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Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) has banned all types of rallies, meetings, human chains, and street protests around Chattogram Port for one month, aiming to ensure smooth and uninterrupted import-export activities at the port.
In early October 2015, Cricket Australia postponed its scheduled tour of Bangladesh citing security concerns. Around the same time, the country’s national football team was also due to visit Dhaka. Just like the cricketers, the Socceroos also backed out. Their demand was that the match be shifted elsewhere. But after reviewing the security situation in Bangladesh, FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) declared that the match would be held in Dhaka. If Australia refused to play, Bangladesh would be awarded three points. Yet the International Cricket Council (ICC) could not compel the Australians to tour Bangladesh.
Can the most successful cricketer in our country’s history, Shakib Al Hasan, play again wearing the national jersey? Does he still have the right to represent his beloved country? This remains one of the most debated questions in today’s sports arena, yet we do not have a clear answer at all.
In October 2023, Israel launched yet another indiscriminate attack on Gaza. Almost two years on, the death toll in Gaza has already exceeded 65,000. Nearly all of the 2.1 million residents of the besieged enclave have been displaced multiple times. Recently, Israel began a full-scale assault on Gaza City, the largest city in the territory. The objective is clear — to empty this densely populated city completely and seize control of it. In this situation, international pressure on the United States, the United Kingdom, and other Western countries to force Israel to end the war and genocide is steadily increasing.
Refugees have no place anywhere in the world—not even in their own homeland. Families rendered homeless by river erosion, who build new settlements elsewhere, are again evicted from those places through political power. According to news reports published on Thursday (9 October), Urirchar, a remote union on the ancient island of Sandwip in the Bay of Bengal, has become one of the major shelters for climate-displaced people. But now, this very settlement is also falling victim to political thuggery, forcing its residents to become refugees once again.
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In October 2023, Israel launched yet another indiscriminate attack on Gaza. Almost two years on, the death toll in Gaza has already exceeded 65,000. Nearly all of the 2.1 million residents of the besieged enclave have been displaced multiple times. Recently, Israel began a full-scale assault on Gaza City, the largest city in the territory. The objective is clear — to empty this densely populated city completely and seize control of it. In this situation, international pressure on the United States, the United Kingdom, and other Western countries to force Israel to end the war and genocide is steadily increasing.
Chief Adviser of the Interim Government Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus went to New York in the United States to attend the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Along with seven advisers and officials of equivalent rank, six leaders from three political parties accompanied him—BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, the Acting Chairman’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs Humayun Kabir, Jamaat-e-Islami’s Nayeb-e-Ameer Syed Abdullah Muhammad Taher and Dr Nakibur Rahman, National Citizen Party (NCP) Member Secretary Akhtar Hossain and Joint Convener Dr Tasnim Zara. Initially, Dr Nakibur Rahman and Tasnim Zara were not included in the delegation; they were later added at the request of Jamaat and NCP.
At the same time, he imposed strict restrictions on the free flow of news. Under the Official Secrets Act, press freedom was curtailed. The British role in spreading education was never without purpose; it served state policy. They had no intention of creating a highly educated Indian nation.
The most discussed event in Bangladesh’s recent politics is the long interview given by BNP’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman to BBC Bangla. After seventeen long years in exile, this interview is not merely a message of his personal return; rather, it also carries hints of a possible new equation in Bangladesh’s future politics. As one of the main contenders for power, the BNP has long suffered from a crisis of leadership, internal divisions, corruption allegations, and failure to wage an effective movement. In such a context, this public political statement from the party’s top leader has sparked new debate—some see it as the beginning of BNP’s resurgence, while others consider it still an undefined promise.
The war is ongoing in Gaza. In the meantime, Israel seems to be moving day by day towards international isolation. This has raised the question: is Israel’s situation then becoming like that of ‘South Africa’?
Sweden holds elections under the Proportional Representation (PR) system. In this system, parliamentary seats are distributed according to the proportion of votes cast. As a result, no single party can monopolise power; coalition-building becomes essential for governance.
As in every year, this year too there was much speculation surrounding the Nobel Prize in Literature. Among the possible contenders was the Hungarian short story writer and novelist László Krasznahorkai, who is also well known as a screenwriter. Born in 1954, this eminent writer won the Man Booker Prize in 2015. Now, at the age of seventy-one, he has been awarded the Nobel Prize in 2025. His novels may be described as belonging to the dystopian genre. His celebrated novel The Melancholy of Resistance was adapted into a film by the renowned director Béla Tarr.
Every day in Bangladesh, more than 52 people drown, and nearly 40 of them are children. These are not just numbers; they are names, faces, and dreams that end too soon. Behind every statistic lies a family’s grief and a preventable tragedy.
For the past four decades, the country 's eminent poet Rezauddin Stalin has enchanted readers with his Bangla poetry. Love, protest, humanity and social values have emerged in his work with powerful artistry. Born on 22 November 1962 in Nalbhanga village of Kaliganj upazila in Jhenaidah district, he is the author of many poetry collections, among which Valobasha Tumi (You are Love), Judhdho Noy Shanti (Not War, but Peace) and Ami Tumi Shey (I, You, He/She) are particularly notable. Recently, he has been appointed Director General of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. He spoke briefly to Views Bangladesh about the Academy’s activities, future plans and dreams. Interview has been taken by Shahadat Hossain Touhid, Editorial Assistant, Views Bangladesh.
Pakistan’s air force carried out a targeted airstrike in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, on early Friday (October 10).
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet on early Friday (October 10) has approved a ceasefire and hostage release deal with Hamas in Gaza.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit the Mindanao region of the Philippines on Friday morning. Following the quake, authorities issued a tsunami warning for coastal areas, reports BBC.
Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature this year for his outstanding contribution to literature. The Swedish Academy announced his name on Thursday, October 9.
One afternoon in 1985, Taiwan’s influential minister K.T. Li invited Morris Chang to his office. Nearly two decades earlier, it was Li who had persuaded Texas Instruments to set up the first chip factory in Taiwan.
Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) has banned all types of rallies, meetings, human chains, and street protests around Chattogram Port for one month, aiming to ensure smooth and uninterrupted import-export activities at the port.
In response to the request of the previous government, in 2023 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a loan of 4.7 billion US dollars in favour of Bangladesh. Although Bangladesh had sought 4.5 billion dollars in the original loan application
In 2025, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai. He was born on 5 January 1954 in the small Hungarian town of Gyula. Although he studied law at university, he eventually found his lasting home in literature. His life is quiet and disciplined—he often spends time alone in the hilly regions of Hungary, writing, travelling, and reflecting on the philosophies of Chinese and Japanese culture.
Ahmed Rafiq (born 12 September 1929) is a veteran Language Movement activist and a Rabindra researcher, as well as an essayist, poet and columnist of repute.
