Thanks to the World Health Organisation (WHO), we now have a clearer picture of what indoor and outdoor pollution is doing to our children's health.

Asia is suffering from a USD 26 trillion infrastructure gap that threatens future growth. That is the subject matter of a recent report titled "Meeting Asia's Infrastructure Needs" by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

Those are the ground realities in Pakistan as elsewhere in other Muslim majority states including Bangladesh where the State essentially views religious extremism as a security problem that can be exterminated using overwhelming force.

As highlighted many times before, today, for Bangladesh, it is no longer a question of finding the requisite finance but the capacity to implement projects either undertaken or envisaged.

We are used to seeing the death toll rise in road accidents during the two main Eid holidays when hundreds of thousands of people travel to their village homes.

Bangladesh has, over the years, been hailed as a potential economic powerhouse. The challenges are multifarious.

Is President Trump has gone after the tech industry through another of his executive orders. The Muslim ban that has adversely affected some of the biggest names in the US tech industry and now some CEOs are speaking out.

It is disturbing to find that a new website called the “Professor Watchlist” has appeared in the United States on November 21, 2016,

The steps taken by the president came as a surprise as the Obama administration had refused to disclose “facts” that the CIA claimed it had about Russian links to Wikileaks in the run up to the elections.

Back in April 2015, the World Bank (WB) released a Migration and Development Brief where it was found that Bangladeshi migrants pay the highest recruitment costs worldwide.

Bangladesh Road Transport Authority's (BRTA) hostility towards Uber is hardly surprising. The same battle has been raging in

While the security concerns of foreign missions have largely been addressed as they are concentrated in the diplomatic enclave in Dhaka, the same cannot be said when it comes to foreign owned and operated commercial interests.

On paper, we see a lot of things happening. The Vision 2021 Plan envisages power generation capacity to reach 24,000 megawatts (MW) by 2021, meaning that 9000 MW of new capacity will have to be added.

HYDROFLUOROCARBONS or HFCs are thought to be responsible for contributing to 0.5 Celsius warming of the climate.

President Xi Jinping's visit was a major diplomatic win for the government of Bangladesh. It has put the spotlight on not just growing economic ties between the two countries, but demonstrates that China now considers Bangladesh to be a reliable partner in its quest to reach new markets.

Bangladesh lacks an e-waste (electronic waste) disposal policy. Urbanisation has brought forth rapid population growth of major urban

How is it that the Turkish government only chooses to see one side of the argument? Why does it not look at the atrocities committed in 1971 by a marauding Pakistani military in an attempt to stifle and eventually stamp out a nation's demand for independence?