The beginning of our constitutional discourse was promising. The 1972 Constituent Assembly (CA) of the newly-liberated Bangladesh produced the constitution in only nine months, a much shorter period compared to other countries except a few like the United States.

Bangladesh, which was once dismissed by former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as a "basket case" after its birth in 1971, is en route to becoming one of the "Asian Tigers".

The Minimum Wage Board (MWB), formed in October 2019, declared a draft wage structure for tea garden workers through a gazette notice published on June 13, 2021.

I have already spent the biblically allotted three score years and ten on this planet, and of these, roughly two-thirds have been associated with Dhaka University, first as a student and then as an academic.

Over the last few years, the participation of female workers in our ready-made garments (RMG) industry has been on the decline. A survey by the Asian Centre for Development reported that 65 percent of workers in the sector were women.

In a futuristic convocation speech, Sir Philip Joseph Hartog, the first vice-chancellor of Dhaka University (DU), stated: “A man may be an excellent teacher of elementary subjects without the power to add to knowledge.

I can’t believe it’s been five years that you’ve been gone. It feels like we were sitting in the room we shared and talking, just the other day.

July 1, 2020, was the day our father, Mr. Latifur Rahman, the Founder of Transcom, left us.

There is something surreal about Bangladesh’s wetlands. Miles of beautiful scenery, of sparkling shallow waters surrounding patches of land full of greenery.

Graduation from the Least Developed Country (LDC) group to developing country status is a milestone in our development journey, and it will certainly improve Bangladesh’s image globally.

Travelling was my hobby before I emigrated to Canada. During my trips both within and outside Bangladesh, I always tried to taste local and regional food to appreciate the culture of the place I visited.

More than two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, we have witnessed how it has not only caused a public health crisis across the globe but also brought us face to face with a myriad of socio-economic challenges.

The infection rate and deaths from the coronavirus have been increasing after the Eid-ul-Fitr holidays. On June 26 the infection rate was 22.50 percent (with 4,334 cases) and there were 77 Covid-related deaths, fuelled by the Indian Delta variety, which is a lot more infectious and deadly.

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) kill 41 million people globally every year, more than a third of them prematurely. The four major NCDs—

The rise of hardline President-elect Ebrahim Raisi has prompted some analysts to counterintuitively suggest that it could pave the way for reduced

With its geography largely consisting of low-lying delta plains and its high-density population, Bangladesh is exceptionally vulnerable to climate change.

Muhammad Ayubur Rahman Bhuyan, a long serving faculty member at Dhaka University’s economics department (1970-2004), was an outstanding colleague to fellow academics, a dedicated teacher, and an eminent scholar.

Coming out of Trump’s “America First” policy, US President Joe Biden is robustly engaging his allies in his global vision. After the virtual Leaders’ Summit on Climate in April, three months after taking office, he joined the G-7 summit in Cornwall, UK on June 11-13.

A 17-year-old girl in India hanged herself after a friend posted intimate photographs of her on social media to take revenge.

We all share one planet, and so essentially we are all neighbours, yet the inequality between affluent nations and impoverished countries is stark.