Controversies surrounding South Asian national anthems
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily news Colombo, November 11: As new nations carved out of the British Empire, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have had controversies over their national emblems such as the flag and the anthem. Some of these controversies persisted, while others died out. In...
Radical Islamists on the upswing in Bangladesh and Pakistan
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror Colombo, November 2-Radical Islamists are gaining ground in Bangladesh and Pakistan. In Pakistan, they are getting more organised, militant and terroristic, while in Bangladesh, they are expanding their ideological reach, a development which could reshape domestic electoral outcomes and relations with India....
Radical Islamists on the upswing in Bangladesh and Pakistan
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror Colombo, October 28 – Radical Islamists are gaining ground in Bangladesh and Pakistan. In Pakistan, they are getting more organised, militant and terroristic, while in Bangladesh, they are expanding their ideological reach, a development which could reshape domestic electoral outcomes and relations...
Bangladesh Jamaat-i-Islami should tender unconditional apology for its 1971 atrocities
By Abdul Kalam Azad Dhaka, October 25 (TOB) – Dhaka, October 25 (TOB) – The brutal killings, mass rapes, lootings and arson attacks committed during Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War are not up for debate. They are well-documented facts, etched in history and in the nation’s...
Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal comes under scrutiny
While most observers support the judicial process, others point to distortions and pitfalls
Student activists and the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami could stump BNP and Awami League
By Kallol Bhattacherjee/The Hindu New Delhi, October 15 – Bangladesh’s political landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation ahead of the general election which is to take place in February 2026. Student advisers and the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI), Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party, which extended support to...
Yunus the compulsive flyer – 14 foreign trips in one year
By Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan/Times of Bangladesh Colombo, October 15 – Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus has been in office for just over a year. In that short span, he has managed 14 foreign trips—almost one every month. The Nobel laureate, once hailed as the face of...
UN Rights commissioner Volker Turk urges Bangladesh to substitute fairness and reconciliation for vengefulness and revenge
Geneva, October 15 (TOB)- The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has welcomed the initiation of legal proceedings against those accused of enforced disappearances and torture under the previous regime in Bangladesh, calling it a critical step towards accountability. “This marks the first...
Sheikh Hasina – The woman who carried Bangladesh through chaos, now tried by the court of Western opinion
As Bangladesh’s most enduring leader faces global scrutiny, her legacy forces the world to confront a deeper question — can stability born of strength still be called democracy?
Bangladesh professors charged under terrorism law for holding a discussion –
By Utpal Aditya Oikya Dhaka, October 9 – On 29 August 2025, Bangladesh witnessed an incident where a former Minister, Abdul Latif Siddique, Dhaka University Professor Sheikh Hafizur Rahman, journalist Manzurul Alam, and at least 13 others were handed over to the police by a mob while...
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