Depression is a common illness worldwide, with more than 300 million people affected. Depression is different from usual mood fluctuations and short-lived emotional responses to challenges in everyday life. Especially when long-lasting and with moderate or severe intensity, depression may become a serious health condition.

The internet is abound with stories of how sports can, and is, changing the world. How it helps build physical fitness and traits of teamwork, respect, and resilience.

While we, the “digital immigrants” had to adapt to the digital revolution that we initiated, digital natives were born and raised up in it. There was no period of discovery of and learning the use of a new tool as it were, rather a natural order – in their minds, the way things have always been.

The ensuing visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina may open new horizons for collaboration in the power and energy sector. Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal can not only develop long term energy security for sustainable economic development but can also export power and energy to other countries.

It would be superfluous to repeat here the details of the mass killings and systematic sexual violence committed by the Pakistani military on Bangladeshis in 1971.

Military pacts or defence deals are always struck by two states or more, out of a common threat perception.

There needs to be a drastic change in the way antibiotics are prescribed by doctors and used by patients, since this has been a key contributor to resistance.

I read with interest a recent story on Dhaka, the city where I was born, on the pages of this newspaper.

Women members of the mobilised groups proved as better 'husbands' of local resources, establishing a culture of their sustainable use, while conserving and improving the quality and quantity of local natural resources.

The War of Liberation took innumerable lives away from families in Bangladesh. My family was fortunate enough to have been spared;

When, in March 1971, my eyes first beheld the radiant facsimile of the flag of Bangladesh – the small handprint of my deltaic

The world has made it so that existing as a woman has become an act of political warfare.

The 17 Sustain-able Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development were adopted on September 25...

As a student of English literature, “Eshob pore ki hobe?” is a question I've had to face on a near-daily basis.

Ashocking fire broke out at Korail slum, the largest slum in the city which encroaches upon Gulshan Lake, on March 16, and left thousands of people homeless and wounded.

In a post liberation war period, an epidemic of severe dysentery emerged in a small island in the northeastern part of the Bay of Bengal named St. Martin's island. It is about 9 km south of the tip of the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf peninsula, and is the only coral island of the country.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 are reported to be receiving serious attention from the government and civil society in Bangladesh.

Last month, a professor of gender studies of the Department of Development Studies, Dr Md Reazul Haque, was suspended following allegations of showing “obscene material” in one of his classes.

The demand to decommission and demolish the Farakka barrage is getting louder in India.

A woman writer writing for The Daily Star on the occasion of International Women's Day? Is this symbolism par for the course, gently egged on by the male editor of this reputable newspaper, or are we breaking new ground?