On August 21, 2004, our government became a terrorist organisation. In what followed, the state itself became accessory to that terrorist act.

As if migrant workers are not already suffering enough due to unemployment and underpayment/non-payment of salaries during the pandemic, those in

The protection of personal data in the modern world is a complicated and contentious issue, especially when there is increasing evidence not just of spyware

The ongoing row between Biman Bangladesh Airlines and its online ticket sales partner is causing untold sufferings for hundreds of intended passengers.

As the situation continues to evolve from day to day, it is becoming increasingly difficult to assess the current climate of Afghanistan. However, despite the

Seldom does a healthcare system, beset by its already fragile state, have to cope with a prolonged pandemic, as ours has done for the last 16 months, while having to cope with another serious illness simultaneously.

We are astonished by the bravery of a mother of a teenage girl who, according to a report published yesterday, willingly got herself trafficked to India by the same trafficking gang that had tricked her 17-year-old daughter into travelling to that country, only to sell her off to a brothel in Bihar.

All events indicate that a Taliban victory in Afghanistan is now a certainty. The former prime minister Ashraf Ghani has reportedly left the country, saying that he

The news that the government is planning to initiate a phased return to in-person classes starting in September is indeed an encouraging one. According to

The warning from Bangladesh Bank (BB)—that unrealised rescheduled loans might create a challenging situation for the profitability and solvency of banks

We agree with the opinion of experts—at a virtual discussion on “Building a Sustainable Ecosystem for E-commerce”, organised by the Dhaka Chamber of

The latest and most significant achievement of the Taliban has been their takeover of Kandahar—Afghanistan’s second-largest city after Kabul—on Friday.

Today is the 46th anniversary of the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Within less than four years of the birth of Bangladesh, the

We appreciate the government’s initiative to buy new digital contents containing interactive and communicative lessons to help secondary students tap the potential of distance learning.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Bangladesh—like most other countries in the world—has been faced with the “lives vs livelihoods” dilemma, as pandemic-induced lockdowns hit the economy hard even while working towards bringing widespread Covid-19 transmission slightly under control.

Coming hard on the heels of a new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report that made dire predictions about the occurrence of more frequent rainfalls,

We express our strong support for the demand put forward by experts at a recent webinar, who urged the government to address migrant workers’ wage theft claims at regional forums during bilateral meetings with host countries, and via international and UN agencies working on migration.

On an issue that concerns every citizen of our country and their constitutional rights, 10 supreme court lawyers have filed a writ petition with the High Court,

It is astonishing that the Department of Immigration and Passports (DIP) has not issued any new passports in the last four weeks. The server had run out of

One of the probe bodies formed after the devastating Hashem Food and Beverage factory fire in Narayanganj last month has finally finished their job and submitted their findings,