Two important members of our South Asian community stand as examples of how not to run a country.

Its obligation is to the people only

When the long-serving managing director of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) assures us that the foul-smelling tap water

I joined The Rockefeller Foundation in January 2009 as the head of its health portfolio in Asia and was based in Bangkok, Thailand.

When the half crescent appears in the western sky to announce the advent of the holy month of Ramadan, some of our brothers in trade see it as a gold pendant hanging up there, while some others perceive it as a dollar bill.

Sri Lanka is known as the country of smiling people because of their friendliness. But recently, the island nation has been experiencing an explosion of pain and anger.

The international system changes with the passage of time—strategic, political and economic compulsions act as the causative factors.

It is time to reimagine our city—a city where I can ride my bike without being run over or recorded by a stranger, where Lata can wear whatever she wants, and Meem can ride her scooter home safely without being questioned about her clothes, her movements or her company. We cannot wait for the patriarchy to be fully “smashed” before we can imagine this city and claim it as ours.

Such animated discussions benefit both govt and the public

In Dhaka, we don’t live anymore, we merely survive.

Setting a unique example of diplomatic nicety, US President Joe Biden wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that he was confident

Having been working for some years to understand the trends and traits of misinformation in the Bangladeshi online sphere, I often encounter

Are teeps truly a Hindu religious symbol?

Govt must critically assess and provide assistance to those in need

People of the third gender, known as hijra, are one of the most discriminated against and vulnerable communities in Bangladesh. In our society,

We are heartbroken by what is happening in Sri Lanka. Years of mismanagement and nepotism, followed by the Covid-19 pandemic and

Facing the ignominy of being voted out, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has taken an unprecedented step—advising the president for dissolution of the National Assembly and calling for early elections.

Shobuj, a young man from Tangail, in his late twenties, was reluctant to comply with his supervisor’s instruction to enter a sewage pipe for maintenance work without an oxygen cylinder.

What hope is there for a country—soon to become a middle-income one—to be a safe one for its citizens if people are being killed on roads daily, with little intervention from authorities besides what’s on paper?

Install automatic location identification system, address manpower crisis