A few years ago, Melinda and I visited with a group of rice farmers in Bihar, India, one of the most flood-prone regions of the country.

Rasheda K. Choudhury, Executive Director of Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE), a network of more than a thousand NGOs and educator groups working in the basic education sub-sector in Bangladesh, speaks to Nahela Nowshin of THE DAILY STAR and sheds light on the conditions and challenges of literacy in Bangladesh.

SOCIAL business has increased the importance of economic and social development in emerging economies. But research on this subject is still in a very nascent stage.

Terrible pictures were posted on social media of refugees from Syria and elsewhere, washed up on the shores of Europe.

Although Bangladesh has achieved a lower middle-income status, there are not enough jobs in the formal sector to absorb 1.8 million

Barely an hour's rainfall on the first day of September brought Dhaka city to a near collapse. Dhakaites all throughout the capital

Democracies celebrate Magna Carta, not war victory. Such actions only encourage Bonaparteism and, in no way, strengthen people's

Slovakia, the tiny republic in the middle of Europe has imparted a lesson that the high and mighty in a disordered world would do well

Two-term Governor of Louisiana, Piyush “Bobby” Jindal, the first Indian-American to be elected governor of a US state, is one of the 17

Perhaps it is nature crying due to the hike in power and gas tariffs. But all it takes is a daylong downpour and Dhaka is the new Venice

The concept of school psychologists is not well known in Bangladesh. Although in recent years we have been able to bring the issue of mental health to the fore, making provisions for having psychologists in school is still unchartered territory for us.

The proposed Rooppur nuclear power plant (RNPP) stands on the river Padma. Insufficient water in Padma will require the power plant to adopt re-circulatory condenser water cooling system to convert the used steam of turbines into water. The main devices on the

In an exclusive interview with The Daily Star, Peter Barcroft, Director of the Peace and Democracy Programme of Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA), talks to Amitava Kar about better regulating small arms and light weapon transfers worldwide.

ACCORDING to a report published by SKYTRAX, a UK based consultancy firm, Bangladesh's national carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines is one of the worst airlines of the world. Biman, alongside 20 other airlines of the world, received a two-star rating by SKYTRAX.

To enjoy the protection of the law, and to be treated in accordance with law, and only in accordance with law, is the inalienable right of every citizen, wherever he may be, and of every other person for the time being within Bangladesh, and in particular no action

Bangladesh has grown by around 6 percent per annum over the past decade and is expected to continue to grow at a similar rate over the next ten years.

Last week, a group of Japanese university students swept clean some busy dirt-filled street corners around Farmgate.

My mother was a great bedtime storyteller. A particular story was about her grandfather who was a chess player.

While any garbage is usually dissolved in the soil, nature fails to do so for plastic products, which remain indestructible for decades or even centuries. Burning plastic products is not a good solution either.

But it does not need Economist Intelligence Unit’s ranking for anybody to know that Dhaka has been rotting, stinking and becoming more terrible to live in every year.