The global fight against extreme poverty had been declared concurrently with the declaration of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), when world

About a couple of months ago, Planned Parenthood, (PP) the leading organisation well known for providing women with reproductive health services in the

Not that I am very keen, except maybe for a selfie with the doorman to the envy of my Facebook friends, I have over the past week discovered a sure way to be invited to the White House; more so because of Mark Zuckerberg's interest in the most ridiculous of science-related stories.

If there was any iota of doubt about the links between the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), Prime Minister Narendra Modi dispelled it. He presented his key ministers to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and asked them to provide information on the working of their ministries.

Few women have dared to do what Rebecca Lolosoli, a Kenyan, has done. Rejecting the patriarchal Samburu tribe she came from, she has created the ideal village for women where chauvinism, gender violence, and discrimination just do not exist. In fact, men are not allowed to enter the village unless they get permission from the women.

The abuse of our streets seems to have reached monstrous proportions. At the root of it all is a phenomenally growing aura of indiscipline that borders on the unbearable and challenges one's physical, emotional, and even financial endurance.

In the past week, waves of protest against the imposition of VAT on higher education brought Dhaka to a standstill, causing the denizens to take notice.

Delving on the issue of media-military relations (MMR) in Bangladesh may sometimes be seen as an acknowledgement of the existence of a state of tension which is not totally untrue.

Heads of states or governments of the world will meet at the United Nations headquarters in New York on September 25-27 to proclaim a new global agenda for sustainable development to be realised by 2030 (SDG 2030), replacing the Millennium Development Goals (MDG 2015), which was adopted 15 years ago at a UN Summit.

In the last decade a major change has taken place in our tertiary education. Gone are the days when only students from the upper class background - English Medium to be precise - would go to private universities in Dhaka, which now have pupils from faraway districts

On September 17, 1962, school student Babul, bus conductor Golam Mostafa and domestic worker Waziullah sacrificed their lives in support of the movement of students. The movement initiated by students, for the cause of education in then East Pakistan in the early

In spite of significant progress in economic growth, most societies these days face intractable maladies in terms of rising inequities, crime, marginalisation of the disadvantaged, denting of democratic values, falling moral standards, etc.

With the existing Dhaka Metropolitan Development plan (DMDP) 1995-2015 mostly unimplemented, and its term expiring this year, Rajuk has embarked on drawing up a new master plan.

We had the Dhaka Metropolitan Development Plan (DMDP) previously, the duration of which was 20 years, from 1995 till 2015. There were three stages of that plan: Structure Plan for the whole city area, Urban Area Plan, which was for ten years, and Detailed Area Plan (DAP).

It was about a year and a half from the day the Kalurghat factory in Chittagong was set up; so, the year was probably 1981. When I asked the great man

We all know the idiom -- to shoot out of cannon into sparrows. It is a moral principle that discourages us from taking unnecessary, widespread, indiscriminate means and measures against someone. In the legal field, a similar concept is known as the Doctrine of Proportionality.

The past week, on September 8, the world celebrated the International Literacy Day. This year's theme “Literacy and sustainable societies”was particularly significant considering the recently declared Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets. SDG 4 is to "ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and

How do we measure good health care? Historically, we counted the number of hospital beds or measured the distance to a local health clinic. We then added up the numbers and decided where to build a new or larger hospital.

I recently lost two friends in quick succession - Mr. Jamaluddin Ahmed and Mr. Rezaur Rahman. All three of us were graduates of Chittangong Commerce College and all three of us were chartered accountants.

Dr Sanchita Banerjee Saxena shares with Amitava Kar of THE DAILY STAR some views on the impact of US trade policy on Bangladesh and the role of interest groups in policymaking. Dr Saxena is the executive director of the Institute for South Asia Studies (ISAS) at the University of California at Berkeley, USA and the director of the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies. She is the author of Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garment and Textiles Industries (2014, Cambria Press).