Also in today’s newsletter, OpenAI’s massive new funding round, and India’s Narendra Modi faces tough budget challenge ...

The government has decided to review the quota system for entry into government jobs and admission to educational institutions.

Every December, my reading group chooses a book related to 1971. In 2015, for example, we read A. Qayyum Khan’s Bittersweet Victory: A Freedom Fighter’s Tale (2013) and a few years earlier we read ...

The 104th anniversary of the birth of a leading organiser of the War of Liberation, former president late justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, will be observed today (31 January).  To mark the day, a ...

NewsVoir Gurugram Haryana [India] January 30 SGT University takes pride in announcing that its esteemed Chancellor Shri Ram Bahadur Rai has received the Padma Bhushan India third-highest civilian awar ...

If the past indicates the future, there is considerable doubt about the stability of democracy in Bangladesh .

Bangladesh’s largest minority rights group has accused the country’s interim government of failing to protect religious and ethnic minorities from attacks and harassment, a claim the government has de ...

Notwithstanding the historically egregious role of the Pakistan Army in the 1971 Liberation War, the interim administration in Dhaka has been actively pursuing enhanced military collaboration with Isl ...

Poet Sajjad Sharif has resigned from the executive committee of Bangla Academy amid the controversy over the institution’s ...

From parents to teachers to policymakers to industry professionals – nobody is happy with the quality of public education. Yet, this has continued for decades. The majority of parents find no ...

When Fragments of Riversong first appeared a decade ago, it did more than merely introduce Farah Ghuznavi as a significant literary voice; it signalled a transformation in Bangladeshi English-language ...

The Bangla Academy has revised its previously announced list of recipients for the Bangla Academy Literary Award 2024, ...