Bangladesh has not become the second largest exporter of apparel because of media spotlight. Bad press affects us, but does not kill us, as we know how to rise from the ashes. Negative publicity may dampen, but does not annihilate us as we are far stronger than expected.

We respond to others based on our dominant language, but when their dominant language is not congruent with ours, our understanding may not be congruent with what they intend.

President Barak Obama's speech at the seventy first session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 20, 2016 carries great significance.

Speakers at a rally marking World River Day yesterday demanded steps to save Khowai and Sutang rivers from illegal occupation and

Throughout the 1960s, come every Ekushey February, we would see frantic efforts by mainly corporations, business houses and shop

You would think that the Information Age (spurred by the internet) has made us more aware and well informed about the challenges

There seems to be a very thin light of hope that the lot of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state of Myanmar may change for the better.

Readers may have read an introspective piece on 19th September under the caption 'The hanging of Mir Quasem Ali'. It was indeed

The authorities of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) are making patients and their attendants happy by delivering better

“You must be serious – waking me up to show me this? When we fly back to Detroit, I'll wake you up at the sight of every Continental, Northwest, Southwest, American, US Airways, Delta and TWA aircraft on the tarmac with a scream: 'Look! Those are all from the US!'”

The people of haor areas in Kamalganj upazila of the district have been living in fear for the last few weeks as the onrush of water from upstream in the Dhalai River has washed away many homesteads.

Wheat fields in the country's eight southern districts were affected with 'wheat blast', a disease caused by fungus, in February this year. There was no option but to burn all the affected wheat fields. This is the very first outbreak of such disease in Bangladesh.

The building that houses the Jessore Shahittyo Parishad is not much to look at. From its appearance, it's difficult to get a measure of the impact it made in its heyday.

Peace in South Asia is a direct function of the Indo--Pak relational dynamics.

Bangladesh has previously chaired both the LDC Group as well as the CVF and remains a senior member of both groups. It will thus have an important role to play at COP22 in Marrakech in November.

In our lives, we try and look for social proofs and replicate other events, other practices, other lives, et al. We also try and promote ourselves, our lives, our products with valuable virility. Most of us use social media to be viral. But being viral with responsibility is a difficult task and being responsible while reporting to the public is even more challenging.

Families of 28 underprivileged freedom fighters in the district are happy to have decent home, thanks to the government's initiative for ensuring residential facilities for the heroic sons and their successors.

Wastes of sacrificial animals are polluting the environment in the municipality as the authorities concerned have not

The Gogalichera River flowing through the haor area of the district has been leased out by the local administration,

China hosted the 11th G20 summit from September 4-5, 2016 at Hangzhou for the first time since the group formally started holding