The US presidential election was closely watched by many nations in the world. Bangladesh was not far behind. Bangladeshi blogs also followed the election: Shohail M Chowdhury at the Bangla blogging platform Sachalayatan live blogged the election....

How to engineer the elections in Bangladesh carefully, without raising too many alarm bells, without hijacking of ballot boxes, prevention of voters from casting ballots, or any such crude tactics that would be obvious to an observer. A satirical look...

Bangladesh has compiled a new voters list including more than 80 million voters in less than one year at a cost of $65 million. The new list dropped “fake names and duplicate entries” and is expected to pave the way for fair elections...

Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Touhid Hossain Sunday said it is unacceptable that 73 Bangladesh civilians has been killed this year by Indian border guards and he has raised this with the Indian side. In terms of the killing of two Bangladesh Rifles...

“Rezaul Islam and Zainal Abedin were near the barbed wire fencing in Panchpirtala border area around 5am. At the time, BSF members from Moshrumpur border opened fire on them.” BDR Jadavpur company commander Mosharraf Hossain alleged that...

I have said it before that the illegal border trades and the involvement of the border security forces in the smuggling are the key causes for the India-Bangladesh border strifes. We have seen Indian border security forces (BSF) killing one Bangladeshi...

Bangladesh government has introduced a tougher law to combat religious terrorism in the country. The Anti-Terrorism Ordinance 2008 passed this week empowers: * The Central Bank to freeze the accounts of a suspected terror financier. * judges to...

Unheard Voices Blog quotes UNDP which hit the panic button for Bangladesh last month: “Skyrocketing oil prices have driven up the cost of food worldwide, but their impact has been particularly dire in Bangladesh, where almost half of the 145...

The world population is approximately 6.5 billion (6,500,000,000) now and is likely to surpass 9 billion by 2050. Traveling in vast barely populated countrysides in Europe seem to amaze me, coming from a populous country like Bangladesh. When I...

A Dhaka magistrate asked authorities today to free Arifur Rahman, a former cartoonist of Bangla-language daily Prothom Alo who faces charges of ‘hurting religious sentiment’. A translation of the cartoon: * Boy, what is your name? - My...