If we track the history of floating agriculture in Bangladesh, we may find six major phases. It is difficult to pinpoint when floating cultivation began in Bangladesh—the current reckoning goes up to 400 years ago.

If the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that the healthcare system and related organisations must build resiliency to withstand the shocks that may come their way, and be in a position to pursue the opportunities that rapid and significant change can create.

Gender stereotypes like the notion of women belonging in the kitchen may seem trite and overdone, but these continue to have an effect in a culture that devalues women by asserting that it is their sole duty to cook.

The Covid-19 pandemic has become a protracted crisis and will be with us for an indefinite period of time.

The ongoing Tokyo Olympics is the latest sporting event where the trend of taking the knee by players has made its way in.

Over the past year or so, my Facebook feed has been flooded with posts of people visiting St Martin’s Island.

At the last count, there were 114 tigers in 2018 as per the Bangladesh Forest Department—an increase of eight since the 2015 tiger survey.

According to data provided by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the number of internet users in Bangladesh stood at 11.61 crore in March 2021, up by 12.48 percent year-on-year, whereas the number of mobile phone users stood at 17.46 crore in March 2021, up by 5.62 percent year-on-year.

The Pegasus spyware controversy has set off a political storm in India. Sustained anti-government protests by the opposition on the floor of the House paralysed almost the entire first week of the monsoon session of Parliament from July 19.

I attended a training course at the US Army Armor School at Fort Knox, Kentucky in 1989 where I learnt something interesting about US Army engineers.

The idea: In a webinar organised by the World University Network last month, the discussion focused on how to expedite the diffusion of evolving medical technology innovations in the delivery of healthcare in the developing world.

The tech and cyber worlds were outraged this past week as the Pegasus Project investigation unveiled the massively unethical software hacking and data leak by use of spyware.

In 1895, while studying past Ice Ages, Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius showed that if carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were halved, temperatures could decrease by about five degrees Celsius.

Over the past several decades, Bangladeshi women have made tremendous strides forward simply by stepping out of their homes and participating more in the economy.

As human beings, we enjoy the right to think and express ourselves.

Bengali cuisine in its most primitive form is perhaps a paradoxical phenomenon worthy of deeper socio-cultural research.

Dhaka University was born out of a struggle by the people of east Bengal for asserting their regional identity.

During the Covid-19 lockdowns, men have been performing more care work than any other time in recent history.

Life has changed in so many ways due to Covid-19, this one change may not even have registered for you. But with restrictions on motorised transport, people are walking more than ever. Much of it is by necessity, but sometimes the necessary can also reveal hidden pleasures.

As a child, my weekday dawns consisted of walking five or so minutes to the spot from where my school bus would pick me up.