Shuprova Tasneem

The truth is that women are at risk of violence regardless of whether they work in homes, factories, fields or offices.

According to media reports, there are around 3,310 seats at halls but at least 12,000 students unlawfully inhabit them, with up to 12-15 students living in one room.

To be seen, to simply exist and take up space – on sporting fields, in courts of justice, on buses and in public office – shouldn’t have to be a revolutionary act.

If people in a country with so much development and progress can’t even expect to have a dignified life, or death, then what was it all for?

The next stage of Bangladesh-India relations should involve long-term, innovative projects.

Rohingya human rights activist Razia Sultana talks to Shuprova Tasneem from The Daily Star on Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day.

Media has a responsibility to stop sensationalising stories about women and focus on the wider inequalities that affect them.

Every death is a tragedy, but when a young life is cut short, there is almost always a deeper level of empathy, a shared commiseration at the sadness of a life not lived.

On the occasion of Victory Day, Mofidul Hoque, war crimes researcher and trustee of the Liberation War Museum, speaks to Shuprova Tasneem of The Daily Star about the incredible journey that Bangladesh has gone through, and what must be done to preserve that history.

State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Murad Hassan has been made to resign from his post, at the specific instructions of the prime minister of Bangladesh, and women across the country who have been following the recent developments in this regard have breathed a collective sigh of relief.

A couple of weeks ago, I spent the night in a district town’s Parjatan hotel.

The first displacement happened in the 1950s. The Pakistani government acquired about 1,842 acres in Gobindaganj, Gaibandha in northern Bangladesh (erstwhile East Pakistan), promising both the local Santal and Bengali communities employment as labourers in the sugarcane farm that would be set up on that land.

Over the past few weeks, almost every day, we have read news reports on clashes in the lead-up to the November 11 union parishad (UP) elections.

What are the risks associated with workers’ protests in modern-day Bangladesh? When workers take to the streets, what sort of treatment should they expect to receive?

The Covid-19 pandemic has been hard for everyone, but it has been especially so on children.

Bangalee revolutionary, feminist and social reformer Leela Nag’s century-old ancestral home, in Panchgaon village of Moulvibazar’s Rajnagar upazila, has been destroyed.

After 543 days of school closure, one of the most protracted education gaps in the world that was caused by the Covid-19 pandemic,

When you first read it, it may seem like something scripted for the silver screen: the story of a Bangladeshi woman who is struck by an awful tragedy—her 17-year-old daughter lured away by traffickers and forced to work in a brothel in India.

“Thousands of garment workers yesterday returned to work in industrial belts in Dhaka and elsewhere amid the nationwide shutdown, raising fears of a rapid spread of the novel coronavirus…”—this was the first sentence in a report in The Daily Star that was printed, not today, yesterday or the day before, but on April 30, 2020.

Bangla-desh is facing one of its worst weeks since the Covid-19 pandemic first hit the country in March last year. On Monday, we saw the highest daily death toll since the pandemic began (164 lives lost) and yesterday, we had the highest number of new Covid-19 infections detected over 24 hours (11,525 new cases).