Zyma Islam

Years of majoritarian Bangla education means that certain minority communities only speak their mother-tongue, and neither read nor write.

Every time the weather takes a turn for the worse, school-going children in the haor are among the first to be affected.

Scientists find invincible bacteria resistant to all antibiotics in city locations

As the landslides wreaked havoc over Chittagong division in the last two weeks, there was one thing that everyone was at a consensus about – this was a man-made disaster.

First comes the wheezing. It happens decades before the skin lesions appear – the tell-tale signs of arsenic poisoning.

Teachers are struggling with cases of sexual abuse and they do not have an effective social welfare system to turn to for help.

With the court dismissing all the other complaints, the narcotics claim is the main battleground now. However, when the case is analysed, what comes up is that the law enforcers found only 45 yaba tablets. Twenty-eight men were sent to jail for it. Breaking down, it is 1.6 tablets per person only

The people set afloat by the flash floods of the haor areas are not blaming their luck—or some supreme being. The only omnipotent force they are naming is far nearer, in the Sylhet metropolis and goes by the name of the Water Development Board.

What is in the eggs you eat? On April 9, the Supreme Court looked for the answer to this question and did not like what they found.

It is difficult to decide whether the murder case filed against 41 people for the Rana Plaza disaster can be measured as progress or not.

This could have been a landmark case. This could have - once and for all - proved that sexual harassment on the street is something that needs to be dealt with the force of law.

In January this year, a woman in her early twenties named Sonia Akhter was brought to Dhaka Medical College Hospital haemorrhaging from a botched abortion.

Last week, I somehow found myself at a market where the Rapid Action Battalion and Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory Commission (BTRC) were busting shops for selling walkie-talkies.

The last time anyone involved in investigating Tonu's case gave any real updates was last June.

Sohagi Jahan Tonu, a student from Comilla's Victoria College, was raped and her dead body was dumped in the bushes on March 20, 2016. The incident happened inside the cantonment area where she lived with her family. Her father discovered her dead body.

All in a week's work. March has barely started. We already have five men (at least) raping, assaulting and killing the women they thought were below them.