Bangladesh has been generously sheltering more than 1.2 million Rohingyas on humanitarian grounds.

On March 21, 2022, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina declared 100 percent electricity coverage of the country. As one of the fast-growing economies in the world, Bangladesh needs a reliable energy grid, so this is a milestone moment.

The Annual Primary School Census (APSC) 2021 shows that enrolment in primary schools came down in 2021 from the previous year by almost 1.5 million, while the number of teachers decreased by over 83,000.

Cults—political and religious—can be long-lived and deadly dangerous.

Life in Dhaka provides a thousand reasons to feel hopeless and frustrated. Still, we can find hope amongst it all.

Funny how this question often preempts concern about the health of mother and baby. Why are we so obsessed with a baby’s gender?

When the troops were being pulled out from Afghanistan, I was thinking where the next theatre of war would be.

The draft Mass Media Employees (Services Conditions) Bill, placed in parliament on April 1, 2022, is a long-overdue initiative.

The postcolonial legacy of the Indian subcontinent is closely intertwined with frequent constitutional aberrations of an unnecessarily theatrical nature, by

The year 2019 was a turning point in Bangladesh’s history when it achieved self-sufficiency in rice production, more so considering that rice provides over 70

I joined The Rockefeller Foundation in January 2009 as the head of its health portfolio in Asia and was based in Bangkok, Thailand.

When the half crescent appears in the western sky to announce the advent of the holy month of Ramadan, some of our brothers in trade see it as a gold pendant hanging up there, while some others perceive it as a dollar bill.

It is time to reimagine our city—a city where I can ride my bike without being run over or recorded by a stranger, where Lata can wear whatever she wants, and Meem can ride her scooter home safely without being questioned about her clothes, her movements or her company. We cannot wait for the patriarchy to be fully “smashed” before we can imagine this city and claim it as ours.

Having been working for some years to understand the trends and traits of misinformation in the Bangladeshi online sphere, I often encounter

Are teeps truly a Hindu religious symbol?

Facing the ignominy of being voted out, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has taken an unprecedented step—advising the president for dissolution of the National Assembly and calling for early elections.

What hope is there for a country—soon to become a middle-income one—to be a safe one for its citizens if people are being killed on roads daily, with little intervention from authorities besides what’s on paper?

The spectre of “stagflation” threatens the world once again. This time, the risk is the direct consequence of political provocations and war.

I begin with an apology to my readers for my long absence. Covid played havoc with our lifestyle and livelihoods. Even then, we could make choices still within limited parameters.

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine rages on, one of the strangest spectacles is a bunch of video clips of Fox News Channel’s conservative