Christians and Muslims have spoken of their shared aspirations and hopes as both the period of Lent and month of Ramadan are set to begin. Following Shrove Tuesday, Lent will begin on Wednesday this ...

Muslims around the world are gearing up for Ramadan, the annual holy month, that is starting in just a few days. Ramadan is a period of prayer, reflection and abstinence that coincides with the ninth ...

As Bangladesh’s national election approaches, six constituencies in Rangpur district are shaping up for intense contests, with political analysts suggesting that the Awami League’s (AL) "reserve votes ...

On February 12, Bangladesh will head to the polls to elect its next government, 18 months after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted from office by a student-led movement. Hasina, the daughter of ...

Voting is under way in Bangladesh, where 127 million eligible voters are electing a new government 18 months after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted by a student-led movement. Hasina, the ...

For decades, Rangpur was the unshakable heartland of the Jatiya Party, where the Ershad family’s shadow dominated every ballot. Now, as the post-Uprising election approaches, that dominance faces its ...

No premodern poet praised coffee with greater passion than the North African jurist-poet Abu al-Fath al-Tunisi (d.1576). As he wrote in one of his ‘coffee poems’: ‘The status of the precious coffee of ...

MARK MITCHELL, RASMUSSEN REPORTS: Hello, public opinion, aficionados and welcome to Rasmussen Reports. And you're going to hear something a little bit different out of me today, a topic we haven't ...