Shamsher M Chowdhury, BB

Clearly, Israel's political and military leadership did not do their homework on Iran.

Sri Lank's neighbours have to come to terms with the fact that AKD was the democratic choice of the mass people.

The symbolic value of the visit and its timing cannot be overemphasised, this being the first such visit since the change of guards in Dhaka on August 5.

But let's remember, this victory is just the beginning—10 percent of the journey. The real challenge lies ahead. This is where we, Sri Lankans, faltered.

Teesta has ceased to be just a river; it assumed a status of strategic importance

Although Donald Lu had visited Bangladesh more than once before the general election, this was his first visit after the polls.

The students’ protests have nothing to do with anti-Semitism, a narrative that successive Israeli governments and the powerful Jewish lobby in the US have cultivated with deadly effect.

How much of the global outrage for Gaza will impact Washington’s attitude and its policy of blind and unconditional support for Israel?

Why singularly blame bureaucrats and project directors for cost and time overruns?

The Vortex is a collage of selfless acts to help victims of the Bhola cyclone and the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.

History would show the degree of betrayal by the key players involved with the Palestinian question

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to visit India early in September.

Historically, Bangladesh has believed in the principle of safety in numbers, and for the right reasons.

Retired Indian diplomat Chandrashekhar Dasgupta’s recollection of the events of 1971, centring on the Bangladesh Liberation War as captured in his recently published book, India and the Bangladesh Liberation War:

Fifty years ago, on this very day, India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi announced her government’s decision to formally accord recognition to Bangladesh as a sovereign and an independent state.

The recent signing of an MOU between the Bangladesh government and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), affirming the latter’s willingness to help in the ongoing relocation of Rohingyas to Bhashan Char, is welcome news—albeit a couple of years delayed.

The sight of an Israeli soldier kicking a Palestinian Muslim while he is in the midst of his afternoon prayer, right in the middle of the holy month of Ramadan in Jerusalem,

To write off the acts of anarchy and insurrection that was being played out live inside the Houses of the United States Congress on January 6, as that of a few deranged, rabid, racist individual Americans would be a disastrous mistake.

Now that the Presidential debates are over, the public debates on whether there will be a change in the White House come November gathers momentum.

In “The India Way”, published by Harper Collins, India’s External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar catalogues India’s journey in the arena of its external relations over a period spanning more than seven decades.