Could India's Gen-Z rebellion begin with cockroaches?
25 May 2026, 14:51 PM
Geopolitical Insights
The OpenAI–Musk dispute: Who controls the future of AI?
25 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Geopolitical Insights
The cotton clause: How the US–Bangladesh trade pact could reshape regional textile trade
25 May 2026, 08:30 AM
Geopolitical Insights
Why both Trump and Putin felt compelled to visit Beijing
24 May 2026, 14:31 PM
Geopolitical Insights
What Bangladesh should understand about the Arakan Army’s Way of Rakhita doctrine
20 May 2026, 10:07 AM
Geopolitical Insights
The hunt for the Holy Grail: The repurposed US-Israeli casus belli for Iran’s uranium
18 May 2026, 11:00 AM
Geopolitical Insights
Does the US-Bangladesh trade deal mirror colonial economics?
17 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Geopolitical Insights
What is the ‘Thucydides trap’ Xi warned Trump about?
17 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Geopolitical Insights
What will stop killings at the Bangladesh–India border?
16 May 2026, 15:55 PM
Geopolitical Insights
Can the Xi-Trump summit prevent a new Cold War?
14 May 2026, 12:02 PM
Geopolitical Insights
Belligerents or criminals? Terrorism in a world without peaceful redress
Hamas’ terrorism pale in comparison to 23,000 (and counting) Gazans killed by the Israeli military, more than half women and children.
25 January 2024, 10:00 AM
Bangladesh's right of intervention in the Genocide Convention cases
It is very likely that Bangladesh will not be allowed to intervene.
24 January 2024, 14:00 PM
The future of India-Maldives relations
The Maldives cannot afford to overlook India entirely.
23 January 2024, 01:00 AM
‘The US and West must stop their misadventures in the Middle East’
Arab Parliament President Adel Al Asoomi in an exclusive interview with The Daily Star.
22 January 2024, 15:30 PM
Top 10 Economies to watch in 2024
China is too big to stay weak too long.
18 January 2024, 10:00 AM
In the eyes of the world, Israel has lost
Bangladesh’s decision to file a declaration of intervention has a distinctive characteristic.
18 January 2024, 01:00 AM
‘A setback for US-Bangladesh relations’
The Awami League has been playing this game for a long time now.
16 January 2024, 03:00 AM
What’s next for US policy in Bangladesh?
South Asia Institute Director Michael Kugelman offers his insights
16 January 2024, 01:00 AM
The implications for China, the West and India
Powerful countries, far and near, have shown active interest in Bangladesh’s election and have been polarised in a rather peculiar fashion
10 January 2024, 03:00 AM
Bangladesh in geopolitics: Post-election challenges
Bangladesh has to maintain a balanced relationship with all five major centres from a trade point of view.
10 January 2024, 01:00 AM
The Great Game will continue
The absence of democratic behaviour is no longer hidden under the carpet.
9 January 2024, 13:00 PM
The plight of the Sudanese deserves our attention
Sudan needs assistance from the international community—and it needs it very quickly.
3 January 2024, 07:34 AM
The world wrapped in 2023
The biggest victim of this consequential year: democracy, and humanity.
26 December 2023, 06:00 AM
Christmas in Occupied Palestine: ‘Dreams buried under rubbles’
Archbishop Theodosius Atallah Hanna, Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem discusses the cruel reality in occupied Palestine during Christmas with Ramisa Rob of The Daily Star.
26 December 2023, 03:00 AM
Venezuela's invasion of Guyana: Maduro’s Hail Mary
Why, after all this time, is Maduro taking such a big gamble now?
19 December 2023, 06:00 AM
Modern 'Roads to Rome': From BRI and IMEC to Israel
India’s bridgehead Mideast role could also inflame future global relations.
19 December 2023, 03:00 AM
What Russian warships in Chattogram port tells us about great power competition in Bangladesh
Bangladesh has become a prime battleground for great power competition.
18 December 2023, 14:00 PM
Bangladesh-India relations: An increasingly complicated friendship
Both Bangladeshis and Indians need to understand that they need each other in order to thrive.
12 December 2023, 01:00 AM
How will the Pannun 'murder plot' affect India-US relations?
The Biden administration appears to be isolating the murder plot.
5 December 2023, 02:00 AM
An open letter to the UNSC from Doctors Without Borders
A firsthand account of the crisis in Gaza, with an urgent plea to end Israeli siege and attacks
4 December 2023, 15:18 PM