Many are the number of universities in Bangladesh, both public and private. Large numbers of students graduate every year from these institutions. But how many of them really experience the joy of learning? This question must be answered by the country’s academic institutions.

How should we see our students: as customers or products? In my four-plus decades in academia, I have seen them quite differently: as co-creators of knowledge.

In 1971, the Pakistani military junta wanted to prevent Bengalis of then East Pakistan from pursuing their just demands by using brute force.

The Covid-19 pandemic in Bangladesh, particularly during the period of the lockdown, has seen a significant increase in the reported cases of sexual assault, harassment and abuse of women and girls.

A controversial energy company, forced to wind down most of its operations and exposure in Bangladesh following a popular opposition from the local population, is now claiming Phulbari’s coal deposits as their resources.

In Bangladesh, the Covid-19 pandemic hit economic players all at once.

Covid-19 has generated hugely distressing effects on the economy of Bangladesh.

In the last four years, President Donald Trump has defunded social programmes, rolled back civil rights protections, and overturned federal protections of land at lightning speed, while carrying on an unrelenting spectacle of suffering.

The video of a gruesome act of sexual violence on a woman in Begumganj, Noakhali that went viral in early October, and the subsequent reporting on the incident in various media outlets had led many to questions—was it rape or could it be called an attempt to rape, or was it a sexual assault?

In the last decade, freedom of expression has been in the decline globally, from authoritarian to traditionally liberal states.

Usually a day before the US election, it can be predicted who is going to win. But the current President Donald Trump won the 2016 election despite the survey results saying otherwise.

Barely a month had passed since one of us wrote about rape, scopophilia and collective rage, and barely a day since we began an intergenerational dialogue on gender, rage and violence, full of hope at the emergence of passionate and resourceful young allies, when the world dutifully punched back.

There is an especially strong South Asian focus in the coming US elections. Not just because the Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris has an Indian heritage, but also because South Asians of all stripes have the potential to swing the election -- especially true in key battleground states such as Texas and Michigan.

The world’s urban future is full of challenges. But one of the greatest among them is a simple but profound one: the universalisation of urban problems and their generic solutions.

Today, Americans are terrified of a pandemic virus whose infection rate has spiked up again. With just four percent of the world’s population, the US already has a quarter of the world’s Covid-19 deaths.

Covid-19 has affected millions of people globally including unprepared city authorities and governments. Over 95 percent of the cases are in urban areas, making this pandemic an acute urban humanitarian crisis.

On October 25, 2020, a 14-year-old girl from the Kalia village in Basail upazila, Tangail, reportedly died due to excessive genital bleeding after being admitted at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).

China loomed large over the in-person visit of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defence Secretary Mark T Esper to New Delhi on October 26-27.

“My son did not get the job because they said he lacked the digital skills needed for it,” Asma Begum confided to me as we sat outside her house in Gowainghat, Sylhet.

A 14-year-old child bride in Tangail’s Basail upazila has died just at the “right time”.