Following the US elections on November 3—although its final resolution may take longer—the partisan arrangements of almost the entire US federal government are subject to change.

The world has been hit by a “black swan” event, a term used to describe an unpredictable incident that has large-scale economic and social implications.

A 14-year-old child bride in Tangail’s Basail upazila has died just at the “right time”. I say right time because her death, coming as it did against the backdrop of the call for reforms in rape laws, shows exactly how outdated, discriminatory and futile our laws currently are. In the coming days, unless we have something even more horrific, I assume she will be the subject of multiple op-eds like mine. That is “lucky” considering how most rape victims barely get assigned a number in the news cycle.

Healthcare delivery in nearly every country has been disrupted by policymakers’ mistaken initial assumption that health systems would quickly win the fight against Covid-19.

During a run for essentials, I ran into a graffiti on a wall at a Philadelphia exit ramp: “Civilisation is pandemic.” On any other day, I would not even think twice about such a street-smart philosophical pronouncement.

From an unprecedented shutdown of activities due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the country is gradually moving to a new normal situation.

We may blame Covid-19 for drawing our attention away from biodiversity conservation. But the truth is, for a long time, we have been talking about biodiversity a lot, rather than saving it.

No doubt that in rape cases, DNA evidence can strengthen investigations and prosecutions.

Now that the Presidential debates are over, the public debates on whether there will be a change in the White House come November gathers momentum.

AK Fazlul Haq burst into an all-Indian national political scene through the 1937 elections for the Bengal Legislative Assembly.

Our planning minister has recently remarked that the discrepancy in wealth distribution is not just an accident, it has been happening due to some in-built injustices in society and the state.

We all know how fish is a vital source of protein for people and fishing is a livelihood that millions depend on.

It the donors’ conference co-hosted by the US, UK, EU and UNHCR on October 22, the international community pledged USD 597 million in humanitarian assistance for the Rohingya.

To understand what a well-developed e-commerce ecosystem can do for Bangladesh, you wouldn’t need to look very far.

The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have transformed virtually all aspects of work and life everywhere in the world.

For more than nine months now, the WHO and its Member States in the South-East Asia Region have responded to the Covid-19 pandemic with speed, scale and solidarity. Speed, in efforts to control local outbreaks by acting on epidemiological evidence.

Three scientists have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics. They are the British mathematical physicist Roger Penrose, German astrophysicist Reinhard Genzel, and American astronomer Andrea Ghez.

In “The India Way”, published by Harper Collins, India’s External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar catalogues India’s journey in the arena of its external relations over a period spanning more than seven decades.

The campaign for presidential election in the USA is turning out to be rather bizarre. It is divisive, fraught with deception, lies and anger, the kinds of which have never been seen before in US elections.

The latest country-wise economic growth projection dished out by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for financial year 2020-21 has made headlines in India as much for its forecast of a double-digit contraction of the three-trillion-dollar Indian economy, Asia’s third largest, as for predicting that Bangladesh would overtake India in terms of US dollar-denominated real per capita GDP.