The lights are out here in my home city of Dhaka as I write these words. Cyclone Sitrang has knocked out the electricity in Bangladesh’s capital, plunging much of this city of 22 million people into ...

The former minister and niece of Bangladesh's ousted former leader, who received a two-year sentence, says the charges are politically motivated.

The word Rohingya refugee is about to settle in a dictionary now. Only woes continue for Rohingya refugees and make the ...

Relatives of imprisoned leaders and activists of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party participate in protest in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka, Bangladesh, November 28, 2023. Credit: ...

THE OUTCOME of the election due to be held in Bangladesh on January 7th is not uncertain. Sheikh Hasina, who has governed the South Asian country since 2009, has made sure that only she can win. Her ...

Strong shockwaves were felt as far as the Indian city of Kolkata, more than 325 kilometers away from the epicenter.

IT IS a mystery. Last year Bangladesh’s army of migrant workers abroad increased by a record 750,000, to reach 8m-odd. They travel to earn money for their families. Yet the statistics suggest they are ...

On April 25, a group of men posing as couriers murdered a Bangladeshi gay-rights activist and his friend at an apartment building in the capital Dhaka. The killing of 35-year-old Xulhaz Mannan, who ...

The “Bangladeshi Rohingya” framing has become a central weapon in anti-immigrant narratives through systematic disinformation ...

Manoj Roy receives funding from UK and European Research Councils and The British Academy. David Hulme receives funding from UK Research Councils, British Academy, DFID and the Rory and Elizabeth ...

There was something from, I think Mill, quoted by Margaret Thatcher about how something was nonsense, nonsense upon stilts. This would seem to be an apt starting point for describing an insistence ...

The United States has been a bit preoccupied lately. Between our new administration’s extraordinarily rocky start and the nation’s general feelings of impending doom and uncertainty, it can be easy to ...