Bangladesh’s public health story is often told through the lens of hospitals, epidemics, and human suffering.

The Tangail saree has travelled far. Once woven quietly in riverside villages, it now appears in fashion catalogues, festival exhibitions, and heritage headlines.

The Ashtomashi Badh, or eight-month embankment, historically shaped the southwest coast of Bangladesh into an ek fosholer desh—a single-crop landscape—where peasants cultivated rice once a year using fresh water.

At the beginning of December, a lioness named Daisy slipped out of her cage at Mirpur National Zoo for a few hours, sparking panic and a rushed evacuation.

But beneath the surface of religious fervour lay a more calculated motive.

For char residents, this unequal exchange is not new.

Farmers speak from lived experience, and their stories reveal the uneven spread of crisis across the region.

This human-made tragedy, however, was partially remedied by "humans" themselves.

Born in 1954 in Paikpara Union under Chunarughat Upazila of Habiganj district, Binoy was the son of a local farmer, Sudhir Chandra Sutradhar, and Snehalata Sutradhar. Before he was even seven, he lost his father, a loss that cast the family into deep hardship.

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Around 15 years ago, a new phenomenon emerged: the arrival in France of very young people

The hungry river is coming towards us. Where will we go now?

Patachitra is considered one of the oldest Bengali forms of audio-visual storytelling.

The question is no longer about data scarcity, but about data governance: who holds it, who uses it, and to what end.

One of the less visible but most damaging barriers is the absence of legal identity.

The soaring costs are turning secondary education into a secondary priority, overshadowed by the daily struggle for survival.

Our stomachs often remain empty—not because we do not work hard, but because life is unfair

The informal economy is not a leftover of "under-development" but continues to operate across advanced societies.

One often overlooked dimension of this transition is the interplay between automation, decent work, and the care economy.

Teachers' demands today are so modest that they almost reflect their learned helplessness.