of weeks on a cruise ship that sailed from Argentina toward Antarctica and then across the Atlantic Ocean, stoppi... Read More


I do not want to die.

Bangladesh, May 1 -- An observation by Amartya Sen has become a cultural and political aphorism. In his book, The Argumentative Indian, Sen quotes from a poem by Raja Rammohun Roy to define the true h... Read More