Jaishankar hands over Modi’s letter to BNP Acting chair Tarique Rahman
Dhaka, December 31 – India’s External Affairs Minister Dr. S.Jaishankar left Dhaka following a whirlwind 4-hrour visit on Wednesday. Bangladesh and India would look forward to script a new chapter in bilateral ties, in shared interests driven by pragmatism and mutual interdependence, as indeed briefly...
Chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party Khaleda Zia passes away
Dhaka, December 30 (TOB)- The Chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and three-times former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia passed away on December 30. She was 80. She breathed her last at 6am on Tuesday while undergoing treatment at the Evercare Hospital in the...
India and Bangladesh heading for a rapprochement
By P.K. Balachandran/Daily News Colombo, December 30 – India, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the Interim Government led by Dr. Muhammad Yunus, appear to have entered an informal understanding to bring back inclusive democracy to Bangladesh, put Indo-Bangla relations back on the rails and...
Deep fissures in Trump’s MAGA camp
US President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) camp is now a house divided on racial, religious and doctrinal lines.
Bangladesh’s students’ party NCP squandered its legitimacy
NCP teams up with the Jamaat-e-Islami
Sri Lankan Tamil parties urge India to press Colombo to hold provincial elections
By Veeragathy Thanabalasingham Colombo, December 28 – As usual, Sri Lankan Tamil political parties met the Indian External Affairs Minister Subramaniam Jaishankar last week at India House in Colombo and requested him to exert pressure on the Sri Lankan government to hold elections to the...
From extremism to terrorism: Lessons for Sri Lanka from Bondi Beach
Colombo, December 27 (Pathfinder Foundation) -The terrorist attack at Archer Park, Bondi Beach, on December 14, 2025, is a modern-day example of ideology-driven terrorism inspired by the so-called Islamic State. A public religious festival with about 1,000 attendees was targeted by a father-son duo operating...
Returning to Bangladesh from exile, stiff challenges await BNP leader Tarique Rahman
Bangladeshis are yearning for law and order, checks on corruption and a sense of direction from Rahman who returned from a 17 year exile on December 25 to take charge of his disabled Bangladesh National Party
Bangladeshis’ expectations belied – Tarique Rahman’s oration missed the point
By Shiamak Ali Following the victory of Awami League in the 2008 general elections, Tarique Rahman, a leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and son of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, went into forced exile in London citing security concerns and politically-motivated persecution by...
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