American foreign policy is not what it used to be, at least when it comes to the Middle East.

There are many in our land, living either at home or abroad, who possess the unflinching dedication to the values of our Liberation War...

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's announcement that he would probe and punish the perpetrators of the Pathankot airbase attack comes as a light in the dark, endless tunnel dividing India and Pakistan.

Unfortunately, citizens are yet to rise to the occasion and play a meaningful role to take the law forward. Demands for information are yet to pour into government offices in large numbers to test the system.

The tourism industry has indeed become a major impetus to growth through its direct and indirect positives.

The American presidential race is a not a sprint - it is a marathon. As someone who has completed several marathons...

Public confidence increases when the police complaints system provides for an external body to supervise an investigation, or review the evidence and conclusions drawn by the police investigation

It is important to remember that every person's job is important to that person and to that person's near and dear ones. No one sweats to sell peanuts on the pavement for entertainment.

The dejection in 15-year-old Ranjina Khatun Rojoni's face says it all. Physical pain, humiliation, disillusionment and despair are all written in that child's countenance – expressions that tell us how we have failed our children.

Some may draw a similarity between Donald Duck and Donald Trump as the word 'quack' may apply to both. Quite the contrary. He did qualify somewhere down the line, I guess, through an unaired (and blooper filled) episode of The Apprentice...

The up-scaling of the passport is indicative of the country's potentiality as a vibrant investment destination. We must build up on the image, and not allow it to be chipped away by any indiscretion whatsoever...

The first challenge to the Western hegemony that followed the collapse of Communism in Europe was the emergence of the so-called...

We need to understand who is right and who is wrong as well as how to go about it in the future. Law can't be an ad hoc thing, and it shouldn't be a coat one has to cut according to one's cloth.

If monetary policy autonomy is a priority, capital account liberalisation should come after a country’s transition to a flexible exchange rate – not before it.

It is only in the hyper-polarised political environment of Bangladesh that an article published eight years earlier...

Vemula was admitted to his university on merit, not through the reservation system. Yet he faced all the prejudice that would be directed at any Dalit. He left behind a passionate letter outlining his mistreatment at the hands of an insensitive and bureaucratic university administration.

While Modi rigorously tweets about South Asian oneness and names prosperity for all in the region as his vision, the rest of South Asia wonders whether any of what he says will ever dispel the fear psychosis that many of us have on being overwhelmed by our big neighbour.

What is amazing is that at a time when nation states are keen to form or join regional economic blocs, Britain wants to leave the largest powerful economic bloc in the world.

In 1972, shortly after liberation, I used to work in the Prime Minister's secretariat in a small cubbyhole of a room that was hardly big enough for one desk and two chairs.

If the dawn of democracy arrived in Athens 2,500 years ago, how has its day progressed in as many years?