A few things are necessary when one travels: a reasonable, peaceful hotel, good shopping and food, fast transport, a quick guide to the list of must-see and must-do and of course, news from home.

A more relevant concern about social businesses is to do with the informational problem that may arise from their not being able to take full advantage of market signals in making decisions about prices and products.

Ahmed Sofa, as his mentor Abdur Razzaq once put it, “is an established literary figure of Bangladesh.”

The 7.5 percent VAT on the tuition fees of private universities was based on the hypothesis that rich and well-off parents send their wards to private universities.

Major General Aziz Ahmed, Chief of Border Guard Bangladesh, talks to Shamsuddoza Sajen of The Daily Star on various aspects of border management and development of the border area.

India's major political parties, the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have rendered parliament a place of tamasha.

The only thing to lament about the agreement reached by Iran and the P5+1 (the UN Security Council's five permanent members – China, Britain, France, Russia, and the United States – plus Germany) in Vienna this month is that it was not signed and sealed a decade ago.

Once I gave money to a costumed intellectual, whose intellect subsequently proved more conspicuous in his costume than anywhere else.

What do we hope to achieve in terms of "women's empowerment" when an overwhelming number of women remain vulnerable to domestic violence?

The BNP's future, like that of its junior partner Jamaat-e-Islami, lies in reform.

The India-Pakistan summit at Ufa is aimed at a long-term engagement as Modi has accepted Sharif's invitation to attend the next SAARC summit in Pakistan, scheduled for next year.

Tajuddin Ahmad, the prime minister of the provisional government-in-exile, would have been 90 this year.

The Government of France is going to host the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris from November 30 to December 11, where it is expected that a new climate change agreement will be signed.

After gaining independence from Britain in 1947, India was something of a poster child for the virtues of democracy – in stark contrast with China, which became a Communist dictatorship in 1949.

Purti Munda, the forefather of Mahasweta Devi's adivasi hero, Chotti Munda, had lamented how, wherever he goes, however remote the place, someone appears right away – “Whites-Bangalis-Biharis” – to snatch away his land, and along with it, his peace of mind.

Digital tools can empower the poorest by bringing them into the feedback dialogue. This gives clients of programmes the scope to steer their own growth and lodge grievances if necessary.

Maybe it's ghreena, this pervasive feeling of hostility, hatred, and disgust built into a mass of rage that is one of the biggest problems with the world today.

The US Congress has 60 days to review the agreement. During that time, President Obama cannot lift the sanctions.

What we have in front of us is an unprecedented opportunity, and historical chance to make the paradigm shift that humanity desperately needs.

Might is right, and that ugly truth once again confronted us after a teenager was tortured and killed in Sylhet by atrocious adults.