Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) supporters gather for a rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu Advertisement Bangladesh will be voting in national elections in January 2024. Leaders of both, the ruling Awami League (AL) and the opposition parties are claiming that the people are supporting them. In the absence … Read more
The Pulse | Society | South Asia The Asian Games offer a preview of what could soon be coming to the Olympics. That’s surely the case with cricket. Advertisement The Asian Games offer a preview of what could soon be coming to the Olympics. That’s surely the case with cricket, which seems headed to the Olympic program as soon … Read more
Advertisement Bangladesh is just a few months away from its next general election, but the ruling Awami League (AL) and the opposition parties are locked in a disagreement over the administration of the election. While the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) wants elections under a non-partisan caretaker government, as they believe that elections under Prime … Read more
Advertisement French President Emmanuel Macron witnessed the signature of a deal Monday to facilitate loans to Bangladesh aimed at infrastructure development, as well as a letter of intent to provide the South Asian country with an earth observation satellite system. This came during Macron’s two-day visit to Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, where he met with Prime … Read more
Advertisement In May, just days after my article in The Diplomat shed light on the perplexing situation surrounding Dil Mohammed, a prominent Rohingya community spokesperson and advocate, he was suddenly imprisoned in Bandarban jail in Bangladesh. This development came after months of silence, with neither news nor official statements about his situation following his abduction … Read more
Advertisement Bangladesh is due to vote in general elections in January 2024. Opposition parties are threatening to boycott the election if the Awami League government does not meet their demand for elections under a caretaker government. The opposition’s protest rallies have been peaceful so far, but this could change in the coming weeks and months, … Read more
Advertisement Within foreign policy, domestic variables play a vital role. We have seen this in Bangladesh-India relations before. A mural in the new Indian Parliament building that was termed by a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) minister as depicting “Akhand Bharat” (Undivided India) caused Bangladesh’s government to ask for an explanation from India’s Ministry of External … Read more
Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, founder-manager of the Grameen Bank, Bangladesh, at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 29, 2009. Credit: Wikipedia/World Economic Forum Advertisement More than 170 global leaders and Nobel laureates have urged Bangladesh’s prime minister to suspend legal proceedings against Muhammad Yunus, who was awarded the Nobel … Read more
Advertisement A Philippine university professor who became a peace negotiator and helped ease decades of Muslim insurgency violence in her country and an Indian doctor who chose to work in a far-flung rural region to reach poor cancer patients desperately in need of medical help were among those who won this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards … Read more
Advertisement In June 2023, the Jamaat-e-Islami held a rally in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka. News footage shows that hundreds of thousands of people participated in the event, the first rally held by the party in over a decade. The rally sent out a strong signal. The Jamaat has survived the pressure and persecution it suffered over … Read more