Tasneem Tayeb

The rough way in which even stalwarts like Tamim and Shakib are handled speaks volumes about the overall mistreatment of players by the BCB.

Drug lords are finding innovative ways – including manipulating the desperate Rohingya refugees – and new routes to bring drugs into the country.

Despite the Smart Bangladesh Vision 2041 turning into a central theme of the nation’s futuristic progress narrative, the digital divide remains a major issue.

What kind of a country do we live in where 60-year-olds are forced to pull rickshaws to earn livelihood?

Are we becoming complacent regarding our love-hate living arrangement with mosquitoes?

The decreasing number of poultry farms raise fears that there might be a shortfall in the supply of poultry in the market, pushing the prices up further.

Turkey is heading for a run-off election that many international media outlets are terming “knife-edge,” and rightfully so, as vote banks are witnessing an almost 50-50 divide between both Erdogan’s ruling party (AK Party) and CHP’s Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu-led opposition coalition, called the Table of Six.

It is a well-known and generally accepted fact that Biman is a cesspool of corruption and mismanagement.

Cox’s Bazar is already ecologically vulnerable, especially in the aftermath of the clearing of more than 8,000 acers of reserved forest land to accommodate and provide for the Rohingya refugees.

The authorities have, over the years, failed to ensure dignified rehabilitation of the victims in the aftermath of evictions.

Why have we done so little to ensure safety and dignity of our future generations?

While it is important to update textbooks with recent events, a deliberate attempt to rewrite history is highly irresponsible.

The international community is rightfully saying that the junta is using legal instruments to gain legitimacy in the political landscape through a staged, superficial election “process”.

It is high time the government and policymakers took this problem seriously.

With Ramadan coming up, people’s woes will increase.

It’s high time Biman was overhauled and corporate governance and a stringent code of conduct was introduced.

Criminals like Samrat, Khaled and Mominul should be miles away from the political scene.

The international community cannot turn their backs on the Rohingya refugees.

Death toll in Syria currently stands over 5,800 (as of 3:30 pm Bangladesh time, February 15). With every passing hour, chances of finding survivors are becoming slimmer.

Like every year, our banking sector had been in the news in 2022, and mostly for the wrong reasons.