She is the first to wake up, and after finishing all her daily chores, with little time for rest or recreation, she is the last to go to bed and yet her husband will say: “my wife does not work.” Who is she? She is the Rural Woman of Bangladesh. In spite of all the gains women have made, rural women lag behind in every indicator of human development.

The beauty of democracy is that it provides space to anyone; irrespective of the social or economic status of a person they can assume power and with it can do an enormous number of good things that can benefit the society as a whole. But it has a dark side as well:

The managerial capacity problem, first coined by Penrose (1959), implies that a firm’s ability to grow effectively is directly related to its ability to add managerial capacity to administer and accommodate its growth.

Importing corporate training modules is fraught with danger. It’s time to recognise the uniqueness and strengths of Bangladeshi corporate culture, and for training providers to tailor sessions accordingly.

As Prime Ministers Sheikh Hasina and Narendra Modi meet in New Delhi on October 5 for their second inter-face in about a week, the issue of National Register of Citizens is, by most accounts, expected to figure in their discussions.

The world today will celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Twelve years back, the United Nations voted to declare the date as the “International Day of Non-Violence.” When people usually speak about this iconic persona, they often highlight him as

the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can only be achieved by 2030 with the political will to change international economic rules and mobilise resources needed for a massive public sector-led investment push to reinvigorate world

Away from the news. Away from the enormity of a planet on the brink. Away from inner restlessness there is yet life. It’s what I learnt in Sylhet.

A recent UN report published on Monday gives a dreadful account of the situation in Myanmar stating that the Rohingya remaining in Myanmar’s Rakhine state face a “serious risk of genocide” and that the repatriation of the Rohingya living in Bangladesh is “impossible.”

Centuries ago, Plato in line with Socrates had said that the real wisdom is in “knowing that you do not know” and such wisdom, according to them, is not gained before the age of 50. In the period of early democracy, during the 5th century, we see the practice that citizens over 50 years of age would speak first, and only after their say, younger citizens would speak. This was quite the established rule, followed out of respect for the elderly and to exploit their wisdom to manage state and societal affairs.

It is universally recognised that a well-developed Broadband Internet infrastructure is essential for every citizen to participate in the new digital economy. P

Recently, we have witnessed a spike in the incidents of rape and also an increased commentary on our perception of it.

On Dece-mber 26, 2004, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake struck the ocean floor off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The earthquake then triggered a tsunami that rumbled out across the Indian Ocean and onto the coastlines of surrounding countries. Almost 200,000 people were killed

“Surveillance is the business model of the internet”—Bruce Schneier, security expert and privacy specialist

In 1854, Dr John Snow (not the Game of Thrones character) used a pre-computer method of spatial analysis by mapping patterns and occurrences of cholera outbreaks in Soho, London. He mapped the patients in the neighbourhood and determined that a vast majority of cholera cases occurred around one particular water well.

A total of 66 companies have received the National Export Trophy award recently, in recognition of their extraordinary performances in the country’s export earnings in 2016-17.

I grew up in the labour movement. I was born and raised in Flint, Michigan, a city so famous for producing automobiles that it was called “Vehicle City.”

India’s publication of NRC in Assam virtually strips 19 lakh people of their citizenship. The fate of these “illegal migrants” is still unclear. But it is quite evident from the rhetoric that there will be attempts to eventually deport these people as illegal Bangladeshi residents from Assam and the rest of India.

We hear about women getting raped almost every day through newspapers, social media, and sometimes from our friends and family members. Sexual assault on women has become so pervasive that it is hard to come across a victim who is not female. By contrast,

With just two days left for the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam to become public on August 31, there is palpable tension among those who are set to remain out of it. The draft NRC, released in July last year, left out about four million people;