India is applying its own framework of sectarian politics to interpret and represent Bangladesh.
Michael Kugelman discusses the implications of a second Trump presidency for Bangladesh with The Daily Star.
Republicans took over the Senate, retaking the chamber for the first time in four years. The House is also poised to be Republican.
What we're witnessing now in the Middle East is a zero-sum game.
Nasrallah and Hezbollah have thrived with an image of invincibility after confronting Israel in 2006.
BJP's media allies demonstrated the lengths to which they would go to mask India's domestic challengers under Modi's leadership.
When she first heard about the infamous extradition bill on March 31 this year, Adrienne, a 24-year-old Hong Kong national, had lost hope.
This year, on August 14 and 15, Independence Day of Pakistan and India, celebrations were tainted with the political tensions that followed the Bharatiya Janata Party led Indian Government’s decision on August 5, 2019 to abrogate Article 370 and Article 35a, that granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, including the right to have its own constitution and its own flag, and residents’ rights and privileges, respectively.
In the summer of 1945, a jittery premonition marked the lives of the citizens of Hiroshima, as B-29 super fortresses—planes that the Japanese locals called B-San or Mr.B—had been stationed in the northeast corner of the fan-shaped city.
About a month back, a 20-year-old man—a university student—was accused of sexual harassment and assault by multiple girls who came forward on social media. Following the circulation of posts exposing his alleged behavior, he faced, at max, a blast of “angry” emojis and hateful comments.
We might commonly perceive cyber-security as a high-profile issue concerning governments and large corporations.
Four years ago, when I stepped onto American soil for college, I quickly learned, somewhere in small talk, the rhetorical question “Where are you originally from?” and the phrase “Go back to your country” were vintage stocks of an evil market called racism.
The truth is, we, as a society, have failed: we haven’t found a solution to the pervasive rape culture in Bangladesh—over 630 women have been raped in the last 6 months (Ain O Salish Kendra)—because we haven’t been addressing the problem in the first place.
For Bangladesh—one of the most densely populated nations in the world (1,252 people per square kilometre according to online publication Our World in Data, led by economist Max Roser)—overpopulation is one of the most fundamental concerns.
The Internet may, at first, seem like a safe haven as it makes it easier for all of us to share the most personal information.
Lately, it’s been nerve-shattering to follow American news outlets where the phrase—“detained child migrants”—is starting to mirror vicious buzzwords. Scareheads like “hundreds of migrant children held in internment camps” regularly precede a grim catalogue of
