Not since World War II has the international community confronted as monumental a test as the intertwined crises of Covid-19 and climate change, and the profound social and economic inequalities they have exposed.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has done something daring to tackle air pollution in his city. First, he experimented with an Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), with an area designated as a congestion charging area about 25 years ago.

For development workers, especially those working for the rights and entitlements of the poor and vulnerable, a common question we face is how we should go about improving governance in Bangladesh.

There is hardly any positive news about our female migrant workers employed in the Middle East or those who have returned home from there.

The need of the hour is accountability, and that will not come out of writing endless reports

The two-week-long 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is scheduled to begin in Glasgow, Scotland on October 31.

“The outlook for LDCs is grim.”—the latest United Nations (UN) assessment of the prospects for the least developed countries (LDCs) notes recent setbacks without finding any silver lining on the horizon.

So far, hundreds have been arrested and around 85 cases have been lodged against thousands in relation to the communal attacks that took

Many have this image of a police constable as someone wielding his baton, chasing after peaceful bystanders, unnecessarily harassing the

Josip Broz Tito was one of the founding leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).

I grew up in a mixed family—my father was a practising Hindu and my mother was a practising Muslim.

Words are not enough to express our frustration about the way our female returnee migrant workers are being treated by their families and

Till 1990, we lived mostly under military ruling, apart from a brief period of three and a half years at the beginning.

An untimely flood wreaked havoc on the Teesta basin in Bangladesh, beginning on the night of Wednesday, October 20. A sudden onrush of Teesta water flooded the area to a level that has not been witnessed since 1968.

The instruction to unify the two offices first came from the prime minister in 2010.

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the restoration of the lawful seat of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the United Nations, a historic event that will be solemnly commemorated by the PRC.

Bangladesh has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. Studies have shown that the more a girl is educated, the lower the

According to Dr Firdausi Qadri, winner of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Award, Bangladesh needs to attain self-sufficiency in vaccine supply

On August 21, 2021, I lost a course mate, a fellow freedom fighter and a dear friend of mine, Major Muqtadir Ali, which was shocking to me, as he had always maintained a healthy lifestyle.

It is now well-recognised that the impacts of climate change will have significant economic costs in climate vulnerable countries.