The Ministry of Education has planned for a radical change in the existing curriculum from primary level to higher secondary level.

December is the month of victory. We fought for our flag, our land, and our independence. We celebrate it every year.

It was reported in the press that a teacher who topped the list in the primary school teachers’ recruitment examination 12 years ago did not get the job.

Having grown up in Dhaka in the early 1950s, I am aghast at the way we are erasing our architectural heritage.

The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has caught almost every country off-guard, requiring painful adjustments to the new reality.

December 20 marks the 89th birthday of Badruddin Umar.

The history of human beings is a history of being driven basically by collective interest, not by personal interest. Economists made us believe that we are driven only by personal interest, and act accordingly through profit maximisation.

The Covid-19 crisis is impacting women and men differently, depending on the sector they work in, the fragility of their employment situation, their access to labour and social protection, and their care responsibilities.

The importance of international migration in Bangladesh can hardly be overemphasised. Bangladeshis constitute the fifth largest migrant community in the world.

The Academic Experience Project has already highlighted several significant and strategic themes that deserve greater attention of the policymakers and administrators in higher education.

The history of human beings is one driven by collective interest, not by personal interest. Economists made us believe that we are driven only by personal interest, and act accordingly through profit maximisation. It is time to restore our core identity by making businesses serve society’s needs first and foremost; profit cannot come at the expense of human well-being, and life.

I started dating him at the young and impressionable age of 19. He was a year older than me.

In 1970, there were approximately 40,000 Bangladeshi expatriates living in Britain.

The ubiquity of the word "secularism" (it is mentioned in more than 75 of the world's constitutions as an ideal the State promotes, or an organising principle that it affirms), and the passionate discussions it generates throughout the world, sometimes distracts us from the fact that its origins are relatively recent.

If one must identify the fundamental premise of the founding of independent Bangladesh, it is democracy—we can claim

If one must identify the fundamental premise of the founding of independent Bangladesh, it is democracy—we can claim that democracy was the raison d’etre for establishing the country.

During the 1971 Liberation War, the Pakistan Army’s 9th Infantry Division was deployed in the Khulna region.

Bangladesh belongs to a select group of countries that fought their way to independence. We won our freedom by winning a fierce nine-month Liberation War against a very well trained, well-armed Pakistan Army.

The emergence of Bangladesh as an independent state on December 16, 1971 was a major event in the political history of the subcontinent, whose significance needs to be studied from different perspectives. This does not mean an immersion in the past, but rather an exercise for the future.

As Bangladesh steps into 50, the people of this country can rightfully be proud of a rich heritage of her story—a story of struggles, movements for