The Rohingya camps, with growing cases of drug and arms smuggling, violence, homicides and other illegal activities, is increasingly becoming a security threat for this country.

When the Rohingyas in Myanmar’s Rakhine State were facing a brutal military crackdown in late August, 2017 and found the doors of neighbouring countries closed -- Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had taken the bold decision to give them safe refuge in Bangladesh. And now, after four years, more than a million Rohingyas are still waiting for a solution to their exiled lives.

For the last 41 years the Soviet Union and USA used Afghanistan as a playground for geopolitics.

Import ban, so what? There are ways to sneak those in, through the country’s main airport even.

Within just a few hours, more than 50 people became homeless, as their houses were engulfed in the riverbank erosion caused by the untamed Jamuna.

Dhaka is again at the bottom of EIU’s Global Liveability Index -- this time ranking 137th out of 140 cities.

Record high foreign reserve, unprecedented remittance inflow -- every year new records surpass the old ones. But the people who carry the burden, whose odyssey bring the much-coveted foreign currency for the country, the expatriate workers from Bangladesh are left deserted in systematic neglect.

Two cases of black fungus infection have been reported in Bangladesh. Now doctors are suspecting its association with a death.

​In a democratic system, where power comes from the masses, where the state works for the people -- information ensures that governance is accountable. It is the primary job of a journalist to secure the people’s right to know.

Going against all national and international predictions, Bangladesh has seen unprecedented inflow of remittance throughout this ongoing pandemic -- surpassing the $20-billion mark in the first 10 months of this fiscal year.

Dhaka has long been detached from the lush green identity of typical Bengal delta. This concrete labyrinth, full of dust and chaos, now has the last residues of green. But does urbanisation come only at the cost of nature? Does construction really need a barren foundation? Why is Dhaka failing to embrace nature as her innate part? Can this still be redeemed?

Bangladesh's position in the World Press Freedom Index is declining every year. In 2021, Bangladesh ranked 152 out of 180 countries. Bangladesh ranks lower than India, Pakistan, and even Afghanistan, in the index.