You have perhaps heard the tale of these two neighbours.

Amid the ongoing global inflation and financial instability, the upcoming national budget has to be demand-driven and needs-based.

It seems the country’s health directorate has finally been jolted out of its stupor. At a meeting last Wednesday, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) came up with the decision of shutting down all unregistered health institutions within 72 hours. The countdown has thus begun.

Make sanitary napkins affordable and available to all women and girls

We must create an enabling environment for all women and girls

On August 20, 1999, over 5,000 slum dwellers mobilised from various informal settlements in Dhaka and gathered in the Supreme Court premises to protest the “wholesale eviction” that was underway that year.

While the better private universities have realigned their focuses on creating a "whole" education with a 360-degree perspective, the public system has reached the nadir from which students have a tunnel vision of becoming government cadres.

Menstruation or period is a natural phenomenon for women of reproductive age and indicates a healthy life. Yet, many people—both men and women—consider the monthly period cycle as an illness.

For that, the list of beneficiaries needs to be updated and accurate.

DGHS needs a realistic plan to bring unauthorised hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres under regulation.

How feministic is the female revenge fantasy in films?

India’s Neighbourhood First Policy once again faces a challenge in view of the economic meltdown and consequent political turmoil in Sri Lanka. India’s approach in dealing with the crisis in the island nation has been calibrated and cautious.

There is a peculiar trend in Bangladesh. When someone starts something innovative, then hundreds of copycats spoil it.

Stricter gun law is the only solution to such violence

If stopping wastage of money is the goal, a lot of holes will need to be plugged

Pakistan seems to be heading towards political confrontation following the government’s decision to ban the PTI march in Islamabad.

For quite some time, I haven’t been writing for national media outlets for reasons which I may share someday, if I think that would make any positive difference in the existing ecosystem of freedom of expression and journalistic values and ethics 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.

The issue of finance for helping the victims of human-induced climate change has now become the most urgent climate issue.

Authorities must answer for such wastage of public money