What Bangladesh should understand about Iran today
11 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Having observed Iran for a long time, how do you understand the country?
11 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Why the Iran-Israel-US war will not stop with ceasefires
27 April 2026, 00:00 AM
After US President Trump abruptly announced an extension of the ceasefire between Iran and the US, indirect negotiations through Pakistan seemed to be on the table.
27 April 2026, 00:00 AM
How Bangladesh can tackle the current energy crisis
12 April 2026, 01:33 AM
What is a solution for Bangladesh’s oil crisis and Eastern Refinery facing a production crisis?
12 April 2026, 01:33 AM
Bangladesh must build strong relations with Iran
12 April 2026, 15:25 PM
Former Ambassador Tariq Karim urges Bangladesh to reassess Iranian relations and build internal resilience amid regional shifts.
12 April 2026, 15:25 PM
Weekly War Brief / US ground invasion in Iran and Pakistan’s mediation
2 April 2026, 13:02 PM
As the United States signals a potential ground invasion targeting Iran's energy sector, Pakistan has taken on a precarious role as a key mediator in an attempt to prevent a wider regional war and global economic collapse.
2 April 2026, 13:02 PM
The myth of victory in Lebanon and Iran
29 March 2026, 00:00 AM
There never was an international system holding it all together. We’re in a more turbulent phase, where Russia has been bogged down in a war in the backyard, and China is in economic warfare with the US. So the Middle East is really the place where the battle is happening, because a project like Israel is showing it is a strong, destabilising force that can be used by the US empire. Israel can be a ruthless criminal willing to do anything, for their colonial project to survive.
29 March 2026, 00:00 AM
Iran-US-Israel War / Endgames and lessons for Bangladesh
14 March 2026, 10:26 AM
Veteran diplomat, M Humayun Kabir, explains the current escalation of war in the Middle East and the ramifications for Bangladesh, in an exclusive interview with Ramisa Rob, Geopolitical Insights Editor at The Daily Star
14 March 2026, 10:26 AM
Iran’s new leader and Trump’s mixed messaging: Can anyone really win the war?
11 March 2026, 00:25 AM
For Iran and its allies, the Iranian regime’s stake is what matters over the people.
11 March 2026, 00:25 AM
The Erdogan era lives on, as does the power of populism
A deep dive into Erdogan's tenure reveals rather bloodthirsty politics, but people consume the surface he puts out: that he's all for Turkiye and the oppressed and whatnot.
30 May 2023, 11:21 AM
Is BJP's policy of exclusion and segregation backfiring?
PM Modi's decision to inaugurate the new parliament building himself has garnered scrutiny.
28 May 2023, 13:00 PM
UN’s commemoration of Nakba and the West’s complicity
This moment serves as a reflection, and a reminder, of the Western complicity in perpetuating the injustice against Palestinians.
17 May 2023, 14:35 PM
Imran Khan’s arrest has cracked open Pakistan’s compromised politics
With former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s arrest, Pakistan’s powerful military - which has long been acknowledged to “manage” the political scene from behind the curtains - now finds its supremacy in tatters.
12 May 2023, 17:35 PM
Rahul Gandhi’s conviction: Another dent in India’s declining democracy
The same system that drags criminal cases for years starts to work on speed when power wants it to.
31 March 2023, 14:00 PM
Heads Adani wins, tails Bangladesh loses
Gain is for Gautam Adani and loss for Bangladesh: that is how the electricity purchase deal with the Indian business tycoon may turn out to be
27 February 2023, 01:00 AM
Match Highlights: Brazil vs South Korea — as it happened
Match highlights: Formidable Brazil steamrolled South Korea 4-1 to advance to the Quarter Finals.
5 December 2022, 18:18 PM
End of the Bolsonaro Era: What the World Can Learn from Brazil
With a sliver of sanity realising the urgent need for damage control, Brazilians have voted out their most dangerous populist leader.
1 November 2022, 11:30 AM
Shikho: Transforming lives, one student at a time
Tanjir Arafat Turjo, 17, hops on a bus every morning, at 6:30am from his home in Banastree, Rampura, and travels over an hour to BAF Shaheen College Kurmitola,
17 October 2022, 18:00 PM
Trouble brewing for RMG exporters as orders fall
Apparel exporters in Bangladesh are feeling the pinch of a looming global recession, persisting higher inflation and dragging severe fallout of the Russia-Ukraine war as orders from international buyers have fallen.
24 August 2022, 02:15 AM
The lethal legacy of Donald Trump: American fascism
If there was any doubt that America has been encroaching fascism, it ended on Wednesday with the white nationalist coup in the US Capitol. The image of an American flag replaced with a Trump flag symbolises the “F-word” to its very core. At this point, America might as well wake up and prepare for another historically horrible political event infiltrated by Donald J. Trump, the most unhinged leader in the nation’s history.
9 January 2021, 10:01 AM
Rage Against Rape
Many have welcomed the government’s introduction of the death penalty, misconceiving Bangladesh’s rape problem as a quick-fix punishment problem.
18 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Inside the unexpected, unstoppable Hong Kong
When she first heard about the infamous extradition bill on March 31 this year, Adrienne, a 24-year-old Hong Kong national, had lost hope.
24 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Kashmir: Why Article 370 and why its abrogation will prove to be costly
This year, on August 14 and 15, Independence Day of Pakistan and India, celebrations were tainted with the political tensions that followed the Bharatiya Janata Party led Indian Government’s decision on August 5, 2019 to abrogate Article 370 and Article 35a, that granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, including the right to have its own constitution and its own flag, and residents’ rights and privileges, respectively.
18 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Spiralling anger and nuclear dangers
In the summer of 1945, a jittery premonition marked the lives of the citizens of Hiroshima, as B-29 super fortresses—planes that the Japanese locals called B-San or Mr.B—had been stationed in the northeast corner of the fan-shaped city.
5 August 2019, 18:00 PM
A Perpetrator’s Prerogative
About a month back, a 20-year-old man—a university student—was accused of sexual harassment and assault by multiple girls who came forward on social media. Following the circulation of posts exposing his alleged behavior, he faced, at max, a blast of “angry” emojis and hateful comments.
1 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Online sexual extortion: Why can’t we protect the most vulnerable?
We might commonly perceive cyber-security as a high-profile issue concerning governments and large corporations.
30 July 2019, 18:00 PM
A deep dive into America’s latest nosedive
Four years ago, when I stepped onto American soil for college, I quickly learned, somewhere in small talk, the rhetorical question “Where are you originally from?” and the phrase “Go back to your country” were vintage stocks of an evil market called racism.
21 July 2019, 18:00 PM
It’s on us to end rape culture
The truth is, we, as a society, have failed: we haven’t found a solution to the pervasive rape culture in Bangladesh—over 630 women have been raped in the last 6 months (Ain O Salish Kendra)—because we haven’t been addressing the problem in the first place.
14 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Overpopulation narrative is misguided
For Bangladesh—one of the most densely populated nations in the world (1,252 people per square kilometre according to online publication Our World in Data, led by economist Max Roser)—overpopulation is one of the most fundamental concerns.
10 July 2019, 18:00 PM