The Mecca Pact and the Price of Choosing a Side Bangladesh has spent decades trying to do something that is increasingly difficult in a divided world: maintain good relations with everyone without becoming strategically dependent on anyone. Its relationships with India and China are central to its security and economy. The United States and Eu...
Since August 2024, political instability, economic pressures, declining employment in the industrial sector, public health risks, rising poverty and climate-related disasters have compounded one another in Bangladesh. According to information from various sources, the humanitarian impact during this period has reached significant levels acros...
On 21 August 2004, several military grade grenades were hurled at an Awami League rally in Bangabandhu Avenue, Dhaka. Twenty-four leaders and activists of the Awami League and its associate bodies were killed and over 300 others suffered splinter injuries in the August 21 attack. Among the dead were Ivy Rahman, then Mohila Awami League Chief and...
Not long ago, Bangladesh had largely put chronic load-shedding behind it. Reliable electricity was no longer a daily gamble for most households and factories. Today, that modern reality has been brutally extinguished. Under the newly elected BNP government, building directly upon months of fatal policy inertia inherited from the preceding in...
15 August 1975, 21 August 2004, and 5 August 2024 are not isolated tragedies. They mark a half-century assault by the same anti-liberation forces to dismantle a pluralistic nation. Three dates stand out in Bangladesh’s post-independence history like open wounds: 15 August 1975, 21 August 2004, and 5 August 2024. They are not coincidences....
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