The upcoming visit by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to India has generated a lot of excitement and expectations among the people in both Bangladesh and India.

The twice-postponed visit of Bangladesh's Prime Minister to India has been set to take place from April 7 to 10.

Why would Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fire a salvo like this ahead of her India visit in April by accusing Indian intelligence agency RAW and the US embassy of bringing down her government in 2001?

President Yahya Khan and Mujibur Rahman continued their talks today, despite several deaths yesterday in what appears to have been

Today, The Daily Star publishes a recently declassified CIA document which reflects on the tumultuous situation following Bangabandhu's speech on March 7, 1971 and apprehends an imminent crackdown by Pakistani Military.

The CIA recently made available online several thousand documents on Bangladesh's pre- and post-independence events.

Suhrawardy Udyan, or what was known as Ramna Race Course, has a close relationship with the history of Bangladesh.

A Canadian court verdict related to the Padma Bridge (PB) consultancy contact has set off widespread proclamation of vindication of the concerned Government of Bangladesh (GOB) superiors, allegations by the Bangladesh ruling regime of a conspiracy by the World Bank (WB) and Dr. Muhammad Yunus, and even demands for lawsuits against the WB for defamation.

The 12th Election Commission led by KM Nurul Huda has taken the office on February 15. This Commission has been formed by President Abdul Hamid from a list of 10 people proposed by the Search Committee appointed by Hamid after talks with 31 political parties.

Suranjit Sengupta had been a stalwart of the Awami League for the last four decades or so. An articulate parliamentarian and a vociferous constitutionalist, Mr. Sengupta had been a robust voice in favour of socialist principles.

Our MPs congratulated Tulip on her election as MP by passing a thanksgiving motion in Parliament in 2015. In the discussion on the motion, they said that they were proud of her. We can only wish that they would all follow her example of how to stand by the people.

The ruling Awami League's recent proposal for empowering the Election Commission with supervising authority over the administration during the parliamentary polls echoes with the ideas floated by the past EC led by ATM Shamsul Huda.

The ruling Awami League's proposals for limiting the jurisdiction of the election-time government to carrying out only a routine job

Bangladesh will be observing the eighth consecutive year of the present Awami League Government on January 5, 2017.

In late December, 13 Nobel Laureates including Professor Muhammad Yunus and 10 global leaders wrote an open letter to the President of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and its members decrying the Rohingya carnage in Myanmar as “amounting to ethnic cleansing”, that the crisis has “the potential for genocide” and that it “has all the hallmarks of recent past tragedies – Rwanda, Darfur, Bosnia, Kosovo”.

The history of our Election Commission may be likened to a large extent to the popular story of a monkey and a greased pole.

The dialogue led by the president seems to have offered an opportunity to bring a qualitative change in the confrontational culture of politics. Politics returned to the discussion table after a long time.

Democracy International (DI) has recently published its latest Bangladesh Opinion poll. A quick look at the results provides good news for the ruling party.

In a recent commentary piece, Mr. Mahfuz Anam shed light on the Democracy Restoration Day and outlined the demands that the then tripartite alliance between the Awami League-led 15-party coalition, the BNP-led 7-party coalition and a group of left-leaning parties, made to the nation.

Our history is full of glaring examples of how narrow political interests of successive military and political governments have undermined the fundamental spirit of our Constitution considered the fruit of the historic Liberation War.