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Political analyst Altaf Parvez unpacks the roots of conflict, ideological spillovers, and India’s strategic return

Bangladesh and Italy are working on a new mechanism under which the European country will hire one Bangladeshi worker for every irregular migrant repatriated from Italy.

Baroness Rosie Winterton tells The Daily Star in an exclusive interview

An international human rights activist has reminded Bangladesh authorities of the international standards as the country goes through an accountability process in the aftermath of the July uprising.

Excessive recruitment fees, low salaries, and permit costs trap Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia

BNP leader Humayun Kabir shares his views with The Daily Star

The high-level conference on the Rohingya at the UN in New York has been able to draw global attention anew on the crisis that was losing focus amid other global crises, but the level of political commitment required for a lasting solution still remains a big question.

Bangladesh will seek political commitment from the international community for Rohingya repatriation, funding, and accountability for the Rohingya genocide at the high-level conference on the Rohingyas in New York today.

Parvez Karim Abbasi discusses Bangladesh’s geopolitical balancing act

Indian international affairs expert Sreeradha Datta tells The Daily Star

In conversation with researcher Altaf Parvez

In an interview with The Daily Star, exiled Myanmar reporters discuss Rohingya plights

Transparency in party and campaign funding must be ensured so that political power cannot be used for profit or abuse, Transparency International chair François Valérian has said.

Bangladesh-Pakistan relations began to thaw after the 2024 uprising. Over the past year, three ministerial visits to Dhaka, a foreign secretary-level meeting, and two meetings between top leaders Prof Muhammad Yunus and Shehbaz Sharif have marked a significant shift from the last 15 years.

Since the repatriation deal was signed with Myanmar in November 2017, Bangladesh tried but failed to send Rohingyas back.

Shrinking international aid has cast uncertainty over schooling for thousands of Rohingya children in refugee camps, jeopardising years of progress, warns Rana Flowers, UNICEF representative to Bangladesh.

Bangladesh and Pakistan will sign five memorandums of understanding (MoUs) during the visits of Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and Commerce Minister Jam Kamal Khan this week.

Having lost her right leg in a landmine explosion, Nur Kaida, a 23-year-old Rohingya woman, now feels helpless at a refugee camp in Teknaf.

A Chinese mountaineer died while descending the world’s second-highest peak, with Pakistani rescuers were waiting yesterday for weather conditions to improve to recover her body.

Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus’s visit to Malaysia has opened new areas of cooperation – both bilateral and regional -- especially in the efforts to address Myanmar conflicts and Rohingya crisis, as the two countries committed to building a future-oriented strategic partnership.