Saturday. The wife is 400 miles away attending her MBA classes at University of California Berkeley. I am at the Torrey Pines Beach in San Diego, California.

How long does it take to bring down a 15-storeyed building? Certainly not three years.

Over the last decade, developed countries have contributed tens of billions of US dollars in climate finance to developing countries to

According to President Donald Trump, a great wave of change is blowing over the huge landmass of America.

It's time to start a #SheForShe movement. Unless women just stop expecting men to help them realign their statuses, then victory for women will always remain elusive. The only way is to help each other out, increase mentorship programmes and impact each other's lives.

The number of educated women has increased over time, but the rate of highly educated women is not as large yet when compared to men. Statistics show that women's educational attainment at the secondary level is higher than men. However, it starts to decline afterwards.

There has been a bizarre case of murder at the busy Kuala Lumpur Airport on February 13, 2017. Kim Jong-nam (46), estranged half-

The budget is a seasonal music that hardly runs out of notes. Most people criticise it as ambitious although that is how it ought to be.

The hiring manager at Takata Inc. in Farmington Hills, Michigan tells me, “We have seen tons of engineers, but none who has been in a Pepsi TV commercial.”

On February 23, the government announced that gas prices will be increased by 22.7 percent on average, across the board, in two phases, starting from March 1. The government last increased the price back in September 2015 and, before that, in 2009 and 2005.

It was a comical press conference between maverick Donald Trump and hard-nosed Benjamin Netanyahu on February 15, 2017 at the White House.

Just at the time when a major conference on the apparel sector of Bangladesh was held on February 25 in Dhaka with the promise to work together for a better tomorrow, disappointing news on labour rights in the readymade garments sector has surfaced.

The heart-rending episode of Mohammad Babul's 25-years-long imprisonment and acquittal thereafter without the charge being proved as reported in the media is by all means an indelible slur on our civilised existence.

Eight years have passed since the gruesome BDR massacre in 2009. The trial is in the process of conclusion, although several under trial BDR mutineers have died during the process, some due to heart attack.

Though I insist on his giving me the full address and directions to his home, he says with confidence, “Come to the Bakshi Bazaar

Despite the so-called bad governance, how has the economy of Bangladesh been growing at rates higher than those of most South Asian countries?

For the overall economic development of the country, the key roles will have to start with finance and banking sectors which can leverage both national and international capital to invest in the other industries and commercial sectors at a much larger scale.

We are proud. They want laptops to work on. This is what Sathy and Rokeya have written to me. Both are now studying at the Asian University for Women situated in Chittagong and are having the time of their lives.

It is ballot time for five Indian States to elect Legislative Assemblies. Elections are being held in Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand, Uttar

The two tests my school friends hated the most were English and Math. When I was a college boy at a Dhaka residential school, one of my friends did not eat egg for breakfast on the date of English exams lest he scores less in the subject.