America

Living on the bridge: My life between East and West

I was born in Bangladesh, a place defined not just by geography but by rhythm.
7 June 2025, 04:00 AM

Shutki’s trip to Detroit: How shutki pizza is winning American hearts

The story of shutki pizza is one of cultural exchange and culinary innovation, showcasing how traditional flavours can find new expressions and appreciation in diverse contexts.
27 June 2024, 08:53 AM

Director, lead actress to attend 'Kajol Rekha' screening in Khulna today

A month since its premiere, "Kajol Rekha", helmed by the renowned director Gias Uddin Selim, continues to grace the silver screen. The film has not only received acclaim from the audience but garnered widespread admiration.
16 May 2024, 05:41 AM

To be treated as equals to the West, the Global South must decolonise its minds

In an over-crowded planet, the system is inherently unstable when we attempt to resolve differences via conflict and war
17 January 2024, 01:00 AM

Biden’s backing of Israel will come home to roost

The infrastructure of Gaza lies in ruins, leaving civilians to scramble for safety among the debris of their previous lives.
13 November 2023, 03:00 AM

Why did the US almost shut down?

I heard that the US government was about to shut down because it was running out of money. How is that possible?
5 October 2023, 10:00 AM

Pegula says potential Saudi deal can help WTA ensure equal prize money

American world number four Jessica Pegula said doing business with Saudi Arabia can help the WTA in its quest to ensure equal prize money but it will carefully evaluate following other sports to the Gulf state.
2 July 2023, 07:07 AM

Nadeem Zaman’s new novel takes ‘The Great Gatsby’ to Dhaka

To be published by Hachette India in early 2023 and meant to be circulated exclusively in South Asia, the novel is “a story of passion, decadence, infidelity, privilege, identity, and the many confounding faces of love and loss in contemporary Dhaka.
30 November 2022, 12:00 PM

America’s relations with Pakistan serving none of them: India

India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has opined that America's relationship with Pakistan has "not served" either of the two countries.
26 September 2022, 06:11 AM

At a glance: America's classroom gun massacres in 2 decades

Nineteen students and two teachers were shot dead Tuesday when an 18-year-old gunman opened fire at their Texas elementary school, the latest in the United States' relentless cycle of school mass shootings.
25 May 2022, 06:59 AM

Star Lifestyle’s ‘5 top picks’ from the 2021 Met Gala

Like everything else, no bad situation lasts for long and as the world heals itself in its own pace, one of the most coveted fashion event of the year, the MET GALA 2021, finally took place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMOA) on September 13, with the exclusive theme In America: A Lexicon of American Fashion.
15 September 2021, 12:46 PM

How “American” Is American Pop Culture?

Welcome to Art of Re-packaging Cultural Elements 101.
23 June 2021, 18:00 PM

Melania Trump for president

America, of US fame, like most countries including Bangladesh, is a nation that thrives on “firsts”. From Benjamin Franklin's discovery in 1747 of the principle of electric charge conservation
14 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Should America ever apologise?

Earlier this month, academics at the American University in Cairo declared no confidence in the institution's president, following his decision to grant US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo an uncontested platform for a partisan foreign-policy speech last month.
20 February 2019, 18:00 PM

With eye on Afghanistan talks, Trump vows to stop 'endless wars'

US President Donald Trump tells Americans his administration has accelerated talks for a political settlement in Afghanistan and would be able to reduce US troops there as negotiations advance to end America's longest war.
6 February 2019, 13:01 PM

George HW Bush dies

Former US president George HW Bush, who guided America through the end of the Cold War and launched the international campaign to drive Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait, died yesterday at his home in Houston. He was 94.
1 December 2018, 18:00 PM

India struggles to recover American killed by tribe

Indian authorities have said that it may take "some days" to recover the body of an American killed in a hail of arrows shot by a tribe untouched by modern civilisation.
22 November 2018, 08:02 AM

EU's security must no longer depend on US

French President Emmanuel Macron says that he would put forward new proposals for the European Union to boost its security, saying the bloc must stop depending on American might.
27 August 2018, 18:00 PM

Trump welcomes back Americans freed by N Korea

A plane carrying three Americans released by North Korea landed at a military base bear Washington early today to be welcomed by US President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania.
10 May 2018, 07:29 AM

America's grim reality of gun violence

On the night of October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock, from his hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, sprayed bullets at 22,000 concertgoers, killing at least 59 people and injuring more than 500 in the deadliest mass shooting in US history.
16 November 2017, 18:00 PM