Frankly, I blame Henry Kissinger. Way back in the 1970s, he called Bangladesh “an international basket case”. At the time, no doubt, it was. Television images of the frequent devastating floods it suffered confirmed this characterisation. So the description stuck.

Long before August 2017, there were Rohingya refugees who lived in camps in Cox’s Bazar, who had left Myanmar decades ago.

The Indian Supreme Court’s order on February 13—making it mandatory for political parties to put on public domains like Facebook and Twitter the criminal cases that have been lodged against their candidates contesting elections, and to justify the giving of nominations to them once again—has moved the spotlight onto a major area of concern in the country’s electoral democracy: the growing criminalisation of politics.

Novel Corona-virus was first identified in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province, in early December 2019.

Earlier this month, Todd Phillips’ Joker enjoyed a tremendous night at the 92nd Academy Awards, picking up a whole host of Oscars including Best Actor for Joaquin Phoenix’s virtuoso portrayal of Arthur Fleck.

In an op-ed published on January 30 in The Daily Star, former Associate Editor Brig Gen Shahedul Anam Khan (Retd) described Washington’s Middle East “Peace” Plan as a “recipe for further conflict”.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina recently said, “It is not only Bangladesh, the whole world will need skilled manpower… and for that we have reformed our education system, giving priority to vocational training.

The corona-virus, which has already killed hundreds of people in China and is now making its way across the globe, will inevitably cause significant disruption to apparel supply chains during 2020. The question is, to what extent, for how long, and how will Bangladesh be impacted?

It was billed as a battle between the politics of welfare and the politics of strident nationalism centred on a changed citizenship law, which critics see as divisive. In the end, the former emerged victorious. That is how the results of the Delhi legislative assembly election turned out to be.

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

Bangladesh's economy is doing well; in fact, it is doing so well that economic growth keeps increasing, and with it increases our per capita income. However, in the middle of all this “good”, the world’s greatest Finance Minister, A H M Mustafa Kamal said, “The country’s economy is not doing so well.”

From its epicentre in China’s Wuhan, the deadly novel coronavirus has spread across the globe at tremendous speed, taking a heavy toll on human life.

An episode in UNICEF Bangla-desh’s popular cartoon Meena, the protagonist’s cousin Rita, a 15-year-old girl receives a proposal to marry the village shopkeeper’s son.

Despite the frequent media reports of rape in Bangladesh, existing studies suggest that most rape survivors do not take legal action.

The month of February is a prized and sacred one for Bengalis. It reminds us of the sacrifices made for our beloved Bangla language and the rewards it ultimately brought in for Bengalis as a nation.

The annual budget of a country is always accompanied by a build-up of expectations and suspense among the people.

As the coronavirus epidemic continues to rage and threatens to become a pandemic, the world remains in a state of paranoid vigilance.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) order on provisional measures issued unanimously by a full bench of seventeen Judges on January 23, 2020 in the matter of The Gambia v Myanmar is historically significant and an important development of international law.

Most Delhiites probably hadn’t heard the name of Shaheen Bagh until when, on December 14 last year, scores of women, majorly Muslim, sat in to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) introduced by the Narendra Modi-led Indian government.

In Satyajit Ray’s 1980 dystopian film “Hirok Rajar Deshe” (Kingdom of Diamonds), the king used several measures, such as high taxes, forced labour and brain-washing, to maintain a stranglehold on his people.