The right to vote is a funda-mental right of citizenship, and this right is not affected by where a citizen chooses to live,” said Jean-Pierre Kings...

Development should not come at the cost of the environment and ecosystem, because in that case, it will not sustain.

Bangladesh has always been a country of promise, hope and progress, amidst the common plight faced by a developing nation.

This International Women’s Day, let’s #beboldforchange, and make kicking like a girl a compliment.

What does it mean to be a 'citizen'? Does being a citizen simply mean having the right to live in one's birthplace, having the right to vote, and being accorded the formal recognition of basic rights and liberties?

A recent video circulating on Facebook, created for February 21, starts with a living room scene in a well-off household. A young girl of about eight or nine years – a house maid with bedraggled hair and a tired face – walks past her employer's daughter who is roughly as old as her.

Most of us have heard of the Second Industrial Revolution that took place in the Western world in the period preceding World War I.

A group of teenagers spray-painted a historically black school with racist and anti-Semitic messages recently in Virginia. The judge, as reported by the Huffington Post on February 7, 2017, served the young men an unusual punishment: writing reports on a list of books and movies, besides also visiting a Holocaust museum and doing research on the swastika.

It is hardly a run of the mill event when nine of the most highly populated countries (Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan) get together to discuss the challenges of achieving the goal of Education for All.

The 21st century began 17 years ago with the heady fear of the Y2K virus. If you are a digital native reading this article, there is a good chance you have no idea what I am talking about.

15-year-old Adnan Kabir's death at the hands of teenage gangs has come as a shock to many adults, especially parents who had no inkling of the existence of such gangs.

The reason why a critical rethinking on development should be the norm in Bangladesh is a potential decline at the front of culture. Indeed there is a soft and almost subjugated cultural outcry, not audible enough to reach the pundits of development.

Furthermore, blanket blocks on pornographic websites have been tried and consequently discarded in developed and developing countries around the world without much success and noticeable improvements, the internet is way too vast, expansive, and free for such measures to bear any fruits.

A young woman I know was telling me about her son, a student of class three, a few days ago. While fiddling with her son's tab, she found some disturbing sites -- all with adult or pornographic content.

Even though Jatio Muktijuddha Council promises that “all the Birangonas will be recognised in due course of time,'' the fact remains that most of them have already died and those who are still alive may not live to see it, given the state of bureaucracy.

The biggest mass poisoning by toxic medicine in the world in the last one hundred years perhaps occurred in Bangladesh as more than 2,700 children died in a decade since 1982.

The queues in front of the immigration desks were long, practically filling the hall, and people waited impatiently to get through to the equally overcrowded baggage reclaim area. At any other time, this scene would have elicited a frown or had me groaning in dismay but on this occasion the buzz of activity and the sheer number of people provided a huge sense of relief.

It is remarkable that despite constantly being held back by a patriarchal society, women in this country have been able to stride forward and reach remarkable heights.

Cities have always been important to Asia. As Charles Tilly remarks, “Cities emerged in Asia, and in terms of sheer man-years lived in cities, Asians have more urban experience than the rest of the world put together”.

World Bank President Jim Kim spent the last two days in Bangladesh to assess its growing prosperity and to mark on Monday the international day to end poverty.