Mohammad Al-Masum Molla

Five years ago, they were the first to welcome with open arms the thousands of Rohingyas fleeing persecution in Myanmar, setting an example of how compassionate our society is here in Bangladesh.

When Abdul Hakim landed on a remote island in the Bay of Bengal some 20 months ago, finding a job was his main concern. There were little to no employment opportunities in Bhasan Char when he arrived in the first batch from a cramped Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar.

For Shamsul Ahmed, life in the Rohingya refugee camp is now much better than it was five years ago, but his heart longs for home. 

You only need common sense to know that “open secrets” are also secrets.

The country’s population is still predominantly young, but a sharp increase in the proportion of those over 60 years of age could leave it ill-prepared to provide them with care.

More than 22,000 people in the capital died due to air pollution in 2019, says a global report.

When a political party in Bangladesh decides to have a dialogue with the Election Commission (EC), what do they expect?

Bangladesh is wasting its once-in-a-lifetime window of demographic dividend --  the economic growth potential that can result from a peak in working-age people -- due to its inability to create jobs.

Floods, low rainfall and then fertiliser price hike -- the woes of farmers just won’t stop. And now, they will have to bear the brunt of a sudden 42.5 percent rise in diesel cost, which is likely to make them spend an additional Tk 4,000 in irrigation for per hectare Boro production.

After a spell of extreme heat and scanty rain in the last two consecutive months, farmers across the country were expecting favourable weather for a good harvest of rain-fed Aman paddy, which accounts for 39 percent of total grain production.

Bangladesh has become a role model for lower- and middle-income countries in administering Covid jabs to its population, said US Deputy Coordinator for the Global Covid-19 Response and Health Security Laura Stone.

While monsoon is supposed to be at its peak in July, the country witnessed less than half the average rainfall during the month this year.

When the CEC has to say out loud that his office has its backbone in the right shape, you know that something is not right there.

In less than two decades, the number of people exposed to flood risks rose by 1.5 crore, around nine percent of the country’s population, due to human settlements and infrastructural developments in floodplains, says a study.

After years of decline, the number of Bengal tigers has seen a slight increase globally.

Bangladesh’s population growth rate has slowed over the past four decades, a decline that experts attribute to massive family planning campaigns and the country’s socio-economic advancement.

For the first time, a population census has found that there are more women than men in Bangladesh.

In view of certain “recent occurrences”, the foreign ministry recently wrote to all foreign diplomats, UN representatives and international organisations in Dhaka, urging them to maintain the diplomatic norm and protocol.

Dhaka has lost around 56 percent of its green spaces over the last three decades. In 1989, this mega city had 12,745 hectares of vegetation, which came down to just 5,599 hectares in 2020, a new study has found.

Lamiya Ashraf Mowla, a Bangladeshi-born astrophysicist, is a proud part of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team.