The theme of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities this year is “Leadership and participation of persons with disabilities toward an inclusive, accessible and sustainable post-Covid-19 world.”

Just as we are making news as a role model of development, we are also attracting global attention as perhaps the only country in the world where school students need to demonstrate on the streets for days on end to demand road safety measures.

For a country that was founded on the basis of equality, it is hugely disappointing that as Bangladesh celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence, the country has experienced rapid increase in inequality, especially in recent times.

At last, the law enforcement agencies have been able to identify and arrest some of the people involved in sending workers abroad on forged

Professor Rafiqul Islam was a writer, linguist, researcher and an educationist. He was the first Nazrul professor and director of Nazrul Research Institute at the Bangla department of Dhaka University (DU).

It has been 24 years since the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord was signed, yet the situation in the region is still overwhelmingly fragile.

According to a study conducted by Nirapad Sarak Chai, a road safety movement led by actor and activist Ilias Kanchan, based on reports published by different media outlets, as many as 4,092 road accidents took place across Bangladesh in 2020, taking 4,969 lives and injuring 5,058 more people.

Twenty five years ago, on June 12, 1996, Kalpana Chakma, organising secretary of the Hill Women’s Federation, was abducted in the dead of the night.

On November 24, Notre Dame College student Nayeem Hasan died after being hit by a vehicle of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) in the city’s Gulistan area.

Going into COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland in November, it was already clear that the most vulnerable developing countries wanted the topic of loss and damage from human-induced climate change to get significant attention in the COP process, as well as outside the COP process.

It was a bright sunny morning in Vientiane, where I was visiting during the first week of December 2017.

We are delighted to hear that the environment ministry has agreed to its watchdog’s recommendation to shut down the Savar Tannery

Selina Bahar Zaman left the mortal world on December 1, 2004 at the age of 64. She, along with her mother Anwara Bahar Chowdhury, played an active role in the cultural manifestations of Bulbul Academy of Fine Arts (BAFA) in the 1960’s.

If I had to pick only one trait of my own that I admire, it would have to be my ability to adapt.

As the number of road accidents rises in the country, we want to ask the authorities: What is the point of formulating a law if it remains largely unenforced?

Our PM recently told parliament that Bangladesh has the capacity of producing Covid-19 vaccines and supplying them to other countries. I am

As Omicron, a new variant of the coronavirus, is spreading fast across the world and countries are imposing travel bans and stepping up

A couple of weeks ago, I spent the night in a district town’s Parjatan hotel.

Going around in Dhaka could be overwhelming. The city seems overburdened with the impossible weight of people, buildings, vehicles, rickshaws, noise, carbon emission, and nonstop activities.

The first conference of top national security officials of eight Asian countries on crisis-hit Afghanistan, hosted by India on November 10, sent out an important message relating to the need for preventing the war-torn country from becoming a safe haven for global terrorism once again, for an inclusive government, and an unhindered supply of humanitarian aid to the Afghan people.