Mohammad Al-Masum Molla

With the next general election due in 2023, nobody really knows whether Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the main political opposition in the country, will participate in it.

You are vulnerable to toxic air even when you stay home. 

With the next parliamentary elections just one and a half years away, fresh debates over using the electronic voting machine in polls have taken the centre stage in the political arena of late.

Should the Election Commission take the controversial route of using EVMs in the next general election?

One in four healthcare professionals engaged in treating Covid patients in Bangladesh had suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a government study has found.

The illegal entry of Rohingyas into Bangladesh from India over the past three weeks has triggered a fresh concern as the new inflow will create an additional burden for the country already hosting one million of the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals.

Pollution caused over 2.15 lakh premature deaths in Bangladesh in 2019, according to a new global study.

The BNP will take strong punitive measures against the party men running for Cumilla City Corporation mayor as the party is hell-bent on not contesting any polls under the incumbent government.

The Awami League’s hints at an all-EVM national polls will only raise the BNP’s distrust of the ruling party, political analysts have said.

The recent statements by the Awami League high-ups that electronic voting machines will be used in all constituencies in the next general election have triggered a fresh debate, as the BNP vehemently opposes it while the Election Commission remains undecided.

The BNP boycotted the national election under the Awami League government in 2014. It then participated in the 2018 polls under the AL government. On both occasions, the party gained nothing.

Awami League lawmaker Haji Salim has reportedly returned to Dhaka from Thailand.

You must have been taken aback by the title. However, for the past 12 years, iftar has been served at this US church every Ramadan.

Upon his arrival in the small town of Chop, located in western Ukraine, Ismail Ferdous witnessed first-hand the devastating consequences of war.

If you want to lead a quality life in a city, Dhaka is not the place you should be looking for.

The government is going to undertake a major survey to assess the animals that Bengal tigers prey on in the Sundarbans and also monitor the current situation of the habitat under a new project of the forest department.

People in Bangladesh every day inhale an alarming amount of black carbon, a particle not only harmful for human health but also responsible for global warming.

Bangladesh ranks seven out of 10 countries in the Asia-Pacific region that extract the most groundwater, found a recent report by the UN.

With the national election in mind, BNP has intensified its efforts to complete the district councils as soon as possible and beef up the party’s organisational strength.

BNP, if invited, will not join the ongoing dialogue on finalising the roadmap for the next general election as top party leaders believe the incumbent Election Commission cannot hold a free and fair election without a polls-time neutral government.