Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at Hasina's fiery speech targeting Yunus govt, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's life, Bhasha Andolan & revision of history books in Bangladesh.

Campaign will start on 1 February, culminating in blockade & all-day hartals on 16 & 18 February. This follows an ...

Trains were cancelled across Bangladesh on Tuesday as railway staff went on strike for higher pensions and other benefits, ...

Chief adviser of the Bangladesh interim government, Muhammad Yunus has said that the next elections in the country are likely to be held in late 2025 or mid-2026, after the ouster of the previous ...

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin made the remarks during an event where the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) handed over technical equipment needed to update the voter ...

Gideon Force was intended to aid Ethiopian rebels and hold down Italian forces in the north west of the country; Wingate interpreted this mandate as including the liberation of Abyssinia and the ...

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees called for “rapid, unhindered and uninterrupted humanitarian access” to the strip to relieve the suffering caused by war. Israel will release 735 ...

As someone representing this generation, I found deep parallels between the July uprising and the heroic struggle of Bangladesh’s liberation war in 1971. Much like the period following 1971 ...

The Zimbabwe War of Liberation is often heralded as a noble struggle against colonial oppression, yet many now argue that it represents one of the biggest frauds in human history. The irony of it all ...

The genesis of the historical animosity between Islamabad and Dhaka lies in Bangladesh’s war of liberation from Pakistan in 1971. Pakistan’s military and its allied militias fought Bengali ...

AFP After 15 months in intense conflict and more than 46,000 deaths, Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire deal to end the Gaza war, assuring complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from the besieged ...

As with the destruction of nearly every memorial commemorating either Bangabandhu or the liberation war of 1971, there is now a concerted attempt to rewrite the history of Bangladesh. The steps to ...