For a party so image-conscious and so demanding of "clean image" from its candidates, Awami League surely knows how to make a muck of things and draw unflattering attention.

Awareness, child-friendly roads and policies are vital

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has rightly called for a global coalition to speed up the deployment of battery technology,

With the economic crisis in Sri Lanka fuelling deplorable conditions, a widespread protest movement has emerged across the island nation, led mostly by its youth.

On  May 20, 1921, around 3,000 tea labourers were waiting at Chandpur railway station.

With the numerous laws that already exist to regulate—or better still, suppress—the media, and the diligence with which new ones are being prepared, one would think that of all the areas that need fixing, our government expects the journalists to be “fixed” first. But why?

Flood situation deteriorates in Sylhet and Sunamganj

If Marcellus saw the picture of college students brutalising an innocent man, he would surely have said to Hamlet that “something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

PK Halder, the former MD of a bank and a notorious embezzler, siphoned off and laundered about Tk 10,000-11,000 crore out of Bangladesh. That’s equivalent to the combined yearly budget of 51 public universities of the country, which is Tk 10,515.71 crore.

Despite the frequent injuries and deaths caused by open canals and drains in Chattogram city as well as demands for proper measures to avoid further casualties, these roadside canals and drains still remain unmarked or uncovered.

Commemorating Europe Day, European mission heads in Bangladesh jointly penned an opinion piece published by The Daily Star on May 9.

Grief can be both excruciating and cathartic.

Putting it in place is the challenge

No doubt, finding an early and sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis is a "top priority" issue for Bangladesh right now.

It is quite a startling fact that most of the coal-fired power plants in Bangladesh are located in the Chattogram region, which will encounter a catastrophic situation if and when all of these plants are completed and operational.

India is no stranger to political controversies. At least half a dozen rage in its fractious public life at any time. But perhaps the most unseemly dispute recently has been the one over the country’s Covid-19 mortality figures.

Biman is once again making the headlines and, as usual, for all the wrong reasons.

Bangladesh has been feeling this inflationary pressure since June 2020.

Govt needs to react now to the ominous signs in the global market

Over the years, Bangladesh has achieved considerable economic progress despite many odds. The economy, however, has now reached a point where continued progress will require course corrections, as alluded by the title of this write up, which is also the subtitle of a bestselling business book.