A trove of photographs casts light on Bangladesh’s liberat...
December 15 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
No one is quite sure how many people died in Bangladesh’s war of independence, which ended 50 years ago, in December 1971. S...
What's behind US sanctions against Bangladesh's elite para...
December 15 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The US issued travel bans against several top RAB officials
Washington's sanctions against Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion (RA...
Women are key drivers in Bangladesh’s rapid economic growt...
December 15 ,2021
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By: Anuradha Chenoy
Bangladesh’s leadership has managed well in its role in the region and geopolitics (Shutterstock)
Is there a correlation...
Indian President due Tuesday on a three-day visit
December 15 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Indian President Ram Nath Kovind is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka today on a three-day state visit to attend celebrations marking the go...
Sanctions and rights: On U.S. move to sanction RAB
December 14 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The U.S. move to sanction a paramilitary unit in Bangladesh, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), has apparently caught the...
Investigation in ICT case filed against Shahidul Alam to c...
December 14 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Fellow journalists and students of detained photojournalist Shahidul Alam demand his unconditional release at a demonstration in fron...
Why is there no McDonald’s in Bangladesh?
McDonald’s sells a certain style of production and management, a certain theory of economic operations and a lifestyle for its...
Economic ties with Bangladesh must be strengthened
December 14 ,2021
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By: TNC Rajagopalan
On Thursday, Bangladesh will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary independence. Bangladesh became an independent country on 16 December,...
Govt looking for alternatives to China in two rail project...
December 14 ,2021
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By: Saifuddinn Saif
The two projects are – conversion of the Akhaura-Sylhet metre gauge railway line into dual gauge and construction of the Joydebpu...
US sanctions Bangladesh for Dhaka's growing proximity with...
December 14 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Police keep the public away near the site of a police operation on militants on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on July 26, 2016....
India contributed in establishment of democracy in Banglad...
December 13 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Army Chief Gen MM Naravane and IAF chief Air Chief Marshal VRChoudhari during the inauguration of the...
'This could push Dhaka into the arms of Beijing'
December 11 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Michael Kugelman, Deputy Director and Senior Associate for South Asia at Woodrow `for Scholars.Wilson Center website
The recent sa...
US imposes sanctions on Benazir, RAB DG and four others
December 11 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The United States of America has imposed sanctions on six former and current officials of Bangladesh’s elite forc...
Murad’s mind-numbing misogyny
December 11 ,2021
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By: Shuprova Tasneem
Illustration: Biplob Chakroborty
State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Murad Hassan has been made to resign from his pos...
US engagement in Indo-Pacific not against any country: Mil...
December 11 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller Photo: Collected
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller has said their engagement in...
1% of Bangladesh's population holds 16.3% of national inco...
December 10 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Just 1 percent of Bangladesh's population holds 16.3 percent of the total national income in 2021 and the bottom half 17.1 percent, acc...
Phone conversation leak worries many ministers, MPs and le...
December 10 ,2021
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By: Anowar Hossain
Prothom Alo illustration
Many ministers, lawmakers and ruling party leaders have become worried over phone conversation leaks as l...
A Case for a Feminist Foreign Policy in Bangladesh
December 9 ,2021
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By: Shafqat Munir
“Around the world, there is a pushback on women’s rights. […] We will push back against the pushback. And we will ke...
Forbes features Hasina at 43 on its most powerful women li...
December 9 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina File photo
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been ranked 43rd on Forbes' list of the most powerful wom...
A phantom trap awaits Bangladesh
December 8 ,2021
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By: Readus Salehen Jawad
Illustration: TBS
The surprising and almost meteoric economic rise of Bangladesh has been one of the greatest success stories of e...
8 Bangladeshis named in Pandora Papers
December 8 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
A document of the Pandora Papers was released on Monday night (Bangladesh time) where eight Bangladeshis were named.
All eight of...
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