In February 2021, hundreds of members of the Mro community marched from Chimbuk Hill to Bandarban town, protesting the construction of a five-star

While Covid-19 captured the attention of the world for the last two years or more, another pandemic has been silently killing countless numbers of people around the world.

City suffers from innumerable problems on all fronts

While violence against women in general is prevalent across the country, the situation is worse on all fronts for indigenous women.

The 5th summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) ended on March 30, 2022 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Recently, the mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation recommended an odd-even-car-rationing solution to Dhaka’s perennial traffic problem.

Bangladesh has recently achieved a unique milestone: it has become the first country in South Asia to have 100 percent electricity coverage.

Making cities like Dhaka women-friendly and climate-proof requires a whole-of-society approach.

Demands made in parliament must be taken seriously by govt

I was really embarrassed to read my uncle’s post on social media, where he wrote that his trip to Bangladesh was a great one but he didn’t like

It is heartening to see ordinary people in the country’s northern region taking it upon themselves to turn hazardous waste, such as discarded

In 1985, at the height of the Cold War, Hollywood produced a movie called “Rocky IV”, a typical good-American-bad-Russian story.

Every year, the Economist Intelligence Unit publishes a list of liveable cities in the world, where Dhaka is inevitably placed near the bottom.

According to a recent report, due to the insistence of lawmakers, the government is going to repair religious establishments and build new bridges across the country at a cost of Tk 5,132 crore.

Why is a man seen as the default protector to a woman? Why do we believe that a woman cannot protect herself—let alone decide when she does or does not require protection?

Why has it failed to fix breaches in its supply lines?

This is what a middle-aged Rohingya man, living at a makeshift camp in Cox’s Bazar, who crossed over to Bangladesh during the 2017 exodus of Rohingyas fleeing military persecution in Rakhine, Myanmar, said when I asked him how he was.

“Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber, and as deadly as a hitman”—these were the words of Ronald Reagan during his campaign for the US presidency at the beginning of 1980s.

As we build our way to becoming a middle-income country, it is saddening that our children’s education is so vulnerable to a pandemic.

Most people abhor wars in which innocent lives are lost and people are maimed and injured. And so, all wars should be condemned.