Myanmar authorities appear to be getting away with their crimes as global attention is focused on the pandemic and, more recently, the Ukraine crisis.

People around the world are grappling with inflationary pressure. Many have lost their jobs or are earning a lower income.

Its failure to contain single-use plastic is unacceptable

For the government, the timing of the Sinha murder verdict on January 31 couldn’t have been worse, with increasing global scrutiny following a US sanction on RAB over allegations of human rights violations, including extrajudicial killings.

Stories of cutting hills or ravaging forests and other natural resources by powerful individuals are so frequently published that they do not

With the third round of Covid surge, educational institutions in Bangladesh are once again subjected to an extended shutdown.

Dr Ainun Nishat, professor emeritus of BRAC University and a water resource and climate change specialist, talks to Naznin Tithi of The Daily Star about the reasons behind the persistent waterlogging problem in the Bhabadaha area and the measures that should be taken to solve it.

Govt must provide financial assistance, reduce their tax burdens

The government’s 2017 move to publish and distribute textbooks in five ethnic languages—and its decision that ethnic minority students would learn

Using symbolic images to represent sexual crimes is very common in news media.

A young female is reported missing. The police find a dead body. The relatives identify the body. The police make an arrest and question the suspect.

Beijing may be 6,500km from Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, but the geopolitical stakes for China in the escalating crisis over Ukraine’s fate could not be higher.

Let’s admit it: the time for debate on school reopening is over. It’s time to stop treating education as an afterthought, as if it’s not a priority.

Why don’t we have a national cancer control strategy yet?

It’s disconcerting that the individuals with connections to power continue to demolish hills or hilly areas around Bangladesh.

It was the spring of 1985 in New Delhi. I, along with my father Vishnupada Bhattacharya, a linguist, literary critic and a teacher at the Department of Modern Indian Languages in Delhi University, came out of Vigyan Bhavan after watching Satyajit Ray’s “Ghare Baire.”

Recently, on a wintry afternoon, I went to see the Padma Bridge.

Of the 48 current vice-chancellors (VC) in the public universities across Bangladesh, 39 are former office-bearers of some pro-government teachers’ bodies.

Lack of resources and accessibility are barriers for students with disabilities

Money laundering has become an all-pervasive problem for Bangladesh, permeating all spheres, strengthening its ever-expanding roots, like a metastatic cancer.