Coordinated efforts needed to save life and minimise damage in Sylhet

A power shift in Myanmar and the subsequent polarisation among major powers triggered a new geopolitical flashpoint in Bangladesh’s strategic backyard, which the latter cannot afford to ignore.

After quenching their lurid lust for power and property, funded by slavery and wholesale loot for centuries, leaving behind a trail of torture, murder and injustice, Western colonialists began to spread the word of the holy books,

The budget for FY2022-23 is filled with rhetoric. But its credibility is poor because of its contradictions between the priorities and the actual allocations for education, agriculture, health, and the vulnerable population.

The just completed Cumilla City Corporation election was a “test case” for the newly formed Awal Commission.

Creating new political leadership will be a distant dream otherwise

Urgent humanitarian aid needed in flood-hit northeast

Just as one generation gives way to the next, global challenges are superseded by a new cohort.

One of my favourite films, Love Actually (2003), begins with the narrative voice of “the British prime minister” (Hugh Grant) saying, “Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport.

The government has declared the national budget at a time when the world is still reeling from the Covid pandemic.

Remove bureaucratic hurdles and harassment in their certification as freedom fighters.

Such victims need legal aid, protection and compensation.

Flawed environment decisions and resulting failures are not new in the policy context of Bangladesh. And yet, they thrive.

It is not just anti-corruption HRDs who fear being targeted in Bangladesh.

The recent eruption of political activity, and hence political news centred on city corporation elections has again livened up the dull, drab political stage of recent times.

There is a new assault on the freedom of the press. This time, sadly, it comes from another section of the mass media itself – the television.

India is in hot water both home and abroad since two leaders of BJP, the ruling party, publicly said derogatory remarks about Prophet Muhammad.

They must be proactive and respond quickly to complaints

Authorities must explore alternative options

A "smoking zone" in the middle of an otherwise smoke-free area does not protect people from second-hand smoke.