expand_moreexpand_lessexpand_moreexpand_less
|
 |
M A HossainBlitz |
By any reasonable measure, the past two weeks have not gone according to plan in Washington or Tel Aviv. When Donald Trump remarked in a recent...
Gold has long been considered one of the world’s most valuable and stable commodities. It is used in jewelry, financial reserves, and modern...
Senegal’s parliament has approved a controversial bill that significantly strengthens the country’s already strict laws against same-sex...
A years-long legal and geopolitical dispute between the United States and Türkiye has reached a significant turning point after the US Justice...
The quiet withdrawal of United Nations peacekeepers from two monitoring sites along the Sudan–South Sudan border may appear to be a limited...
Politics, especially in South Asia, often moves with a curious mix of drama and contradiction. Bangladesh today appears to be experiencing exactly...
The recent decision by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) government under Prime Minister Tarique Rahman to withdraw five ambassadors appointed...
Politics in South Asia rarely moves in straight lines. It moves in circles, sometimes spirals—alliances forming in the shadows, enemies turning into...
In diplomacy, visits are rarely just visits. They are signals—sometimes subtle, sometimes unmistakable—about the direction of geopolitical winds....
Authorities in Taiwan and Singapore have taken significant steps in an expanding international crackdown on the Cambodia-based conglomerate Prince...
The Nobel Peace Prize is draped in moral grandeur. It is presented as humanity’s highest affirmation of fraternity, reconciliation, and moral...
The recent decision granting Muhammad Yunus a year of VVIP security privileges—complete with multi-tiered state protection typically reserved for...
As geopolitical tensions ripple across global energy markets, India finds itself once again recalibrating its strategic oil procurement framework. A...
The European Union’s long-delayed “Made in Europe” plan is no longer just an industrial policy debate inside Brussels. It has evolved into a...
An officer of the Bangladesh Army is rarely just one thing. In the morning he may be appointed at Trust Bank Limited, signing off on financial...
In the aftermath of the recent interim administration, a wave of written complaints has reportedly been submitted to the Anti-Corruption Commission...
A leading international watchdog has sounded the alarm over what it describes as a sweeping campaign of arbitrary arrests and violent repression in...
There is an old joke in political circles — one that is darkly funny precisely because it is so reliably true — that power is never really lost....
The recent interview published in Dhaka-based Bangla newspaper Kaler Kantho has placed Bangladesh at the center of an extraordinary constitutional...
While it is said, power tests a man – it reveals not only what he believes, but whom he believes in – and today, the question before Prime...
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman assumes office at a moment unlike any other in Bangladesh’s post-independence history. The country has known...
There are moments in a nation’s history when a signature becomes heavier than a speech, heavier even than an election. Bangladesh may have just...
Politics in Bangladesh has rarely been a gentle craft. It has been a battlefield. Victory has meant annihilation. Defeat has meant persecution. For...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has often spoken of building “people-to-people” bridges with Bangladesh. It is a noble phrase. But diplomacy, like...
Politics, if it is to mean anything at all, must eventually confront reality. Campaign slogans dissolve quickly in the acid of governance. Electoral...
There are elections that merely change governments. And then there are elections that change a nation’s mood. The 13th National Assembly Election...
Nations rarely turn on a single speech, a single election, or a single personality. But there are moments when history seems to compress itself into a...
Photo caption: Sultan Ahmad bin Sulayem, the Chairman of DP World of the United Emirates (UAE), and also the Chairman of the Ports, Customs, and Free...
The FBI’s conclusion that it found no evidence of a Jeffrey Epstein–run sex-trafficking network involving powerful figures is not the ending many...
There is a recurring lesson in political history, one that parties learn too late and nations pay for dearly: dynasties rot faster than institutions....
Every election season produces its own cottage industry of speculation. Who will win, who will lose? Who will defect at the last minute. Bangladesh is...
The legacy of Jeffrey Epstein continues to reverberate through American politics, long after his death in a New York jail cell in 2019. Each new...
There is something uniquely reckless about waging political war on your own country’s foreign relations while enjoying the protections of...
By any reasonable measure, the Indian Ocean has become one of the world’s most crowded strategic theatres. Sea lanes that carry the bulk of global...
Obesity has emerged as one of the defining global public health challenges of the 21st century. Over recent decades, the prevalence of obesity has...
For decades, many leading analysts and policymakers have described America’s global strategic doctrine as sophisticated, resilient, even foolproof....
Bangladesh today resembles a house divided not by ideology but by inheritance. Its politics is no longer driven by arguments over policy or competing...
Interpol, the world’s largest international police organization, is facing renewed scrutiny after an investigative report revealed that repressive...
There is something uniquely revealing about how a state allocates its dead—and its ministers. Graveyards, after all, are meant to be the great...
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...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has once again positioned himself as one of the most outspoken critics of NATO and European Union policies...
At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky accused Russia of “trying to freeze Ukrainians to...
There is something faintly theatrical about the Washington Post’s recent report claiming that a US diplomat in Dhaka openly told Bangladeshi...
Iranian authorities are facing grave allegations that security forces demanded large payments from families in exchange for returning the bodies of...
In politics, symbolism is never accidental. Leaders may claim innocence, coincidence, or logistical necessity, but the choices they make—what they...
For more than two decades, analysts, strategists, and dissident thinkers have argued that the post–Cold War international system was living on...
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has declared that the Islamic Republic has “defeated” the United States following the violent...
The United States has unveiled a sweeping new round of sanctions against senior Iranian security officials and international financial networks,...
Despite dramatic rhetoric, military spectacle, and bold claims from Washington, America’s largest oil companies are signaling that Venezuela remains...
British authorities have launched a major investigation into alleged large-scale fraud and bribery linked to Home REIT, a UK-listed social housing...
login
who are we?
contact us
qosheapp
