An icon, a visionary, a trailblazer for women of this country, is no more. Nurjahan Begum, the editor of Begum, the first weekly

As targeted killings of individuals with unorthodox views and members of minority communities continue unabated in Bangladesh, so

We have become familiar with the term biodiversity today due to the Convention of Biological Diversity [CBD] that was

My heart aches as I write about my teacher and colleague. It is often said that the dead are more powerful than the living, and that

Media’s power to shape public opinion is succinctly captured in a story from Peru, dating back to the 1990s. Alberto Fujimori was the president of Peru then, but the country was actually run by his Secret Police Chief, Vladimiro Montesinos Torres. Montesinos did so

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs in the world – that is, when someone is planning to do it right.

He looked at life, its beliefs, its ramifications, and his work from a niche of insularity. He was not prejudiced against any belief, did not behold hatred of any stripe, and had never been a foot soldier of any virulent nationalist credo.

In the old home, the octogenarian mother was smiling ear to ear, her toothless gums slurping over the words as she talked to her son over the phone. A colourful greeting card she held trembled, as her hand stricken with Parkinson's started to shake.

If Robert Frost, the man who wrote “Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less travelled by”, was looking for a modern holiday destination, he may have considered a trip to Bangladesh.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, according to The Times of India (March 27, 2016), claimed during a Sunday Times interview

Ours is a democratic country. That's precisely why democracy has been embodied as one of the state principles in the Constitution of

Most people living in the United States know little about the International Workers' Day of May Day. For many others there is an

How are our workers? How well are they playing their role in the development of the country? Has the government really become

The Asia-Pacific region's successful achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development needs to be driven by broad-based

I approach the immigration point at Kuala Lumpur Airport. There are the usual signs – 'Malaysians' and 'Foreigners'. What catch my eyes

From the insiders of the RMG sector, there is an indication that both the Accord on Fire and Building Safety (hereafter the Accord) and

Three years ago, the world witnessed the Rana Plaza building collapse - one of the most horrific workplace accidents that could have

Bangladesh Government Proposes a Tk. 15 Carbon Tax”. This headline would have been unthinkable even a decade ago. However, it

Three years have elapsed since the collapse of Rana Plaza, Savar, on a fine morning of April 24, 2013. The disaster, one of the deadliest

In a country where corrupt practices dominate traffic rules and laws, the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has prepared a draft law under which police would not require any warrant to arrest anyone for violation of traffic rules. Police lodge around 70,000 cases a month and there is a huge backlog of cases. Will this new law, if passed, help the situation?