Govt must ensure good governance and accountability from the very beginning

Years ago, when I was about eight-years-old, I heard a teacher say that a woman’s lungs are stronger than a man’s.

From a small village-level local government election to the larger parliamentary polls, every election is a learning opportunity – that’s the beauty of a working democracy.

Well-known civic rights activist Mizanur Rahman’s narration of his harrowing experience of being picked up by police and tortured under custody, published in this newspaper’s online version on June 15, gives us some disturbing snapshots of the unlawful actions of our law enforcement agencies.

Proposed hefty fines for journalists are unrealistic

International community must put pressure on Myanmar to expedite the process

A record 100 million people are currently displaced around the world. Almost one million of these refugees live in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar.

The 2022 JRP has five strategic objectives to support the affected Bangladeshi and Rohingya populations.

There’s a whole calculus about good refugees and bad refugees, and how many of which must be welcomed where.

“We have been victims of genocide for decades and acknowledged as the most persecuted minority, yet the world has cared little about our legitimate rights and claims. It is time we took charge of our own destiny.”

We have not seen such devastating floods in the country since 1988. Every year during monsoon, the haor areas of Sylhet and Sunamganj districts experience flooding – but it has never been this catastrophic.

It was pitch-dark when I entered Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital on Saturday afternoon. The ground floor was submerged in knee-high floodwater. I climbed up the stairs to the first floor to find an elderly patient named Ana Miah lying on the floor.

Why not let all legitimate recruiting agencies send workers there?

Coordinated efforts needed to save life and minimise damage in Sylhet

A power shift in Myanmar and the subsequent polarisation among major powers triggered a new geopolitical flashpoint in Bangladesh’s strategic backyard, which the latter cannot afford to ignore.

After quenching their lurid lust for power and property, funded by slavery and wholesale loot for centuries, leaving behind a trail of torture, murder and injustice, Western colonialists began to spread the word of the holy books,

The budget for FY2022-23 is filled with rhetoric. But its credibility is poor because of its contradictions between the priorities and the actual allocations for education, agriculture, health, and the vulnerable population.

The just completed Cumilla City Corporation election was a “test case” for the newly formed Awal Commission.

Creating new political leadership will be a distant dream otherwise

Urgent humanitarian aid needed in flood-hit northeast