"The paradox of development is that while economic growth lifts many out of poverty, it also deepens inequalities and fractures societies if not managed inclusively."— Amartya Sen South Asia, home…
On March 21st loud cries and screams were heard in front of the Balochistan University in Quetta. Videos surfacing on the social media depicted the police pushing and dragging the…
On February 17, senior officials from Bangladesh's Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and India's Border Security Force (BSF) convened a four-day crucial border conference in New Delhi. The meeting aimed to…
To an outsider, Pakistan’s ruling class appears schizophrenic, perpetually swinging between Washington and Beijing, using each as leverage against the other. While Pakistan’s geostrategic importance allows this game for now,…
The maiden budget by Sri Lanka’s new government reflects the limitations of austerity and the need to reinstill confidence in ideas of investment-led growth and industrialisation. On 17 February 2025,…
On February 13, U.S. President Donald Trump, during a joint press conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, publicly denied the involvement of the U.S. deep state in last year's…
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government was behind possible “crimes against humanity” as it strived to hold on to power last year, says the United Nations Human Rights office in a…
Indo-Bangladesh border-lands in West Bengal (2017 km in length), fraught with strife, has borne witness to a harrowing pattern of extra-judicial killings perpetrated by the Border Security Force (BSF). The…
We need legal frameworks to prevent their future misuse In its obsession with remaining in power, Sheikh Hasina's government distorted and misused all institutions, including the judiciary, bureaucracy, police, and intelligence agencies.…
There was a complete chaos outside the airport when I landed in Dhaka. The main highway did not have enough policemen. The friend who came to pick me up said…
Independence has been a long mirage in geostrategic Ceylon/ Sri Lanka where history seems to repeat itself as tragedy and farce in equal measure. This week, the geostrategic Indian Ocean…
USA’s new president Trump took office on 20 January 2025, and immediately issued executive orders, in pursuance of his central policy to “Make America Great Again”. These orders – with…
In recent months, following the ouster of the pro-India Awami League government, Indian media outlets have embarked on an aggressive disinformation campaign against Bangladesh, continuously churning out fake news aimed…
“A 5-day long Sharadiya Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Bangladesh Hindu Community ended peacefully through the immersion of deities at different water bodies, on 2024 Oct 13..It…
There will be no honeymoon for the newly minted National People’s Power (NPP) Government that got a massive people’s mandate for debt justice. The storm blowing from Washington DC across…
Siting in a protest camp in the freezing weather of Quetta during the peak of winters isn’t easy but for a medical student like Saima Baloch, it is a matter…
Every year since 1971, we have observed 16 December as the anniversary of Pakistan’s Lt Gen A.A.K.Niazi signing the Instrument of Surrender of all Pakistan’s Eastern Command combatant troops to…
Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri concluded a one-day visit to Dhaka, on Dec 9, meeting Muhammad Yunus, the Chief Advisor of Bangladesh’s Interim Government. (Photo by DD). The meeting, some…
Four months have passed since the student-led revolution overthrew Sheikh Hasina, the most despised dictatorial prime minister in Bangladesh, on August 5, 2024. The nation has not yet shown signs…
Bangladesh Assistant High Commission office in Agartala was attacked on December 2 by Hindutva hordes… Frenzied up by misinformation, ”thousands of people took out a massive rally to the mission”…
On 5th of August this year, a student led mass uprising ended Prime Minister Hasina’s 16-year despotic and corrupt regime in Bangladesh. Hasina fled to India and has been residing…
The only conclusion that can be drawn from much of the Indian media's recent coverage of Bangladesh is that it is a Hindu-hating country. The venom that is being spewed,…
According to the Italian social scientist Vilfredo Pareto changes in regimes and revolutions occur not when rulers are overthrown from below, but when one group of elite replaces another; where…
Bangladesh says, ‘ We are probing if there is any conspiracy both at home and abroad to destabilize the interim government’,even as India indulges in brazen intervention in the internal…
The International Movement for a Just World (JUST) expresses total solidarity with detained former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan who has been imprisoned since August 2023 by a military regime…
At Annual Meetings in Washington last month International Monetary Fund head, Kristalina Georgieva claimed Sri Lanka as a debt restructuring ‘success’ story.[i] Left unsaid by the IMF’s Managing Director was…
"From the scenes we saw, it looked like the war between Palestine and Israel. A bloody game has been played and brutality is too small a word for what these…
November 24th was designated as the global day of protest for the release of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has been imprisoned by the Pakistani military and political…
Pakistan the ‘Land of Pure’ finds itself at a crossroads, with the people pushed to the brink by a corrupt system that has termited democracy, human rights, and the rule…
After Bangladesh's independence, India played a crucial role as the new nation's so-called "patron-protector" until the violent overthrow of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in August 1975. Although this event was a…
Data from the Election Commission of Sri Lanka showed that the National People’s Power (NPP) coalition scored a decisive victory in Sri Lanka’s first general election since defaulting on its…
As Americans coronate a new American president, the Zionist genocide in Gaza continues unabated. And while the world witnesses an expansion of Israel’s mass murder campaign, Muslims continue to look…
Bangladesh Hindus participate in a rally demanding that an interim government withdraw all cases against their leaders and protect them from attacks and harassment, in Chattogram, Bangladesh, Nov. 1, 2024.…
by Abdul A. Bhuiyan and Habib Siddiqui In times of war, truth is often the first casualty. The US elections are increasingly becoming the battle grounds where truth is sacrificed…
The Sanatan Jagran Manch, Bangladesh, on Oct 25 Friday, organised a massive rally at the historic Laldighi Maidan in Chittagong, where thousands of Hindus came together to demand minority rights…
As many leaders from member countries of SCO are participating in its meeting, there must be many important agendas, particularly in this phase of time when the world is facing…
Anura Kumara Dissanayake, known with convenient laziness as AKD, became Sri Lanka’s latest president after a runoff count focusing on preferential votes. The very fact that it went to a…
The July-August 2024 student-public uprising in Bangladesh began with a call for government job quota reforms but swiftly evolved into a profound challenge to the political status quo. What started…
by Atul Chandra and Vijay Prashad On September 22, 2024, the Sri Lankan election authority announced that Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led National People’s Power (NPP)…
The independence of the Indian subcontinent from British Rule was accompanied by a partition on religious lines. One of the largest migrations in human history, the partition witnessed unimaginable violence…
In the run up to elections the post-Marxist National People’s Party (NPP), has run a high-gloss, foreign-funded, election campaign to market its policies as a ‘new dawn’. Remarkably, the NPP…
On August 5, 2024, a student led mass uprising ended Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League government’s decade and a half long despotic rule in Bangladesh. Hasina fled…
It is compellingly said that the Zionist genocide in Gaza is the moral issue of our lifetimes. That is, regardless of your strong stands on other social issues of our day -…
In the run up to elections President Ranil Wickramasinghe has portrayed his government’s Debt Sustainability Agreement (DSA) with the International Monetary Fund as a panacea for Sri Lanka’s globally networked…
On the role of religion in politics, participants at a student-led round-table at The Daily Star, critically examined the influence of religion on political dynamics in Bangladesh. They emphasised that…
I learnt from a recent news story on Google that during the oath-taking ceremony of a military academy in Turkey, a dozen new army officers refused to take the oath…
According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Imperialism is the state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other…
by Mahadev Ghosh and Ramisa Rob In his Independence Day speech, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised that 1.4 billion Indians are worried about the safety of Hindu minorities in…
Hundreds of students from Dhaka, Chattogram and districts in between were seen marching towards Feni on August 22 last. They travelled in trucks, with speedboats and life jackets, on a…
Tariq Ali, despite being solidly left wing all of his life, and despite the fact that former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s politics is not his cup of tea, the preeminent…
Here, we have a devastating indictment of state terror in Pakistan by our indefatigable comrade, Khadijah Shah - the prominent Pakistani public figure and political activist. After being violently harassed, abused,…
The Socialist Party (India) recently organized a India Pakistan Peace and Friendship March during 9 to 14 August, 2024 from Mansa to Atari-Wagha border in Amritsar District. Since the Modi…
Salil Tripathi is the author of The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and its Unquiet Legacy (Aleph 2014) about the liberation war and its aftermath. He is a journalist…
This article is based on B.Z. Khasru's upcoming book, One Eleven, Minus Two, Prime Minister Hasina's War on Yunus and America, which will be published shortly by Rupa Publications, New…
A PTI report in The Times of India published on August 24, 2024 stated that Pakistan is in talks with banks in the Middle-East to borrow approximately USD 4 billion…
The day after former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka, I was on the phone with a friend who had spent some time on the streets that day. He…
[This is an excerpt from B. Z. Khasru's upcoming book, "One Eleven, Minus Two, Prime Minister Hasina's War on Yunus and America," which will be published shortly by Rupa Publications,…
Changing relationships with the Maldives have come as India’s Independence Day gift in the face of perceived Chinese dominance in the island nation following a rupture on the eve of…
The recent mass student protests in Bangladesh, which succeeded in toppling the government and empowering a Western-friendly interim leader, have attracted widespread attention, although many in the West know little…
On 5 August Sheikh Hasinaof Bangladesh resigned from the post of prime minister and went to India. The next day the parliament was dissolved. On 8 August the interim government…
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