In two far-flung corners of the Commonwealth, two economists have taken charge of their countries to assert sovereignty in the face of hegemonically powerful neighbors. In Canada, the seasoned central banker Mark Carney has become Prime Minister with a vow to uphold Can ...

The much-anticipated meeting between BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman and Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser to the interim government of Bangladesh, has served to settle nerves among Bangladeshis worldwide. The meeting at the Dorchester Hotel in London, had been finalised ...

Reform, justice, and election - the three faces of the mandate on which the interim government has staked its legitimacy. Many mistook it for the kind of caretaker government that was installed following the overthrow of the Ershad regime in 1990. While the three-month ...