My connection with Latifur Rahman (Shamim) goes back to pre-partition times when both our families lived in Calcutta (Kolkata), though we never actually met then.

In early 2017, when I was mulling over launching BD FactCheck – the first fact-checking initiative in Bangladesh – we looked for who else in the region was already working in this field.

One dollar now costs almost Tk 100. The taka has been losing its value against the US dollar for months, with no signs of it changing.

Such projects are enabling corruption and incompetence

Government must try harder to reduce present and future suffering in the region

The COVID-19 pandemic hit us at a time when anthropogenic climate change is threatening to destabilise our lives.

Is not the media already under duress, and its function heavily encumbered by the Digital Security Act (DSA), without needing a new law which is now on the anvil of the Bangladesh Press Council (BPC)?

Even before the pandemic, CFOs of small businesses struggled to get the insights they needed to manage their finances effectively.

Long-delayed Bapex letter exposes poor state of governance

Recent attacks on teachers deeply alarming

This past week, the entire country has been rightly celebrating the successful completion and inauguration of the historic Padma Bridge.

Two verdicts in two different countries, located thousands of miles apart, by their respective supreme courts last week have stoked a serious debate about the role of judges and politicisation of the judiciary.

Bangladesh’s struggle with smuggling is not a new phenomenon.

Despite strong laws, why is torture still their go-to practice?

We have already thrown all its rules out the window

Nero was famously accused of fiddling while Rome burned. Today, some leaders are doing worse.

Our senior citizens with a taste for Hollywood and British classic films will perhaps remember where I have taken the title from.

Even after a lifetime of struggling to turn their lives around, a large number of vulnerable Bangladeshis face continuous climate-induced disasters, and each one brings them back to square one.

Bangladesh has always been known as a land prone to natural disasters. Over the years, countless floods and cyclones have devastated the lives and livelihoods of its people, especially those living in marginal settings such as the coastal areas or the low-lying districts in the north and the northeast.

Government must find a way to reduce prices and suffering