In 2019, Taqsem A Khan, managing director of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa), faced huge public outrage for saying that the water supplied by Wasa was 100 percent drinkable.

I often feel a visceral pain just thinking about raising our children without having them read the treasure of Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam,

Do the official inflation figures in Bangladesh reflect the actual inflation faced by the economically marginalised households in the country?

The other day, a technician came over to fix my internet connection. He was a computer science graduate. But this is a job that any vocationally-trained person could do well—it doesn’t require a four-year university degree.

Before Ukraine was invaded, it received strong assurances from the US and the UK that they would stand beside the country if it’s attacked. Europe in its entirety, too, had vowed to stand with Ukraine.

In 2014, UK-based surveillance watchdog Privacy International published a procurement tender document issued by the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) showing they were looking to buy mobile phone surveillance equipment known as “IMSI Catchers.”

An article in this daily, titled “Women don’t want to be superhumans” (published on February 2, 2022), has inspired me to write this column.

Despite the higher authorities’ public expression of dissatisfaction with frequent revisions of government projects, the practice of taking projects to ECNEC meetings to be granted deadline extensions, design changes, expansion of scope and budget enhancements has continued unabated.

After two years, it is no wonder that people are fed up with the changes the Covid-19 pandemic has inflicted on us.

Moving from a unipolar world to a multipolar world was always likely to be messy and risk-prone.

Writer Mushtaq Ahmed paid the ultimate price for his freedom of expression, and it’s a matter of shame for us all that it happened in the year of the Golden Jubilee of Bangladesh’s independence.

It all started when a public interest litigation was filed in the summer of 2020, alleging infringement of constitutional rights due to the government’s failure to regulate content in over-the-top (OTT) media services.

We have been seeing a downward trend in the supply of locally produced gas for a while now; yet there have been little efforts to explore potential gas reserves, even though Bangladesh is known to have a considerable amount of gas reserves still unexplored.

The government has prioritised digitising public services in Bangladesh since 2009. Digitised government-to-person (G2P) payments reduce the costs, uncertainties, and process delays associated with service delivery.

We are all well-versed in enumerating the most prominent social problems in our country and can probably elaborate on each eloquently.

Today, February 23, is the first death anniversary of noted journalist, columnist and author Syed Abul Maksud (1946-2021).

In a recent press briefing, Justice Obaidul Hassan, chair of the Search Committee for the Election Commission (EC), confirmed their decision not to disclose the names of the 10 individuals they will recommend to the president to constitute the new EC.

Johurul Islam of Gaibandha was a remittance fighter. He was barely 18 when he left Bangladesh to work as a construction worker in Malaysia.

There was little cause for geopolitical optimism in 2021, and this grim trend has continued at the start of 2022.

Since its creation in 2004, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has always faced trust and credibility issues.