The effect of urbanisation is two-fold. On one hand, it boosts development indicators such as economic growth, productivity and

Insurance was Buksh's passion. He earned a reputation as the “wizard of insurance.” Through his dynamic leadership, he created jobs for thousands of young people while also inducting the leaders of the insurance industry.

It was December 6, 1971 in the White House situation room when the joint forces of Bangladesh and India were quickly marching towards Dhaka.

Unlike many other sub-continental countries, one of the major limitations in designing ICT based services for the rural farmers in Bangladesh is the low literacy and technology adverseness.

REMEMBER the early morning of January 4 this year, when we were jolted by an earthquake that scored a 6.7 on the Ritcher scale?

THOSE who have visited Kolkata, New Delhi, Amsterdam or New York will certainly acknowledge the effectiveness of metro rails in

It is still unclear to me what led to this Eureka moment (there were some family business interests but those, obviously, did not compel the move). Did he have a sudden epiphany triggered by something he felt, read, or experienced?

Should we be surprised that police did not find their own fault in the assault of Rabby, the Bangladesh Bank official, who was picked up by a patrol police team while he was coming out of an ATM booth late in the night, tortured and then robbed? We strongly believe such incidents should not be probed by police themselves but by a separate body. The National Human Rights Commission can coordinate such probes.

The high-profile arrests and deportation of 27 Bangladeshi workers from Singapore for planning violent attacks overseas may have caused some Singaporeans to wonder about Bangladesh and its people. The truth is that the country is a secular, moderate nation with a Muslim-majority population.

The hospital walls are plastered with photos of the late philanthropic founder of the hospital. Has his dream and vision come true? The hospital has clearly degenerated into a commercial proposition.

The year 2015 was not kind to the world's second-largest economy. Growth slumped to a 25-year low. The stock market experienced

1988. Bangladesh Short Film Forum was working hard to organise the first short film festival in the country.

AROUND 80 percent of the world's men and boys will become fathers during their lifetime, and virtually all men have at least some

How much difference can a year make? Not much really. Perhaps it is incremental only when some economic indices fluctuate either up

Many years ago, in 1992, after Amartya Sen had just moved to Cambridge, USA, to take up his residence at Harvard University, I met

Recently I heard a rather bewildering story on teaching in higher education. Taught to depict a triangle as ABC, a student wrote PQR

The train arrives at the station, and where the platform begins, a white concrete plaque with dark letters in Bangla announces the name

It is one thing to be a key cabinet minister in a government and quite another once the trappings of power are gone. Does a politician

Both General Yahya Khan and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto were desperate to 'finish off' Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Things were moving in their desired direction, according to the conspiracy they had hatched.

The latest tiff between Saudi Arabia and Iran has been a decade in the making. The execution of a Shia cleric, the subsequent storming