The rape culture in Bangladesh is nurtured by many disappointing legal loopholes.

The year 2030 is the target year for the world to achieve all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations.

The e-commerce sector of Bangladesh witnessed significant growth since the outbreak of Covid-19 in March 2020.

The culture of time and cost overruns in public projects must stop

According to media reports, a 600-feet-long “safety zone” was recently allocated for women and children visiting Cox’s Bazar.

With the passing of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the world has lost an unstoppable force for good who taught compassion and forgiveness, and pursued his mission with a will of iron.

The extraordinary assurance that no journalist will be arrested immediately under the Digital Security Act (DSA) without a summon seems to be an attractive solution to the concerns and fears created by its random abuse to suppress critical voices in the media.

Although a number of bodies and organisations exist for the sole purpose of curbing road accidents in Bangladesh, the reality is that we are still losing precious lives on our roads on a daily basis.

The thought of retirement crosses the human mind for a variety of reasons. Physical and mental constraints and plans to initiate other exciting ventures are major factors which induce people to consider retirement.

Vaccination is key to protecting people against the new variant

It’s no surprise that one constant feature of the tumultuous year that 2021 has been was the upward trend in road crashes and casualties,

East Bengal has a population of about 45 millions and an area of about 15,000 square miles. Less than three per cent of its people have any education in the real sense of the term. The only way in which you can get to know this province, is to study its folk-songs and tales, which mirror its aspirations, achievements and frustrations.

Badruddin Umar may not necessarily be a very popular person. That statement is a little ironic for two reasons. First, he is the pre-eminent “popular” (people’s) scholar and second, given his tastes and preferences, he would probably wear that judgement as a badge of honour.

One of the lessons that we learnt during Covid-19 is that suppliers and buyers need to collaborate more, moving away from adversarial relations. But how can we make the shift towards collaboration? And what are the barriers to such an approach to business?

The Covid-19 situation is now shrouded in uncertainty. Just when we were about to relax over the receding pandemic cases, it is once again time to worry.

In the long run, the sector will become more vulnerable

We are left baffled and wondering how strong a sense of impunity a police officer must have had in order to be able to take control of a heavy

Fifty years ago, the dominant concern of citizens and observers alike was about the economic future of newly independent Bangladesh.

We live in worrying times. The climate crisis, stark inequalities, bloody conflicts and human rights abuses, and the personal and economic devastation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic have put our world under greater stress than it has faced in my lifetime.

When the United Nations General Assembly laid out its 2030 agenda in 2015, no one could have imagined that Bangladesh would surpass some of the milestone targets for health ahead of time.