Institutional weaknesses, corruption and excessive concentration of power over the past one and a half decades have narrowed Bangladesh’s civic space, says Debapriya Bhattacharya.

Kelly, a retired Navy captain and former astronaut, said in his lawsuit in federal court in Washington that the Defense Department’s actions were retaliatory and violated the US Constitution’s First A ...

Professor Riaz emphasised the vision of a state upholding equality, human dignity, and justice, noting that institutional decay over the past 54 years has repeatedly allowed personal or party ...

Since returning to office in January 2025, Trump’s administration has imposed tariffs on allies, threatened to annex Canada, detained foreign visitors at the border, and launched mass deportations. Pl ...

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who announced the lawsuit, said the Department of Homeland Security's surge of immigration officers into the Democratic-led northern state in recent days has ...

Following the conclusion of arguments from both the prosecution and defence, Judge Robiul Alam of Dhaka’s Special Judge Court-4 fixed the date ...

The joining programme was organised by the district BNP at a local community centre in Matiranga, marking one of the largest recent defections in the hill district.

Le Pen was in March handed a five-year ban from holding public office, effective immediately, after she and eight other former National Rally (RN) lawmakers were found guilty of misappropriating over ...

Following the US announcement last week of a deal to export up to 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil stuck in storage, US President Donald Trump said China would not be deprived of Venezuela's crude ...

The interest was conveyed while Bangladesh's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Abida Islam visited the city of Portsmouth on Monday ...

Spot gold traded little changed at $4,593.81 per ounce as of 0357 GMT, while US gold futures for February delivery slipped 0.3% to $4,602.70 ...

The 69-year-old general has ruled the impoverished Southeast Asian nation since ousting Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government in a 2021 coup. That sparked a civil war of unprecedented ...