When it comes to hypocrisy, it's hard to beat India's Hindutva-driven Sangh Parivar. It strenuously claimed the legacy of Dr BR Ambedkar, a principal author of India's secular Constitution, and a Dalit, on his 124th birth anniversary.

The rather undramatic end to the three plus months of blockade punctuated by strikes has elicited a sigh of relief from hartal stricken people of Bangladesh.

FOR understandable reasons the ensuing mayoral election in the national capital and the commercial capital of the country has

ONE cannot thank India for having a hand in drying our rivers across which today ply bullock carts, not by any act of magic but by

THERE is a close link between economic growth, human development and good management of natural resources, mainly water bodies

WHEN in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them

THE centre of gravity shifts every few years. The shattered buildings look like real estate displays as if walls and roofs were

She has finally announced her candidacy for the president of the United States of America. In a short video

POLITICAL develop-ments in the Middle East are changing and dynamics of realpolitik is at play on the heels of Tehran's recent framework

AT the global level, developed countries have pledged to provide $100 Billion every year starting from 2020 to developing countries to tackle

ANOTHER blogger" is the phrase most English news media worldwide used in their headlines of blogger Oyasiqur Rahman Babu's

THE election schedules for Dhaka North, Dhaka South and Chittagong City Corporation have been declared. April, 28th is the voting date.

On a July morning in 1971, Muhammad Kamaruzzaman marched into Sohagpur, a remote hamlet, and unleashed cold-blooded savagery.

IF the formalities are completed as expected, war criminal Muhammad Kamruzzaman's execution might have been carried out by the

AFTER 18 months of gruelling negotiations, Iran and the P-5+1 (United States, France, Britain, China, Russia—and Germany) reached a

FOR more than 40 years, the earth has been sending distress signals.

THE impunity of every citadel of patriarchy is intact -- family, marriage, public servants, army, police," observes Dr. Amrita Chhachhi...

THE brutal murders of two bloggers by extremists, one in full public view and the other in broad daylight, in a residential area of the city in disturbingly quick succession have understandably created a wave of fear amongst the people.

RELIGIOUS sensitivity has deepened since the advent of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's regime.

A closet Muslim US President strikes a nuclear deal with the Shia Muslim President of Iran that enrages the Jewish Prime Minister of Israel.