Last year marked the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, which remains the seminal global commitment to gender equality by member-states.

I am sitting in a hotel room in Islamabad, reading a recent Bonik Barta report that makes a compelling argument:

In Bangladesh, falling sick often means facing a financial crisis.

Eid-ul-Azha is, without a doubt, a festival of joy. It is also at the centre of a wide range of economic activities, i.e. the demand and supply of sacrificial animals, various rituals associated with the sacrifice itself, a seasonal leather market driven by the animal hides produced, Eid shopping, etc.

Bangladesh seems to be lurching from one public health crisis to another.

Bangladesh cricket has just witnessed a landmark moment, with player reactions and celebratory pictures already flooding social media.

Thousands of people across the country are being displaced every day by climate-induced events such as river erosion, salinity intrusion, floods, and cyclones. In search of livelihoods, these people are moving to large cities.

A society’s moral condition is often revealed through the way it treats the most vulnerable sections of its population, including children.

When 37 nations met in Colombia from April 24-29 to attend the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia, Bangladesh was not present.

Its original name was the Ganges Barrage, which is more appropriate because the river is known as the Ganges up to Daulatdia.

One of the enduring lessons from David Attenborough's century-long life is that it is never too late to save the planet

Every year on May 20, tea workers across Bangladesh observe Cha Shramik Dibosh: Tea Workers Day.

Over three decades since arsenic in groundwater was identified as a national danger, millions of people are still drinking unsafe water.

Takaful or cooperative Islamic insurance can serve as an ethical alternative to conventional insurance.

Vitamin A deficiency usually occurs during measles infection.

In the coastal regions of Bangladesh, access to safe drinking water remains one of the country’s most urgent and complex development challenges.

As we have been told by weather forecasters, there is a strong possibility of a “super” El Niño, possibly the most powerful in recorded history, coming to take hold across the world in the coming months.

On the morning of March 28, 2026, some 13 Bangladeshi fishermen left Shah Porir Dwip in Teknaf before dawn, as generations before them had done, to pull nets from the Naf River.

Recently, Fitch Ratings observed that Bangladesh’s economic risks have increased, prompting a downgrade of the country’s sovereign outlook from “stable” to “negative.”

The World Bank’s Bangladesh Development Update, released last month, rings out a warning bell for us.