Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina frequently claimed that Bangladesh was a "market economy." But is it? A market economy is, by definition, a capitalist economy guided by prices, competition, and ...

The Gita recitation programme entered its third edition this year, but the 2025 event saw significantly larger mobilisation, with many sadhus, sanyasis and several BJP leaders ...

The impact of political uncertainty and market stagnation directly affected the industrial and services sectors ...

A leading international human rights organisation wrote to the United Nations Special Rapporteur, raising alarm over the ban imposed on Bangladesh’s Awami League party and the suspension of its ...

All eight parties will run month-long campaigns throughout December to mobilise public support in favour of the 'Yes' option in the referendum.

Chairman Md Abdur Rahman Khan said the country has already slipped into a debt trap and must confront the problem ...

Forty years ago, on a December morning in 1985, South Asia embarked on an ambitious experiment. Seven neighbours — united by shared histories yet separated by borders, suspicion and political ...

Former Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan wants to return home to play a match in all three formats before ending his ...

Mansur argued that authoritarian tendencies do not originate from a single individual alone, but from the ecosystem that surrounds leadership.

DHAKA, Dec 8, 2025 (BSS) – Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr. Shafiqur Rahman today warned that any delay in holding the ...

Recent statements by Indian Prime Minister Modi and Foreign Minister Jaishankar suggest that change could be in the air.

But Yunus’s ill-considered remark that India’s Northeast is “landlocked" and dependent on Bangladesh as its “gateway to the ...