Stefania Maurizi is an investigative journalist working for the Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano. She has worked on all WikiLeaks releases of secret documents and partnered with Glenn Greenwald to expose the Snowden Files about Italy.

Chattogram is well known due to its diverse natural aesthetics—with its mountainous terrain, flowing rivers and coastal plains.

Bangladesh’s elite law enforcement force, the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), which has been subjected to a sanction by the US, has now been applauded by the same government for its role in tackling terrorism, according to some media reports.

In 1971, when Bangladesh emerged victorious from the Liberation War, many doubted that the country could survive as an independent state.

According to the latest report of the US-based NGO Global Financial Integrity (GFI) on trade-based illicit financial transfers, between 2009 and 2018, Bangladesh lost a staggering USD 8.275 billion (Tk 71,000 crore) per year, on average, through misinvoicing in export and import trade.

Do we know about the realities of children in newly poor households? According to a survey conducted by the Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) and Brac Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), the number of new poor in August 2021 reached 3.24 crore.

The importance of a robust Right to Information (RTI) regime for a healthy and vibrant democracy is universally recognised.

When it comes to business ownership, women just need fair and equal access—something easier said than done. Centuries of common practices and processes have created fundamental gender-based access disparities.

Does the news of the Biden administration’s sanction on the elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and seven officials indicate a changing US foreign policy under the Biden administration?

How time flies.

In this digital age, we frequently perform various transactions online. While doing so, how are we identifying ourselves, or verifying that we are the authorised persons for said transactions?

The Government of Bangladesh has recently drafted the Mujib Climate Prosperity Plan Decade 2030.

On a symbolic visit to Kigali, Rwanda this year, French President Emmanuel Macron recognised France’s extensive role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, asking for the “gift of forgiveness” from those who survived the atrocities—without, however, putting forth an official apology.

On the occasion of Victory Day, Mofidul Hoque, war crimes researcher and trustee of the Liberation War Museum, speaks to Shuprova Tasneem of The Daily Star about the incredible journey that Bangladesh has gone through, and what must be done to preserve that history.

The commemoration of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary, and the celebrations centred around Bangladesh’s 50 years as an independent nation state, will conclude at the end of the calendar year 2021.

As children and others continue to die on our roads, we ought to reconsider just how highly we value our current traffic system.

Power with wisdom is a blessing for mankind; power with arrogance and vices is a threat.

The UN General Assembly (UNGA), during its 76th session, adopted a resolution on Bangladesh’s graduation from the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) category, scheduled to be effective in 2026.

I would wish these pages were not only an anthology of eyewitness accounts. People of my generation have experienced enough horror to be, alas! no longer shocked. And human nature is such that it is rare that horror does not breed horror.

On the eve of our victory day, on December 15, 1971, at around 4:30 pm, my father Dr Abdul Alim Choudhury was sitting on the balcony of our house with my mother, watching the Indian MiG fighters bomb the few Pakistani strongholds still remaining in Dhaka.