The Chairman and members of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Bangladesh has completed their tenure on July 22, 2016.

In the first two days of the week, two key suspects of machete killings, Faijullah and Sharif, were killed in 'shootouts'. Though the

Take a look at the news-stories that really stirred our civic discourse in 2016: Rampal, central bank heist, teacher's humiliation by lawmaker or Tonu's murder. Think back another year: remember the #RichKids incident where a drunken teen (a former MP's nephew)

Confusion, denial and finally, elation – these were the three stages of emotions that I experienced when my son enthusiastically informed that he wanted to go outside and play football with me.

Countries with a successful PPP programme have built it on a solid framework. The Government of Bangladesh passed the PPP law last year. Before that, in 2011, it formed the Bangladesh Infrastructure Finance Fund Limited (BIFFL), a government-owned non-banking financial institution with a mandate to invest in large infrastructure projects, including power and energy, ports, connectivity, tourism and economic zones.

Uber offers private rides in private cars at your own convenience. It means you don't have to wait for the rain to stop; you don't have to queue up...

When random violence is visited on innocent people, we try to find the right words to respond.

The Democratic and Republican parties have made presumptive nominations of their presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

Media trial is a nasty business, and women are its worst victim. Thus, a woman caught with the cough syrup Phensedyl can be reported as 'Phensi Queen' or a girl in possession of methamphetamine tablets will be called 'Yaba Princess'.

The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), one of the top think-tanks in the country, has stated in its post-budget assessment that we will

The Finance Minister has proposed a mega Tk.3.4 trillion budget for the upcoming fiscal year 2016-17. It is about 29 percent higher than the revised budget of the outgoing fiscal year.

Antibiotic resistance is the new bacterial normal. About a hundred years ago with the discovery of penicillin, the antibiotic revolution commenced the era of modern medicine.

Belying speculations at the anti Trinamool camp for a 'vote for change' like the West Bengalees accounted for in 2011, Mamata has swept to a second term with a powerful mandate.

Predictably the issue of 'illegal migration' had featured most predominantly in the latest state elections in Assam.

With a flower crown on his head, Mustafizur Rahman was flashing his trademark boyish smile to every flash of camera from a

Sabira has been adequately framed as a 'model' and something of a 'wildcard' - who didn't care much about social norms. Her final video, featuring her in a slightly incoherent, vulnerable state, has been branded by online media sites and uploaded endlessly for public display. Not a single voice suggested that her privacy be respected.

It is easy to miss stories about child domestic workers being tortured and killed. Easy because stories of children being killed have become eerily regular.

If you have ever had the opportunity to fly on the Airbus A380, the biggest jetliner in the world, nicknamed the Superjumbo, then you would love to know that the enormous engines, each producing around 70,000lbs of thrust, of these double-decker planes may contain a critical set of technologies invented by a Bangladesh-born scientist, RifatUllah.

As the UN prepares to celebrate the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers on May 29 this year, Bangladesh will be

Recently introduced 10 mobile libraries are enlightening the rural people of all 10 unions of Mohadevpur upazila of Naogaon for more