Dhaka, March 16 -- Half a century after late president Ziaur Rahman manually dug the Joynagar canal in Keraniganj, his son Prime Minister Tarique Rahman is returning to the same banks with a shovel an... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 19 -- Six months can define a government's direction -- or expose its limits. For Prime Minister Tarique Rahman's newly installed BNP administration, the first 180 days are being framed as... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 9 -- As campaigning intensifies ahead of the national election and referendum scheduled for Feb 12, political circles are abuzz with concerns over possible "election engineering". In Moha... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 8 -- Every election in Dhaka carries its own memory. Of sweeps and shutouts, of streets that once decided outcomes before ballots were cast. Yet as campaigning enters its final stretch, th... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 31 -- Banners and festoons have brought an election look to Dhaka-11, but at roadside tea stalls the conversation is strikingly subdued. Voters talk less about manifestos than about fear: ... Read More