On the occasion of Victory Day, Mofidul Hoque, war crimes researcher and trustee of the Liberation War Museum, speaks to Shuprova Tasneem of The Daily Star about the incredible journey that Bangladesh has gone through, and what must be done to preserve that history.

The commemoration of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary, and the celebrations centred around Bangladesh’s 50 years as an independent nation state, will conclude at the end of the calendar year 2021.

This Victory Day is made all the more special by the knowledge that the country is on its way to graduating from the LDC (least developed country) status.

Three major economic challenges, all tied to one another, have got experts worried when it comes to Bangladesh’s economic recovery from

As children and others continue to die on our roads, we ought to reconsider just how highly we value our current traffic system.

Power with wisdom is a blessing for mankind; power with arrogance and vices is a threat.

The current secretary-general of the United Nations, Antonio Guiterres, has already established himself as a champion for actions to tackle climate change to all countries and actors, and has recently been quite outspoken in his criticism of the poor outcomes of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), held in Glasgow last month.

The UN General Assembly (UNGA), during its 76th session, adopted a resolution on Bangladesh’s graduation from the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) category, scheduled to be effective in 2026.

It seems that the coronavirus is here to stay, although in a mutated form, and we have to learn to live with it without allowing it to do us much harm.

A recent report by the news agency Reuters has confirmed that it is not only the Bangladeshi population which has suffered due to the

I would wish these pages were not only an anthology of eyewitness accounts. People of my generation have experienced enough horror to be, alas! no longer shocked. And human nature is such that it is rare that horror does not breed horror.

On the eve of our victory day, on December 15, 1971, at around 4:30 pm, my father Dr Abdul Alim Choudhury was sitting on the balcony of our house with my mother, watching the Indian MiG fighters bomb the few Pakistani strongholds still remaining in Dhaka.

The martyred intellectuals of 1971 had their differences from one another, but they had one thing in common, and that was why they were killed—their patriotism.

The recent clamping of sanction by the government of the United States on some senior members of the Bangladesh law enforcement agency Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), on the issue of extrajudicial killings, has sparked predictable reactions among the official circle.

Passengers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka have been going through immense sufferings after the airport

Muhammad Bin Qasim entered Sindh in 711AD, thus becoming the first Muslim invader in India.

Doing business has become an increasingly costly endeavour in the global ready-made garment (RMG) industry.

Democracy today is going through a bad time all around the world. The ghost of the Arab Spring still haunts us.

Throughout 2021, we have been celebrating 50 years of Bangladesh’s independence, with a lot of glory and pride.

The Omicron variant is 4.2 times more transmissible in its early stage than Delta.