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by Asif Showkat Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) Bangladesh faces the risk of a major electricity shortfall ahead of the summer season after the interim government failed to clear more than Tk45bn (£330m) in dues to a major private power producer, leaving coal shipments stranded at sea and threatening the shutdown of a key power plant. SS…

by Md. Delwar Hossain In the course of a shifting global political landscape, Bangladesh is increasingly being viewed as a significant geopolitical hub in Asia, with major regional and global powers seeking closer ties with Dhaka. Following the ousting of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August 2024 through a student-led uprising marked by bloodshed,…

The United States under Donald Trump has become a rogue warrior state. One needn’t be a supporter of the misnamed Islamic government of Iran to condemn the Trump-Israeli catastrophic regime change aggression against Iran in violation of the U.S. constitution and the popular will of the U.S. people who did not want yet another war.…

Mysh cartoon‘They tried to kill us, we won— let’s eat’. This is the way the legendary American comedian Alan King characterized Jewish holidays. Indeed, Purim, as recounted in the Book of Esther, celebrates deliverance from genocide. But how should one celebrate it when death and starvation continue in Gaza, and the holiday’s rhetoric—particularly the memory…

Peace Boat strongly condemns the military attacks initiated against Iran today by Israel and the United States, and calls for their immediate cessation. We urge all parties concerned to exercise the utmost restraint. Carrying out a preemptive military strike against another country is a clear violation of international law under any circumstances. As was the…

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province, on Thursday noon, continuing his official visit to China. At Unitree Robotics, he watched humanoid robots performing different tasks and was impressed by their agile movements. Merz also visited Siemens High Voltage Circuit Breaker Co. Ltd., Hangzhou, where he learned about the development of…

Here is Trump’s disturbing speech with an analysis of all the classical psycho-political delusions, hubris, arrogance and the blindness of military power. It can only go wrong now… By Jan Oberg, TFF Director There were only two things that surprised me – and would have been fitting – namely that he had been dressed in…

On the morning of Thursday, February 26, Columbia University student Elmina “Ellie” Aghayeva, originally from Azerbaijan, was arrested in New York by ICE agents who entered her off-campus residential building without a warrant. Columbia’s interim president, Claire Shipman, said security cameras captured the agents in the hallway showing photos of a missing child, the false…

The ancient Greeks famously defined man as a “social animal.” It was a profound observation, yet incomplete. Man is not merely a social being; he is also a potential beast within society. Civilization has not erased brutality — it has only refined, organized, and sometimes disguised it. The Romans understood spectacle better than morality. In…