A real-life incident mirroring the Bengali film Aynabaji, a thriller about a professional imposter drawn into a dangerous web of deceit, has unfolded in Gazipur, a city in central Bangladesh, where a young man was jailed in place of the actual accused in a forest department case.
President Donald Trump’s administration sent another 31 citizens of Bangladesh back to the South Asian country on Monday.
Research findings released by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies found that river erosion has become a major driver of full household migration in coastal areas of Bangladesh, accounting for 27.41 percent of relocations.
Seven fishermen were abducted on Sunday in the Sundarbans after what survivors described as an armed pirate attack in the Malancha River in the Satkhira range. The incident occurred near the Hanskhali, Chelakata, and Hetalbuni canals. Returning fishermen Fozer Ali and Sabuz Mia said ten armed kidnappers surrounded their group while they were catching crabs […]
The Donald Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy places India at the center of the United States’ Indo-Pacific plans, framing New Delhi as a key partner in balancing China’s economic and military ambitions. The document says the United States must “continue to improve commercial (and other) relations with India” to strengthen regional security and deepen […]
India’s forced return of Sonali Khatun, a nine-month-pregnant woman wrongly deported to Bangladesh, exposes a startling failure of basic governance.
A pregnant Indian woman who was deported to Bangladesh despite holding Indian documents returned to West Bengal on Friday after a Indian Supreme Court directive.
Indian external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina must decide whether she will continue staying in India after fleeing a mass uprising last August. He told NDTV at the HT Leadership Summit that Hasina “came here in a certain circumstance,” adding that those circumstances remain central to her situation.
Muhammad Yunus deserves strong criticism for promoting and producing a video that glorifies Khaleda Zia while ignoring the documented failures of her administration. By endorsing a narrative that calls her an “uncompromising leader” and praises her “etiquette, courtesy, firmness, foresight, and wisdom,” Yunus casts aside the fundamental fact that Bangladesh was ranked the most corrupt […]
A new video produced under the government of Muhammad Yunus is drawing criticism for portraying former prime minister Khaleda Zia as an icon of moral integrity despite extensive evidence of corruption during her administration. The video describes Zia as “a solitary Sherpa in Bangladesh’s politics” and claims she was “adorned with the title of uncompromising […]
