High inflation and low export and remittance earnings are a major cause for concern at the moment.

The state of mental healthcare in Bangladesh is quite neglected. Still, the country’s youth is steadily trying to break the stigmas related to mental health issues.

Unless Truss reverses more of the tax cuts or introduces policies to protect pensioners and mortgage borrowers, turmoil in the UK market will not end soon.

Populist losers are more likely than not to cry fraud, because the entire basis of their appeal lies in the claim that they, and only they, represent “the real people.”

Kishan Rana’s book: “Churchill and India: Manipulation or Betrayal” (Routledge, 2022) is an important contribution to an emerging global history different from just Euro-centric narratives. Superbly researched, Kishan connected the dots to find that Churchill’s record on India reflected part of his own limited experience with Indians, formed through his leadership of Indian Muslim troops as part of his early career, and his grand, but often self-serving, view of world affairs from imperial London.

Securing financial assets to combat climate change is not easy, particularly for developing economies such as Bangladesh.

Women's empowerment – a gift of liberation – has already been a significant force behind development.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s (SCO) 22nd annual summit of heads of states took place in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

We can’t just wish things away, we can’t disown parts of our culture and country because they don’t fit our particular ideal. That is a cop-out, an easy way out, that is claiming we are pristine, and the dirt lives elsewhere, claiming we are saints and that is not our sin. 

To remember and to be informed are the most important duties that the colonised bear.

The reality of the communities that are yet to recover from the trauma of Partition.

The academic rank diagram needs to look like a pyramid where few professors are located at the apex.

Bangladesh is yet to achieve nutrition security for its entire population.

When global prices dropped, we did not see the energy prices go down in Bangladesh. Why is that?

The Detailed Area Plan (DAP) for 2022-2035, produced by Rajuk, is a radical and innovative document in the planning history of Dhaka.

There is a saying that a society is measured by how it cares for its elderly population.

Protiti’s poems are mostly ‘bare’ conversational musings exploring ‘selfhood, separation, exile, love and longing’.

The memoir provides a good primer to Nusrat's life as a musician and the legacy he left.

One reason behind the lack of progress on L&D is that it has no agreed definition yet.

September 26, 2022 marks a historic day for Bangladesh, especially for the people who have any form of visual or print disability.