Political violence remains inseparable from Bangladeshi politics and election violence is an integral part of that violence.

The banning of the bowling actions of two Bangladeshi players of the national team have not only incensed millions of Bangladeshi cricket fans but even the skipper of the Bangladesh national cricket team, Mashrafe Bin Mortaza.

The news that foreign hackers attempted to off $101 million from Bangladesh Bank's account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York need not be viewed as a catastrophic failure...

Worldwide, pregnancy and child birth place one of the biggest demands on national healthcare systems. Between 1990 and 2015 the number of women dying in childbirth worldwide fell 44 percent according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The ultra poor generally do not own land and are caught in the low-wage activities of day labourers. They are on the brink of subsistence. And when you are struggling just to maintain your level of subsistence today, you do not have the luxury of worrying too much about—or saving for—tomorrow.

When it came time to send that first e-mail, “I looked at the keyboard, and I thought: 'What can I choose here that won't be confused with a username?' If every person had an '@' sign in their name, it wouldn't work too well.”

News of reprehensible activities of cross border human traffickers has begun to resurface.

Even the skies are shooting water cannons at the ticket scalpers around Mirpur Stadium.

Should we save the Sundarbans? How can we save the Sundarbans? Can we risk the existence of the Sundarbans for a power plant?

More than anyone else in Bangladesh's history, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman enjoyed a relationship with his people.

Bangladesh has big plans for the next five years. By the time the 50th anniversary of independence arrives, and as part of its Vision 2021 plan, the nation aspires to achieve middle-income status.

Bangladesh experienced over 200 natural disasters since 1980, leaving a total death toll of approximately 200,000 people and causing economic loss worth nearly $17 billion.

My mother's preoccupation with women's education went beyond her family. She would help any woman wanting to advance herself, through education and through jobs.

Here is a common perception in Bangladesh that religious communities generally live together in peaceful coexistence and have done so since the beginning of time.

Like many misdirected activities, the Fisheries Academy now trains cadets to serve ocean going merchant vessels as it is more lucrative than serving fishing vessels, thus nullifying the academy's original purpose.

7th of March was a call for an armed struggle because of the futility of a constitutional redress to the pangs of the Bengali nation which was starkly demonstrated before the political leadership.

Here were expectations that the aggressive Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi might lead the attack on the Modi government...

The avalanche of Donald Trump's presidential campaign success reached new levels this Tuesday...

It seems these days in Bangladesh we are either forced or almost obliged to give personal, sometimes very private, information to some national bodies

What is missing from NHRC's actions is that it has not done systematic monitoring of the health services prevailing in the country, and has not taken any strategic action to improve them.