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The People's House Returns

Dhaka, March 13 -- And so exactly a month after having held a by-and-large acceptable, free-and-fair election for the first time in at least 18 years, the country witnessed the 300 (overwhelmingly) me... Read More


Enhancing the Capacity of Elected Women Representatives of Union Parishad

Dhaka, March 13 -- The Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD), Cumilla, in partnership with WaterAid Bangladesh, successfully hosted the National Dissemination Workshop on "Orientation on the... Read More


Saleh Shibly quietly performing as PM's press secretary

Dhaka, March 13 -- Journalist AAM Saleh, widely known as Saleh Shibly, has been fulfilling duties as Press Secretary to Prime Minister Tarique Rahman. His appointment to the coveted post was announce... Read More


PTA negotiations feature in Dhaka-Jakarta discussions

Dhaka, March 13 -- Bangladesh and Indonesia on Wednesday discussed ways to expand cooperation in areas including trade and investment, energy, connectivity, and people-to-people exchanges. Both sides... Read More


Holding On to March 7

Dhaka, March 13 -- The 7th of March is a seminal date in Bangladesh's road to independence. In 1971, it was the day that a crowd estimated at several lakhs to a million gathered at the then-Racecourse... Read More


Subodh returns to Agargaon wall with strong anti-war message

Dhaka, March 13 -- The latest intervention in the "Subodh" series from the anonymous guerilla artist HOBEKI? has appeared on a wall in the Old Airport area of Agargaon in the capital. This time it is ... Read More


Are We Facing an AI Nightmare?

Dhaka, March 13 -- The small equity-research shop Citrini recently sent a panic through financial markets when it outlined a scenario in which AI ends most white-collar employment by 2028, with dire c... Read More


Iran's Energy-Warfare Strategy

Dhaka, March 13 -- As the US-Israeli war with Iran escalates, the infrastructure and transit routes that sustain global energy flows are increasingly drawing fire, rattling financial markets. But the ... Read More


Iran and America at War

Dhaka, March 13 -- America's Iran War - or Iran's America War - reveals two important facets of how ideologically-incompatible countries behave in mutual conflict. For America, Iran is too fragile a ... Read More


Modernisation's Hidden Paradox: More Freedom, Less Emotional Resilience

Dhaka, March 13 -- Recent tragedies reported in the Bangladeshi media have raised troubling questions about emotional resilience in a rapidly changing society. Several young people and students as wel... Read More