Tasneem Tayeb

Dengue cases are on the rise again, with fatalities recorded almost on a daily basis.

How many women or girls in our country get the opportunity to chase their dreams?

With fatalities declining and people getting used to living with the virus, adherence to social distancing protocols has been mostly absent from public life.

What does the repeated violation of Bangladesh’s land and airspace by the troublesome neighbour signify?

Private sector companies who daily contribute to plastic pollution must come up with ways to manage it.

Many Rohingya women and children who managed to flee rape and genocide in Myanmar end up in the trap of sex trade and trafficking inside the refugee camps in Bangladesh.

We have to understand that these are displaced people living in a perpetual state of uncertainty.

Men who raped Bilkis Bano during 2002 Gujarat riots allowed to walk free on the same day that PM Modi promised to make the nation a better place for women.

Is the central bank enabling loan defaulters with its policies?

The ongoing attacks seem premeditated as they come as part of a well-coordinated package.

It seems Joe Biden has gone back home with very little to show for gains, and a lot of bad headlines that will haunt his media team.

We are still in the midst of a pandemic, although at times – especially when Covid is less active – we seem to lose sight of it and take on a more complacent approach in our fight against the pandemic. 

Bangladesh’s struggle with smuggling is not a new phenomenon.

Over the last few years – under the BJP government – India’s religious polarisation has increased in degree and intensity.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has placed a controversial suggestion in his budgetary proposal: money launderers – read financial criminals – will be allowed to legalise their laundered money without having to face any questions, if they pay a meagre 7-15 percent tax.

The Chattogram depot fire has once again exposed the severe negligence in the handling of hazardous chemicals in Bangladesh.

More than 215,000 people in Bangladesh succumbed to pollution in 2019. The ever lurking, at times invisible, killer—air pollution—alone claimed about 175,000 lives.

Biman is once again making the headlines and, as usual, for all the wrong reasons.

Occupation forces storm Jenin and besiege a house in the Jabriyat neighbourhood. On the way there, I will bring you news as soon as the picture becomes clear,” emailed Shireen Abu Akleh to Al Jazeera at 6:13 on Wednesday morning.

In an unprecedented move, the parliamentary standing committee on housing and public works ministry has directly recommended a major development project—to build an offshore smart city claiming land from the Bay of Bengal—directly to the prime minister.