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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...
South Africa has welcomed a move by the United States Congress to extend a key trade preference program for African countries, describing it as an...
Bangladesh’s oldest political party – Awami League is visibly approaching extinction as most of its key figures are in several foreign countries,...
History is rarely kind to societies that mistake collapse for liberation. Iran today stands at precisely such a crossroads. As nationwide protests...
More than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union ignited violent disputes across the South Caucasus, Armenia and Azerbaijan stand closer...
There are moments in foreign policy when hesitation costs more than action. Bangladesh’s interim government, led by Muhammad Yunus, appears to have...
There are wars that begin with missiles and those that begin with memos. Donald Trump’s latest economic offensive belongs firmly to the second...
The shockwaves from the forcible removal of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by the United States have yet to settle. Initial disbelief has...
US President Donald Trump has once again stirred controversy in India by making a claim that New Delhi says is factually incorrect, politically...
Bangladesh is no stranger to political turbulence. But what the country is witnessing today—the serial killing of Hindu citizens across multiple...
The death toll from the United States’ raid on Venezuela, launched to seize President Nicolás Maduro, continues to rise, exposing not only the...
The night Nicolás Maduro was captured did not unfold first on television screens or official press briefings. It erupted instead through vibrating...
Tensions in Latin America escalated sharply on January 3 after Russia’s Foreign Ministry condemned what it described as an act of “armed...
India’s call for renewed “neighborliness” in South Asia has taken on added urgency as diplomatic frictions with Bangladesh unfold against a...
As the international system approaches 2026, it does so amid persistent uncertainty. The past year underscored the fragility of global stability, as...
As the world approaches 2026, optimism is in short supply. Armed conflicts are raging across roughly 50 countries. Trade wars and tariff barriers,...
On December 14, 2025, a horrific act of violence shook Australia when two gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach, leaving 15...
Israel’s decision to formally recognize Somaliland as an independent sovereign state has sent shockwaves across the Horn of Africa, the Middle East,...
There is an old rule in politics and an older one in propaganda: if you want to weaken an idea, don’t argue against it—degrade it. Make it sound...
Niger’s decision to indefinitely bar US nationals from entering its territory marks a sharp escalation in deteriorating relations between Washington...
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