For Nasima Begum, a 40-year-old who works as a domestic help in the capital’s Mirpur area, balancing between her paid and unpaid works has become a daily battle ever since she came to Dhaka in search of a livelihood.

The March 7 address by Bangabandhu—the great poetry of our emancipation—is a time-tested speech. This great speech still ignites people.

In a column published in The Hindu, the former Indian PM has made a heartfelt appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to convince the nation not through words but deeds:

Globally, the latest threat to public health is the “Coronavirus Disease-2019”, (CoViD-19), which is essentially a respiratory disease.

Recently I went to Banani kitchen market for my weekly shopping and I saw, to my astonishment, the retailer putting all the purchased items in several polythene bags which were completely banned in Bangladesh in 2002.

It would be an understatement to say that women in Bangladesh have always had to struggle to get anywhere.

Since its inception in the early 2000s, social media platforms like Facebook have mainly been used by people to stay connected with their friends and family.

As tens of thousands of refugees shiver in the cold on Turkey’s borders with Europe and a new phase of the brutal Syrian war erupts, Russia, Turkey, the European Union and the international community are being presented with the bill for a flawed, short-term approach to the nine-year old conflict that largely lacked empathy for millions of victims and was likely to magnify rather than resolve problems.

If you look at the major cities around the world, from New York to London, you will find the Rohingya are there.

In the early 1990s, playing arcade games like Mustapha opened a whole new world for Bangladeshi children. Fast-forward to the modern day, and technology has accelerated the growth of a new generation of gamers in our country.

Bangladesh has been experiencing robust growth in global integration over recent years.

"Each monumental space becomes the metaphorical and quasi-metaphorical underpinning of a society, this by the virtue of a play of substitutions in which the religious and political realms symbolically (and ceremonially) exchange attributes—the attributes of power.” —Henri Lefebvre.

"Lekha pora kore je, gari ghora chore shei!”— an idiom very familiar to Bengalis that promises “cars and horses”, in other words, wealth, provided we studied sincerely.

The recent economic slide notwithstanding, India is seen by the United States as the anchor of regional economic and security cooperation not only in South Asia but beyond it.

The news that the Bangladesh government is going to reduce the rate of interest of bank loans has, in general, been considered to be a positive one by businessmen. At the same time, it has not been received as favourably by depositors, since the rate of deposits will now also be reduced.

According to the latest Labour Force Survey (LFS) 2016-17 of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), about 44 percent of workers are self-employed—individuals working for their own household farm or non-farm enterprises.

In the age of information and communication technologies, the flow of information is fundamental to doing business in the global economy.

Every day’s headlines tell us that the climate is changing, from wildfires in Australia to the suspicious absence of snow in Moscow.

The first academic journal, Le Journal des Sçavans, was published on January 5, 1665 from Paris. Over the past three centuries—according to the latest STM Report 2018 by the International Association of Scientific,

Iqbal Karim Hasnu, an author and film critic, currently based in Toronto, is also the founding editor of Bangla Journal, an annual semi-academic bilingual (Bangla and English) publication coming out of Canada.