The new Dhaka Structural Plan (DSP) has been proposed with a vision of “making Dhaka a liveable, functional and resilient metropolis respecting local socio-cultural fabric and environmental sustainability.”

“Girls do not look smart, they are pretty”—said a five-year-old Bangladeshi boy after a comment by the mother that his sister (three years old) was looking “smart”.

Women spend around 200 million hours every day to collect water across the globe. According to Water.org, finding a suitable place to collect the water can take an additional 266 million hours each day, especially for the women who do not have toilets in their homes.

In our heart of hearts, we always knew it would end early.

We are living in a world which has been primarily shaped by a number of democratic countries over the last 70-plus years, following WWII, in which economic institutions have promoted movements of goods, services, investments, people, idea and technology from one end to the other, leading to mutual prosperity.

Newspaper articles published on the military coups held in Dhaka in November 1975 are often coloured by the authors’ political standpoints and ideologies.

The World Bank has been leading other multilateral development banks (MDBs) and international financial institutions to press developing country governments to “de-risk” infrastructure and other private, especially foreign investments.

Water and sanitation are critically important to the health and survival of Bangladeshi communities. But, do decision-makers adequately prioritise and invest in the sector?

In 2020, Covid-19 touched our lives in nearly every way, everywhere, as countries went into lockdown and restricted movement to contain the spread of the virus. As doors closed and isolation began, reports of all forms of violence against women and girls, particularly domestic violence, began to rise.

I do not know how to respond to this barrage of apocalyptic news from Dhaka.

Along with many other countries in the world, Bangladesh is currently observing the UN system’s 16 days of activism against gender-based violence—an annual international campaign calling individuals and organisations to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls.

I have written my life story from the time that I can remember till early 1971. It was published by Ittadi Prokashoni. The one I am writing is the second part where I talk about my philosophy of life; so much happened after independence—theatre, love, marriage, children.

November 25, 2020 marked the beginning of the UN Women’s worldwide annual 16 days of activism against gender violence.

John Denver felt at home in West Virginia. Similarly, students want to feel at home in their academic institutions. At least that’s what a recent survey by The Academic Experience Project, conducted on university students of Bangladesh, has shown.

The freelance contracting model or gig work is attractive for companies because it allows them to outsource risk to those who toil. Many workers also enjoy the flexibility allowed.

On November 11, Fitch Ratings, a highly reputed international credit rating agency, affirmed a stable outlook on the sovereign credit rating of Bangladesh.

It is hard to believe that three children still die of pneumonia every hour in Bangladesh, according to a recent Prothom Alo report.

In 2015, Salma’s husband and his parents held her down and poured nitric acid down her throat because they wanted more than the Tk 100,000 (USD 1,100) that her parents had already paid in dowry.

"The demonstration of superfluous consumption amidst mass hardship must be eliminated. Thus sumptuous hotel dinners, the exhibition of costly jewellery

Bangladesh has come a long way in its fight for women’s advancement.