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On Wednesday, April 29 at 12:00pm ET, please join us for an international webinar featuring the voices of women from Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, and the West Bank, who will speak about the widening war in the SWANA/Middle East region launched…

The US is restoring its unipolar hegemony over the hemisphere, beginning with its “quarter-sphere”, because there are no checks or balances. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth spoke in early March about “Greater North America”, which includes “every sovereign nation and…

On 19 April, the Gimpo-based Jumma community celebrated the Boishuk Sangrai Bizu festival, also known as Boisabi, for the 21st time in Korea, at the Hangang New Town Lake Park in South Korea. This is the traditional Year-end and New…

by Nava Thakuria As Assam completed the single-phase, largely peaceful polling on 9 April 2026 to elect 126 representatives for the State legislative assembly, the focus shifted to the probable outcome as both the ruling and opposition parties are claiming…

by Asif Showkat Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) Tarique Rahman has claimed that a significant proportion of inmates in Bangladesh’s prisons may be unjustly detained, drawing on his own experience of incarceration to highlight systemic inequalities in access to justice. Speaking about…

By Nazrul Islam (Dhaka Bureau) We generally measure climate change through carbon emission graphs, global warming statistics, or images of melting glaciers. However, in light of recent research by climate scientist Friederike Otto, published in the British media outlet The Guardian,…

A Commitment to Building a Gender-Sensitive Society by Rita Bhowmick (Dhaka Bureau) A new integrated network and platform has been launched in Bangladesh to foster an inclusive and gender-sensitive economic environment and to ensure sustainable development and social justice. At…

by Maksuda Lisa (Dhaka Bureau) The Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur bore witness to an emotional milestone in Bangladesh cricket. The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) officially honored the speedster Rubel Hossain, who announced his retirement from international cricket after…

This might be the US’ final warning before it takes drastic action to punish those who continue to reject Trump’s demands. Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby gave an important speech at the mid-April’s Ukraine Defense Contact Group in which…

The US government under Donald Trump has twice used disingenuous negotiations with Iran to provide cover for attacking it, in June 2025 and again before launching the current war in February. Now it is trying to do so for a third time. by Nicolas…