Anowarul Haq, Director, Extreme Rural Poverty Program, CARE Bangladesh

On October 10, 2016, The Daily Star organised a roundtable titled “Bangladesh-China Relations: Connecting Two Economies” in the run-up to the Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit. Diplomats, researchers and business leaders attended the roundtable. Here we publish a summary of the discussions.

According to BDHS 2014 findings on maternal health, 31 percent of adolescents in the country between the ages of

And he gave it for his opinion, that whosoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a

Recently The Daily Star organized a roundtable on "Balanced Fertilizer Usage” in cooperation with NAAFCO Pvt. Ltd.

After the recent terrorist attacks, private universities have come into focus in a negative way, which is unfortunate. The

An interactive and lively discussion looked into the issue of improving the lives of millions of teenage girls in

On the 24th of March, The Daily Star and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) jointly organized a roundtable

* We see a lot of activities regarding gender equality, but is there proper follow-up on these activities? Only 2.4% of

Safe motherhood is about a woman's right to choose as well as her right to survive. Registered midwives are required to ensure these two rights. Our honorable PM gave a commitment at UN in 2010 that 3000 midwives will be developed by the end of MDG.

Faecal Sludge Management: Second Generation Sanitation Challenge

In the context of massive loses in traditional paddy cultivation in consecutive years, farmers in northern districts adopting with new crops pattern as inclining more and more to vegetable farming which is proved to be profitable.

Agriculture plays an important role in the overall economic development of Bangladesh where the vegetable sector alone contributes a good percentage of the country's GDP.

Md. Abu Sayem, Regional Farm Broadcasting Officer, Agriculture Information Service presented the keynote paper in which he mentioned that according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, Bangladesh is the third largest vegetable producer in the world. In

Abdul Quayum, Associate Editor, Prothom Alo & Moderator of the Session

It will be suicidal to ignore the threat of earthquake. It requires long term preparation to avoid such disasters. We

Oxfam in Bangladesh has been working with the number of ICT interventions as a media or tool to empower the community; specifically to raise and to hear the voice of vulnerable and marginalized women. The Participatory Research and Ownership with Technology, Information and Change (PROTIC) as of REE-CALL has been initiated to begin specifically addressing women's economic

The RMG sector is a vital growth engine for Bangladesh. They are poised to flourish in a vigorous manner. However,

Payment system is basically transaction of money between payer and payee. Bank is the core of a payment system,

Dr Enamur Rahman, MP, Chair of Roundtable Discussion