THE assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in August 1975 did not merely topple a man — it sent a shockwave through the very ...

Every December, my reading group chooses a book related to 1971. In 2015, for example, we read A. Qayyum Khan’s Bittersweet Victory: A Freedom Fighter’s Tale (2013) and a few years earlier we read ...

Sheikh Mujib wanted a one-party government and absolute power. He believed that with absolute control, he could manage ...

Bangladesh’s largest minority rights group accused the country’s interim government on Thursday of failing to protect ...

If the past indicates the future, there is considerable doubt about the stability of democracy in Bangladesh .

The shootings of young school student and a rickshaw puller by the police in Dhaka spurred a popular uprising onward ...

HASINA’S return to power in 2008 was not just the return of a leader; it was the return of something darker, more insidious.

A minority group in Bangladesh has accused Yunus-led interim government of failing to protect minority rights in the country. The group says that the interim government is using state institutions to ...

Interim government adviser Mahfuj Alam has said that acknowledging the bloodshed of this nation’s struggle and the birth of ...

DACCA: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman became President of the Republic of Bangladesh today [Jan 25] after Parliament, by ...

Former chief of army staff, the commander of Sector 3 during the Liberation War, a valiant freedom fighter, retired Major ...

Bangladesh and Pakistan are set to begin direct flight connectivity within the next few months, Dhaka’s envoy to Islamabad ...