The world is facing an unprecedented crisis with the coronavirus pandemic. Day after day, all the failures in our economic and social systems, and our thinking processes are being revealed. We were aware of these failures all along, but we ignored them, and we let them grow worse each day. We knew about global warming and that it is worsening, as well as about wealth concentration, and that it is getting worse. We knew about the problems of poverty, healthcare, deforestation, plastic pollution, gender inequality, and numerous other issues. We knew how to solve them. But we did not mobilise our capabilities to end these problems. Why? One explanation may be: we are so 'addicted' to the present system that we do not want to disturb it.

This year, the theme of International Women’s Day is “Women in Leadership: Achieving an Equal Future for Covid-19 World”. When the United Nations chose this theme, the idea was to celebrate and recognise women’s leadership in confronting and tackling the challenges of Covid-19, both inside and outside the household.

This year, the theme of International women’s Day is “Women in Leadership: Achieving an Equal Future for Covid-19 World”.

As the world marks International Women’s Day in the midst of a global pandemic, one stark fact is clear: the Covid-19 crisis has a woman’s face.

The significance of the historic March 7 speech of Bangabandhu lies in the fact that it was extempore—that is, without any prior preparation—but which in effect prepared an entire population for an epic struggle leading to its emancipation from the shackles of a brutal, obstinate and autocratic establishment.

In the very first general elections of Pakistan held in December 1970, the Awami League won an absolute majority in the National Assembly. But for the Pakistani military junta as well as the Pakistan People’s Party head Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the desire to retain control of the central government took precedence over the need to abide by democratic norms.

They were both active, conscientious, thinking citizens. Both were passionate about social issues, and were gifted—one had a penchant for writing, the other for drawing cartoons.

Since the beginning of time, many distinctions have been made between men and women. The drawing of these dissimilarities has, more often than not, placed women at a lower station than men in terms of social and economic hierarchy.

Last week, the world media was flooded with the news of the faceoff between Facebook and the Australian parliament.

First of all, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is a statutory body tasked with combating, preventing and controlling corruption and also promoting the best practices in professional conduct.

The recommen-dation of the United Nations’ Committee for Development Policy (CDP) for Bangladesh’s graduation out of the Least Developed Country (LDC) status is both a matter of pleasure and of pride for every patriotic person of the nation. Faruque Hassan

Md. Mahbubuzzaman was born on November 25, 1929 in Rajshahi town, a stone’s throw from Rajshahi Loknath High School from where he and all his siblings passed their SSC exams.

During my childhood, in the late 1950s, I spent a jovial life in a remote (in those days) village named Borobari, Ballia in Dhamrai upazila in the Dhaka district, some 60 km north-west of Dhaka city.

A few days ago a news item carried by The Guardian, a UK daily, created a major stir in the national media of several Asian countries.

When we look at newspaper reports, what is the most common cause of mortality among Bangladeshis that we find? According to reports published in The Daily Star, road accidents killed at least 4,284 people and injured 9,112 others in 2017, while the figures were 3,412 and 8,572 respectively in 2016.

History often has a way of challenging our biases towards our present. Perhaps the one thing common to humans of all generations is our steadfast belief that our own time, unlike any other time in the past, is the most developed, the most inspiring.

Imagine for a moment you are a university professor, in front of you are seated 30 students, and you have their best interests at heart.

The construction of the Padma Bridge is expected to be completed by 2022, making it the 122nd longest bridge in the world and the longest bridge in Bangladesh.

A little acknowledged provision of the 2015 international agreement that curbed Iran’s nuclear programme explains jockeying by the United States and the Islamic republic over the modalities of a US return to the deal from which President Donald J Trump withdrew.

As vaccines begin to roll out, there is increasing awareness that vaccines are not the silver bullets to kill the pandemic.