This World Refugee Day, there is an urgent need to invest in collective efforts to allow the Rohingya to become self-reliant.

Near absence of an affordable and accessible healthcare arrangement in the Gulf states has led many workers to rely on self-medication, often consuming expired medicines brought from home by themselves and their peers.

The ruling party would be well-advised to change its ways and try to make the people its main source of strength through good governance, by returning power to the people and making amends for its past mistakes.

For a nation that cannot boast of a Cervantes or Rabindranath, there will always be a need to find an All-American, a unifier who assures them of their place in the hallowed halls of literature. Cormac McCarthy, more than any other writer of his generation, was equipped to shoulder that title.

Djokovic’s astonishing number of slams in each court is what makes him, at the moment, the best player across all surfaces.

Shrugging off its moral obligation with unpalatable comments will not add to the cause of gaining public trust.

Lack of investment for sustainable development in the world’s poorest, most vulnerable countries is one of the most pressing global issues.

Another day, another attack on the press in Bangladesh

As a hegemonic superpower, America’s primary concern has been its leadership position in the world; especially, economic leadership in global trade and investment.

Jamaat-e-Islami, one of the largest fundamentalist parties in Bangladesh, was recently allowed to hold a public meeting in Dhaka after almost a decade.

Did we really “rise to the climate challenge?”

Prolonging the stay of an employee in service impedes fresh graduates from joining the workforce.

Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) and Begum Sufia Kamal (1911-1999), two icons in Bangla literature and culture, were not kins but kindred spirits.

Quality education is a requirement for “Smart Bangladesh,” and it will be an irremediable loss if the country fails to educate its young generation in order to reap the benefits of a demographic dividend that will slip away in the 2030s.

Who did it, and why is it relevant in the ongoing LNG war?

A Dhallywood dialogue recently created a social media storm by cropping up in a more unusual place: a question paper for Bangladesh Studies in the University of Barishal, where students were asked to examine it in the “light of British hegemony in the Indian subcontinent.”

Bendis intentionally put a stark difference between Peter and Miles, so that comic book fans would not feel that their favourite web-swinger was being replaced by just another goody-two-shoes, just with a racial make-up switch.

The triple train accident in Balasore in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on June 2 was considered the worst in three decades involving India’s largest public transport system that ferries nearly eight billion people annually.

When economic conditions are normal, the importance of the protective role of democracy is often not felt.

Do we need the 24/7 hustle and bustle of Dhaka – the cacophonous dramas of this sleepless city – reproduced in its parks too?