The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is showing promising signs of changing with the times.

Dhaka, the nucleus of Bangladesh’s economic success, is the most densely populated city in the country (and perhaps in the world), accommodating more than 47,000 people per square kilometre (as of 2018).

BTRC must withdraw its draft online content regulations

Despite having a good track record of utilising bank loans and paying interests on time, women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh still have to circumvent various

The Russian Orthodox Church blesses rather than fire weapons. In doing so, it has emerged as a powerful weapon in its own right in President Vladimir Putin’s civilisationalist arsenal.

The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) was launched over 10 years ago, by then President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, and has been operating since then with a different head of government in charge of it for a two-year tenure.

Rezaul Mia from Tangail spent about Tk 4.5 lakh, which he acquired through a loan, to get a labourer’s job in Saudi Arabia last year.

Strict monitoring, legal measures can keep prices in check

Gender equality is still an elusive term not just in Bangladesh, but all across the world, despite so much economic progress and so many measures taken by policymakers.

On March 8 every year, the International Women’s Day is celebrated, without fail, by governments, organisations, and individuals around the world.

On this year’s International Women’s Day, which is being celebrated across Bangladesh and with much grandiosity in Dhaka, I want us all to think of Yasmin Ara, a young woman from Satkhira, who has been thrown out of her home by her mother-in-law a few months after losing her husband.

The Earth is living. She is Gaia, Pachamama, Vasundhara, Terra Madre. For indigenous cultures, she is Mother Earth. Even scientists like James Lovelock call her Gaia, because they have understood that she is living.

It betrays an inherent weakness in the system

It is common for modern day leaders to use teleprompters, in which words are projected onto transparent beam-splitter mirrors, making their speeches appear impromptu and spontaneous.

It is pretty amazing that Bangladesh is on its way to becoming a major source of recycled yarn and fabrics made from plastic bottles.

News of deaths in road accidents, reported in newspapers every day, is shocking. In 2018, Bangladesh witnessed a street movement where

When it comes to long distance travelling, nothing can replace the railway. Beginning around 1880, the Bengal railway expanded soon to bring Assam and East Bengal under its folds.

We recently saw the announcement of new supply chain “due diligence” laws by the European Union (EU), which are aimed at making multinational businesses accountable for social and environmental transgressions in supply chains.

The timing of this couldn’t be worse, as consumers are being drowned under unusually high prices for almost all essential commodities.

It is deeply troubling that official inflation figures in Bangladesh do not reflect the actual situation in the country, as a recent study has found