The climate for freedom of secular thought in Bangladesh remains bleak a decade after religious zealots murdered blogger ...

I was on research leave from the University of Dhaka to do a postdoctoral stint at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. I ...

It is becoming increasingly evident that fundamentalism is on the rise in an unsettled Bangladesh. Just a few days ago, an attack was carried out on the stall of Sabyasachi Prakashan at the Amar ...

A women’s football tournament in northern Bangladesh was cancelled after Islamist groups protested against the event, ...

Jashimuddin Rahmani, the leader of banned Islamist militant group Ansarullah Bangladesh (ABT) - now known as Ansar al Islam - ...

Sheikh Hasina promised that every victim's family would be helped, and legal action would be taken against the killers.

The commemoration of philosopher and Sufi saint Lalon Fakir in Bangladesh has been cancelled following objections ...

Earlier on Monday, a group of madrasa students had attacked a stall at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair in Dhaka over the display ...

A series of unsettling incidents over recent years has cast a long shadow over the fair’s foundational principles.

Six months after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ouster, Bangladesh faces fresh violence and political unrest amid reports of extremism. How is the interim government going to handle the crisis?

Taslima Nasrin, a physician and activist, went into exile in 1994 after extremist groups made threats against her. The head ...