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.

This year’s book fair is significant as the first one after a historic political shift. However, it is not literary works, rather controversial incidents — seemingly politically motivated — that are m ...