Jannatul Naym Pieal

As AI-assisted writing becomes harder to avoid, the real test of literature may lie not in how it is produced, but in the humanity of its ideas

China's proposed economic corridor promises strategic opportunities for Bangladesh, but Myanmar's prolonged conflict makes its realisation a distant prospect.

Anti-Bangladesh rhetoric continues to emanate from influential quarters in West Bengal and across India’s political discourse, which has real consequences. It shapes how ordinary Indians perceive Bangladeshis and creates a climate in which hostility—at immigration counters and in public spaces—may become culturally normalised, making the stay of Bangladeshis anywhere in India fraught with anxiety and insecurity.

A line on a map cannot contain a war economy, armed actors, or a collapsing frontier next door.

Artificial intelligence has genuinely made our creative and professional lives easier — whether you are a writer staring down a deadline, a researcher drowning in documents, or simply someone trying to get through a long to-do list.

When diplomatic talks fail, the language of their conclusion is usually the last to admit it.

Mamata’s rump would be Trinamool Lite — still around, still vocal, but no longer the machinery through which Bengal’s political economy ran.

On June 2, with a border conference six days away, Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed spoke to reporters at the Secretariat and dismantled decades of Bangladeshi advocacy in a single sweep.

As India intensifies deportation efforts, Bangladesh faces growing pressure at a border increasingly shaped by politics.

On Saturday, a group of film enthusiasts in Brahmanbaria planned to do something entirely ordinary: watch a film together, discuss it, and go home.

Lost in the storm of institutional pride was a more uncomfortable question: was Bobby Hajjaj actually wrong? The short answer is: not substantially.

The movie is an adaptation of a Humayun Ahmed book, but two screenwriters gave it life for the screen

East Bengal winning the Indian Super League symbolises profound cultural vindication for displaced refugees facing political anxieties.

In Dhaka’s Pallabi, an eight-year-old was raped and murdered inside a neighbouring flat on May 19. Her body was dismembered in an attempt to conceal the crime.

On the morning of March 28, 2026, some 13 Bangladeshi fishermen left Shah Porir Dwip in Teknaf before dawn, as generations before them had done, to pull nets from the Naf River.

In 2026, this narrative cuts deeper than ever. Millions live as modern Shoshis — outwardly functional yet existentially adrift.

As Kaarina's father typed out his farewell in the small hours of this morning, strangers were celebrating. Not quietly. Loudly, gleefully, with religious invocations, sexual slurs, and -- in the most depraved corners of social media -- threats to rape her corpse.

Persistent killings along the Bangladesh-India border expose deepening impunity, nationalist politics, and failures of accountability mechanisms today.

“For the past two months, innocent children have been dying, and there has been no discussion about it in parliament. No one is taking responsibility.

As Trump and Xi reshape global rivalry, Bangladesh faces new economic risks, strategic pressures, and industrial opportunities.