BANGLADESH has entered a critical phase in its history on August 5. The student-mass uprising of July-August is evidence that Bangladeshis will not tolerate fascism. What started off from Dhaka University on July 1 as an innocuous demand for reforms of the quota system for government jobs turned into a massive revolution and ousted 16-year-old Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 despotic Awami League government...
Rights activists on Saturday demanded voting rights for Bangladeshi expatriates regarded as one of the driving forces of economic development in the country.
Twenty Six Bangladeshi artists are displaying their artworks in a four-day international group art exhibition titled Colombo Art Expo 2024...
THE Offshore Banking Act 2024 that was enacted in March marks a significant transformation in the country鈥檚 financial sector. This legislative measure aimed at increasing foreign currency reserves can attract international investment and facilitate the modernisation of the banking sector. However, it creates a complicated set of strategic imperatives...
The Indian high commission in Dhaka hosted a send-off event on Wednesday for Bangladeshi students leaving for India to pursue higher studies with ICCR scholarships...
POLLUTION, especially air pollution, has for long been a major cause for concern for public health. Yet, the authorities have consistently remained nonchalant about the issue. While about 200,000 premature deaths are attributed to air pollution every year, the Air Quality Life Index says that pollution shortens the life expectancy of an average Bangladeshi by...
NRBs or non-resident Bangladeshis comprise people of Bangladeshi origin who live outside Bangladesh. The 茅migr茅 community that has settled in various parts of our planet fall under the NRB category...
Families of expatriates claimed that many Bangladeshi expatriates have been detained in several Middle East countries for holding demonstrations in solidarity with the...
The imagination of politics as a source of corruption is not new. In what is called the ancient Indian state with its many variations and formulations, corruption existed largely. One of the great worries of Chanakya, who wrote Arthashastra, the book of governance management in ancient India, was official corruption. Bureaucrats have officially been corrupt and there is no historical evidence of any impulse that can reduce it...
HOW could they be so brave as to defy death, opening their chests, arms wide, in front of guns? How could they not fear the sight of blood gushing from the bodies of their fallen brothers? How could the death of one not deter the rest? What drove them to embrace the inevitable?...
THE interim government that assumed office on August 8 after the fall of the brutally repressive regime of the Awami League has so far been enjoying social and political legitimacy, largely because it is the outcome of an all pervasive student-led mass uprising. The public at large has apparently welcomed the government because of its pledge...
FOLLOWING the student-led protests, the mass uprising and the prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 exit on August 5, Indian mainstream media and social media have circulated false claims of rising persecution against the religious minority, the Hindu community, in Bangladesh. The reports, frequently accompanied by misleading footage, misrepresent...
Artists and cultural activists on Sunday said attacks on sculptures and murals are alarming for Bangladeshi culture because they contain thousands of years through art...
The 13th anniversary of the death of the acclaimed filmmaker Tareque Masud, best known for his much-acclaimed film 鈥楳atir Moina鈥� 鈥� the first Bangladeshi film to compete in the Oscars and won the Critics鈥� Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, will be observed today...
IndustriALL, a global union federation representing over 50 million workers across 140 countries, has urged Bangladesh鈥檚 apparel manufacturers to ensure the protection of workers鈥� rights and wages during the recent unrest and curfew period in the country...
ON AUGUST 5, former prime minister Sheikh Hasina boarded a Bangladesh Air Force C-130J military transport in a hurry and fled to Hindon Air Force base, outside Delhi. Her plane was refuelled and reports said that she intended to fly on either to the United Kingdom (her niece, Tulip Siddiq is a minister in the new Labour government), Finland...
The Ethical Trading Initiative, a platform of trade unions, non-governmental organisations and companies, has urged global buyers to remain engaged with Bangladeshi suppliers to fully understand the consequences of transitions, factory shutdowns and recent unrests...
I REGARD the people of Bangladesh as one big family. We have our individual likes and dislikes, abilities and interests, and preferences and limitations. But we share and celebrate one special identity 鈥� Bangladeshi...
YEARS ago, while attending the Asian Development Bank鈥檚 Transport Forum, a group of us went on a walking tour. At one point the sidewalk was so narrow pedestrians were in single file, queued up to wait to walk. In the midst of the noise and chaos, someone was burning trash on the sidewalk. The situation was so dismal I started cheering...
Around 17.28 per cent Bangladeshi expatriates returned home voluntarily after quitting their jobs overseas during the past five years...
China鈥檚 General Administration of Customs has made an announcement giving approval for Bangladeshi mangoes鈥� export to China...
State minister for information Mohammad Ali Arafat said that Bangladesh missions aboard were working on the instructions of prime minister Sheikh Hasina so that any more Bangladeshi expatriates were not in further troubles over protests in solidarity with quota reform student movement back home...
Bangladeshi theatre troupe Chandrakala Theatre staged its 18th production 鈥楽heikh Saadi鈥� at the Dinabandhu Mancha in Siliguri, West Bengal, India, on Sunday....
The United Arab Emirates has handed lengthy prison sentences to 57 Bangladeshi expatriates for protesting against their government while in the Gulf country where demonstrations are banned, state media reported Monday...
Bangladeshi nobel peace prize laureate Muhammad Yunus urged the international community on Monday to stop the deadly violence that has wracked his country since students started protesting against civil service hiring rules...
Foreign minister Hasan Mahmud said on Wednesday that arrest and imprisonment of 57 Bangladeshi nationals over protests in the United Arab Emirates were in accordance with their internal law...
THE remarks of the foreign affairs minister and the expatriate welfare and overseas employment minister that the arrest and the imprisonment of 57 Bangladeshis in Dubai is an internal affair of the United Arab Emirates are unfortunate and, therefore, unacceptable. The remarks that the ministers made in Dhaka on July 24 are nothing short...
IN 2022, 7.1 million Bangladeshis were forcibly displaced by weather-related events, a figure forecast to nearly double by 2050. One US Agency for International Development report estimates that 90 million Bangladeshis 鈥� 56 per cent of the population 鈥� live in regions classified as 鈥榟igh climate exposure areas.鈥� Half of them face 鈥榲ery high鈥� exposure...
Members of India鈥檚 Khasi ethnic community shot dead two Bangladeshi youths and injured another at Companiganj border in Sylhet on Sunday evening.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked all concerned to target the markets of Middle East, gulf countries, Africa, South Asia, South East Asia, East Asia and East Europe for export earnings alongside diversifying the Bangladeshi products...