Last month, shortly after the new Modi government came to power, the External Affairs Minister of India, Dr S Jaishankar, met his Bangladeshi counterpart AK Abdul Momin on the sidelines of the CICA (Conference of Interaction and Confidence measures in Asia) in Tajikistan.

The ongoing fiasco surrounding the quality of milk should alert us all. Media reports since the beginning of this year have revealed just how adulterated the milk we are regularly consuming is: antibiotics, detergent, bacteria, and even lead have been found in milk being sold in the market.

Bangladesh being the most downstream country in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basins is faced with the double whammy of too much water flowing in transboundary rivers in the rainy season (causing deluge) and too little flow during the lean season (negatively impacting the economy, livelihood, and the ecosystems).

The dynamics of nuclear proliferation in South Asia are driven by a need to establish some measure of relative parity against their principal adversaries—India against China and Pakistan against India.

South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon is visiting Bangladesh as part of a two-day official trip and it is expected that the outcome of the visit will be a milestone in deepening Bangladesh-South Korea relations. But how can Dhaka-Seoul ties be deepened?

Funds stolen by political leaders. School supplies siphoned off by a contractor.

The news on the possibility of the Sunderbans getting into the list of endangered heritage sites really struck me.

Each day, artificial intelligence and other innovative advanced technologies are bringing real benefits to our lives—from quicker and safer access to our mobile devices,

Going by numerous recent news reports, we have good reason to be worried about the state of food safety in the country.

Each day in garment manufactu-ring facilities around the world, including in Bangladesh, millions of metres of fabric are wasted.

The increase in world population by 2 billion in the next 30 years will present a serious global challenge, especially if we do not find new paradigms of development thought and renewed global political leadership.

On June 26, the contro-versial National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam was pruned down considerably. The names of slightly over

With a demographic dividend, fast-growing market size, a growing number of tech-savvy people, improved ICT infrastructure and rising broadband coverage across the country, Bangladesh has the potential of realising economic gains as the disruptive-technology-

The passing of Sharifuzzaman Choudhury was a very sad event for all of us who knew him and worked with him at the Institute of Water Modelling (IWM), and earlier at Danish Hydraulic Institute in the Surface Water Simulation Modelling Programme (SWSMP) in

Lately, it’s been nerve-shattering to follow American news outlets where the phrase—“detained child migrants”—is starting to mirror vicious buzzwords. Scareheads like “hundreds of migrant children held in internment camps” regularly precede a grim catalogue of

THERE is a telling anecdote about how Mashrafe Mortaza, Bangladesh’s talismanic ODI captain, developed his skills as a fast bowler. He was not a kid lucky enough to go to some fancy-pants sports training academy to hone his skills. Mortaza once recounted that he

It is a cliché to say that we live in a digital age, with many countries upgrading to become Knowledge Economies.

What’s a family? Classically, we think of a mother, a father and the children. The father goes out to work, the mother takes care of the children, maybe she works part time, at home or close to home so she can be there when the children get back from school. It’s a common formula in advertising, movies and the media. It’s the pattern of romance plots, the story of song lyrics, the image for illustrations in schoolbooks. It’s comforting, stable, predictable. And it’s wrong, for the majority of families in the world.

Last Sunday, June 16, I looked forward to being seated with friends in an arc around the TV set, ready to exult at the outcome of the Indo-Pak ODI at the Old Trafford in Manchester.

The population structure of any nation provides the country with a window of opportunity to reap economic and social dividends from the structure. In the language of demographers and economists, this is known as first demographic dividend.