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Ruling Awami League and opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party spell out their foreign policy priorities. Bangladesh is getting more international attention for two very different reasons. Domestically,…
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Bangladesh is heading into general elections with the opposition sitting out the vote after staging major protests. With dissatisfaction growing among the public, the ruling party…
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her party are nearly guaranteed to win on Sunday. The rest of the region may welcome the result. The highlights this…
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Academics and activists at a webinar on Tuesday urged the government to halt the trials of cases filed under the Digital Security Act, which has been…
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The rights of people have been curtailed significantly in the country, said speakers at a webinar yesterday. "In the past five years, it has been observed…
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There are many elections due in Asia in 2024. Unfortunately, the only one that really seems to matter, whatever your country or preferences, is the November…
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As Bangladesh gets ready to hold general elections on 7 January, the role of its giant neighbour India is being intensely discussed in the country. Prime…
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The already disintegrated world has been further fragmented by different wars and rising tensions across different regions around the world. Amidst the already rising tensions between…
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That Sheikh Hasina remains India’s best bet in Bangladesh shows, at one level, the failure of diplomatic imagination or intent on its part In the coming…
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"I have been punished for a crime I did not commit. If you want to call it justice, you can." — Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus…
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On 2 January 2024, the Centre for Governance Studies organized a webinar on the Digital Security Act 2018 titled “The Perpetual Misery: The Plight of the…
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Majority of the accused under Bangladesh's repealed Digital Security Act (DSA) are political party workers and journalists, according to a recent study by the Centre for…
