Back in 1972, my husband brought home Mugal, a boy of about 10 or 11, to assist me in household chores. Mugal's father handed him over to us saying, “I am giving my only son to you for his future”. Perhaps my husband's office assistant had

If you had Tk. 250 billion to use for Bangladesh's future, how would you choose to spend it? That would alter the spending of

Those who knew Ali only through his hyperbolic self-promotion would have found his mix of play and purpose strange but that was Ali. Beneath the bluster was a serious soul who thought deeply about race, responsibility and justice and how they shaped him into who he was.

It is hard to believe that Fahim is no more; it seems like a bad dream from which we will wake up to see his ever smiling, jovial and pleasant face, cracking a joke or pulling somebody's leg.

We can all agree that in recent years, there has been a tremendous increase in the number of Bangladeshi students who achieved GPA 5

The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), one of the top think-tanks in the country, has stated in its post-budget assessment that we will

The militants seem to have set their eyes higher this time by targeting the dear of a police officer who is said to have played a key role in combating militancy.

At the recent launch of her newest audio CD, Gane Gane Nazrul Jeeboni, after seeing some foreign nationals in the audience...

The passed away, in his sleep, I hear; leaving us, his family and friends, to awaken to his unfathomable, unacceptable absence, almost as resounding as his laughter, his jovial voice, and his life-affirming joyful presence.

Writers around the world fiddled with many words over half a century to define the aura that Muhammad Ali exuded. But eventually they all had to settle for The Greatest, the title with which Ali famously introduced himself after knocking out a fearsome Sonny Liston to become the world heavyweight champion some 52 years ago.

A crowd of camera lights flashed simultaneously as I entered the hospital, unaware the news which would devastate my life forever.

The education system in Bangladesh is flawed, and a TV station recently took it upon themselves to point out exactly how flawed it is.

It is somehow taken for granted, by students and parents alike, that there is a fundamental difference between students of Bangla medium and English medium schools. This division carries on to higher education as well.

I reached Phnom Penh on a late summer night in 2011 after twenty-some hours of flights from Washington. The airport had a mofussil feel.

It’s cliché to say that education is the backbone of a society, but sometimes it's imperative that we remind ourselves of the

As the UN prepares to celebrate the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers on May 29 this year, Bangladesh will be

He US presidential election campaign is a fascinating case study on how politics overwhelms better judgment. The case in

Provincial assembly of Punjab in Pakistan did nothing wrong by passing a resolution recently seeking conferment of Nishan-e Pakistan on Jamaat-e-Islami leaders executed for the crimes against humanity during Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971. Its action is justified because Jamaat leaders had sided Pakistan occupational army to carry out genocide on Bangalis. Their goals were the same.

Islamic State (IS) is losing territory, its finances are being drained and the number of foreign fighters recruited has reportedly down to a trickle, dropped by as much as 90 percent from a high of 2,000 a month in the past year.

We are extremely grateful for the timely initiative of the education minister, whose ministry reinstated Shyamal Kanti Bhakta, the