Over the last few days here in Glasgow, Scotland, over a hundred world leaders have arrived for the leaders’ summit at the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to give speeches, hold meetings with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and also have some bilateral meetings among themselves.

Town planning is both a science and an art of designing and developing urban areas.

The pledge by world leaders at COP26 to end deforestation by 2030 has been met with scepticism by environmental groups across the world, with Greenpeace describing it as a green light for “another decade of deforestation.

We are deeply concerned by the influx of illegal firearms and ammunition through our borders, as it poses a serious threat to our national

The Covid-19 pandemic has instilled many harsh lessons for the world. But the most important one is that infectious-disease outbreaks pose a risk not just to public health, but also to global security.

It was in the early hours of November 3 when a warning bell went off inside the central jail in the heart of Dhaka city. As dawn approached, a sense of deepening fear engulfed the indoors of the new jail.

More often than not, the word “police” in our parlance gets adverse attention—and for understandable reasons.

On a cold winter day in February 2020, BJP leader and turncoat politician Kapil Mishra tweeted a video, asking his followers to “prevent another Shaheen Bagh,” referring to the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 demonstrations that were being held in Shaheen Bagh of Delhi since December 15, 2019.

Yesterday, as we marked the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, the International Press Institute, in a statement, drew attention to the fact that the global conviction rate for violent crimes against journalists is abysmally low—in at least nine out of 10 cases, the killers go unpunished.

Anyone who has seen the video of Chattogram-based journalist Golam Sarwar—taken shortly after he was found unconscious on the banks of a canal following a disappearance of three days—is unlikely to forget the helplessness and fear coursing through his bruised being, as he kept on uttering the words, “Please, brother, I won’t write anymore.”

The Razakar Bahini was a paramilitary force created by the Pakistan Army with local collaborators during the Liberation War in 1971.

Since the very inception of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) project, the corresponding unit cost of generating electricity—per kilowatt-hour (kWh)—has been a subject of much speculation.

Among the 13 tiger range countries in the world, Nepal is heading towards becoming the first country to meet the goal of doubling its tiger population—termed TX2 (Tigers times two)—by 2022.

At a webinar on Sunday, experts said that Bangladesh needed to have a vibrant bond market to meet the country’s requirement for long-term

With life slowly returning to normal after the pandemic, inhabitants of Dhaka are again suffering due to the city’s awful traffic. It is truly shocking

While it is good to know that maize production in Bangladesh has become profitable for our farmers, particularly in the country’s northern region, it is disconcerting to note that proper storage and processing facilities for maize still remains a major concern.

Over the past few days, 23 women have been rescued from the hands of traffickers, of whom 22 were in three “safe houses” in Dhaka’s

A decade ago, global management consultant McKinsey published a report titled “Bangladesh’s Ready-Made Garments Landscape:

Dr Iftekharuzzaman, executive director of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), speaks to Eresh Omar Jamal of The Daily Star about the discrimination faced by marginalised communities and the rise of fundamentalism in Bangladesh.

Growing up in a small city in the southwest United States, I thought I didn’t like cities. I loved hiking in the nearby mountains, from the top of which a grey haze hung over the city, which itself offered a few charms.