Here were expectations that the aggressive Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi might lead the attack on the Modi government...

The avalanche of Donald Trump's presidential campaign success reached new levels this Tuesday...

It seems these days in Bangladesh we are either forced or almost obliged to give personal, sometimes very private, information to some national bodies

What is missing from NHRC's actions is that it has not done systematic monitoring of the health services prevailing in the country, and has not taken any strategic action to improve them.

At least for the time being, 'no' has become synonymous with Sami. But at the same time, 'yes' is synonymous with the Tigers. For it is not the no balls, but rather the 'yes' attitude of the Tigers that won them the game.

The February 17th meeting was the third between Aung San Suu Kyi and military commander-in-chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing since the National League for Democracy (NLD)'s electoral victory in November last year.

Bangladesh's jinx over the highly popular T-20 format cricket has disappeared in a flash as if in a comic strip to put it picturesquely.

It’s understood if you have two families and hold two jobs, but not if you express two beliefs in one conversation.

The Democratic primaries have been remarkably free of rancour, thanks to the mostly civil and substantive political debate. The Republican primaries, on the other hand, have become a three-ring circus.

If we peel back the layers of the most recent crimes such as the killing of children and the disturbing prevalence of violence against women...

We are quite happy, thank you very much, to superficially engage with an issue and then sweep it under the rug as soon as the day is over.

Psychologists have suggested that humans have a natural preference for negative news, the public experience of which they enjoy via mass media. The reason is not necessarily 'schadenfreude' or secret pleasure derived out of other people's misery.

Two days ago, Ashis Nandy, the political psychologist, social theorist, critic, and a trained clinical psychologist...

The distress felt in identity formation is only rarely directed towards religious extremism, but is present nevertheless. The 'unbelonging' is in part because people of Bangladeshi origin living overseas do not see their lives reflected in story telling industries.

Big changes are underway in the United States, as the country gears up to elect a new president, one-third of the Senate, and the entire House of Representatives this November. The outcome will have profound consequences for US economic policy, and thus for the global economy.

I call back the unknown number from the missed call list. “I think you just called me. Who is this?”

Sexist nationality laws reinforce harmful gender stereotypes. Once married, a woman loses her independent identity if she loses her nationality of origin; a child “belongs” to a father rather than a mother if only the father can give the child citizenship.

We are fighting ceaselessly against the distortion of our history; let us not do the same ourselves. As far as the DS is concerned, when none of the AL leaders, none of the newspapers of the country dared to open their mouths against the Chief of Army Staff's (CAS) tacit intention to create 'our own' brand of democracy, it was only Mahfuz Anam who had the bravado to write a commentary under the heading, “Gen Moeen goes public on politics.”

The backdrop was dramatic, full of expectancy for the growing numbers of cricket-lovers in the country – almost to a last man...

One thing constant in the varying nature of killing children is how ruthlessly a life is nipped in the bud. Be it infanticide, prolicide or paedocide, that nipping is shocking no matter who does it and how it's done.