For the first time in years, voters across Bangladesh felt they had taken part in a national election without fear.

While farmers in other parts of the country are improving their livelihoods by producing high-quality crops using modern methods, many in the agriculture-dependent northern Rangpur region remain tied to the “poison tree” of tobacco.

There is clear evidence that learning in multiple languages, starting with the mother tongue and then gradually adding national and global languages, is good for cognitive abilities and does not impair language skills in second and third languages.

Many of us remember the child in Taare Zameen Par-misunderstood, labelled lazy, punished for academic failure-only begins to flourish when a teacher recognises his dyslexia.

The rise of battery-run auto rickshaws has changed the rhythm of Bangladesh’s streets. They are fast, affordable, and everywhere.

Baikka Beel, a wetland now facing a deepening crisis of protection, was officially closed to public access a year ago.

Every year, during the month of October, UN-Habitat encourages us to engage in Urban October—a time for reflection and conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the rapid pace of change in our cities and towns.

The most invisible and unheard communities in Bangladesh include, among others, ethnic communities or adivasis, tea workers,

At the heart of Bangladesh’s brick kiln industry lies a recruitment system that quietly sustains inhumane exploitation.

Following the August 2024 uprising, every peace-loving citizen of the country hoped for radical change at all levels of state governance.

Imagine a child ripped from its mother’s embrace, shackled in heavy metal chains, subjected to systemic starvation, and relentless beating until resistance gives way to fear.

A historic decline in fish stocks in the Bay of Bengal is reshaping both the marine ecosystem and the lives of thousands of coastal fishing families.

What was once an art of resistance has become a struggle for survival.

Although globally listed as Least Concern, national mapping can be misleading.

Bangladesh’s public health story is often told through the lens of hospitals, epidemics, and human suffering.

The Tangail saree has travelled far. Once woven quietly in riverside villages, it now appears in fashion catalogues, festival exhibitions, and heritage headlines.

The Ashtomashi Badh, or eight-month embankment, historically shaped the southwest coast of Bangladesh into an ek fosholer desh—a single-crop landscape—where peasants cultivated rice once a year using fresh water.

At the beginning of December, a lioness named Daisy slipped out of her cage at Mirpur National Zoo for a few hours, sparking panic and a rushed evacuation.

But beneath the surface of religious fervour lay a more calculated motive.

For char residents, this unequal exchange is not new.