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Here I am in Singapore, a non-citizen of Bangladesh (although a fellow-Bengali) and celebrating the imminent general election. Why? Because as West Bengal's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says, and beautifully so, "Dharmo jaar jaar, utsob sobar" (Religion belongs to the ...
THE LEDE
Every few years, an old argument returns dressed up as divine wisdom. This time, it comes from the Amir of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. In an interview with Al Jazeera, Dr. Shafiqur Rahman announced-solemnly-that a woman can never lead his party. Why? Because women give ...
THE LEDE
It is an election where the winners may take a while to be determined, but we do already know the losers. Come February 12, Bangladesh will revert to democratic rule following parliamentary elections and a referendum on the July Charter. The new government will face a p ...
Singapore, for a brief moment, becomes an entire city-sized gallery. Earlier thi ...
The 13th Jatiya Sangshad elections, the final act in a three-stage transition tr ...
With less than a week to go before Bangladesh's 13th general election on Februar ...
What is happening? Up to 127 million Bangladeshis will go to the polls on 12 ...
US President Donald Trump said that he plans to lower tariffs on goods from Indi ...
As the bodies of two dozen Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes arrived at hos ...
For a long time, voting in Bangladesh was a national festival. Then, it became a ...
Bangladesh and Japan have signed an agreement over 'transfer of defence equipmen ...
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