Last month in Savar, a father noticed an alarming change in his seven-year-old son after he returned from his madrasa: withdrawn and ill.

Last July, BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed said his party wanted the viva marks of the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination reduced to 50 from 200 to limit scope for discrimination in Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) recruitment.

Farmers across the country have been facing a fertiliser crisis for more than a month.

We may still be far from autonomous superintelligence, but the pace itself creates a safety problem.

Each union parishad has nine general wards and three reserved seats for women, elected by their communities. These reserved seats have opened an important route into public offices.

The 2022 estimates from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) recorded 1,67,256 new cancer cases and 1,16,598 deaths in Bangladesh in a single year.

For two years, citizens’ call to fill the vacant posts of the Information Commission of Bangladesh has gone largely unheeded, leaving it unable to perform its essential statutory role.

The 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) began on September 8 amid profound geopolitical and geo-economic uncertainties.

This year’s International Day of Democracy comes with a sombre reminder that, for the past two decades, the world has been witnessing a continuous decline in democracy.

Women in Dhaka already make calculations about getting home safely: which road should they take, would there be enough light, how many people might there be around, and whether they should call someone while on the way.

Women in Dhaka already make calculations about getting home safely: which road should they take, would there be enough light, how many people might there be around, and whether they should call someone while on the way.

Some of history's most stubborn repetitions are not failures of judgement but structural traps.

A state can criminalise enforced disappearance while preserving arrangements that make it difficult to prove the crime.

Allegations have emerged that legitimate institutions such as marriage registration and family visas are being used to take Bangladeshi women to China, where some are allegedly subjected to deception, coercion, physical torture and sexual exploitation.

When we see news reports that measles deaths have crossed 1,000, we pause, express concern, and discuss what should be done.

Although the term “economics of happiness” was conceptualised over half a century ago, it continues to pose an intellectual paradox for many.

How many persons with disabilities live in Bangladesh? It sounds like a simple question.

Bangladesh’s health sector stands at an important crossroads. On the one hand, we face the challenge of ensuring quality, accessible, and affordable healthcare for a large population.

By now, it is common knowledge that Bangladesh’s banking sector has several fundamental problems, with non-performing loans (NPLs) being the major one.

The debate over the recently passed Property Transfer (Amendment) Act, 2026—particularly the provision recognising a distinct form of property transfer that allows donors to retain lifetime usufruct rights—has again raised questions about the place of religious norms in the making of civil law. Some Islamist politicians and commentators have claimed that it violates Shariah provisions on property transfer and inheritance.