Despite repeated warnings from economists, Bangladesh so far hasn’t taken any major stride toward diversification of its export basket. It still depends heavily on the garment sector.

An unprecedented economic crisis is disrupting life across Sri Lanka. The government is running out of dollars to buy essentials.

The Digital Security Act (DSA) has been proven repeatedly to criminalise the online activity of citizens, using flimsy criteria.

Naim Ahmed, a father of two, has been struggling to get the new digital 17-digit birth registration (BR) certificates for himself, his wife and children. All of them already have the old 16-digit BR certificates, and passports which were issued against them.

In January 1990, more than 400,000 people join hands in a human chain stretching some 400 miles from the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk to Kyiv in an anti-communist protest. The Rada, the new Ukrainian parliament, votes to declare independence from the Soviet Union on July 16, 1990.

Kyivan Rus, the first Slavic state, is considered the birthplace of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. In the 11th century, the vast territory of Kyivan

The Russian president is facing an unexpected level of resistance but remains determined to continue on a belligerent path.

There’s a fine line between combating hate speech and being intolerant of differences in opinions and viewpoints.

Eminent wildlife conservationist Dr Reza Khan said Bangladesh needs to open an independent department with a mandate to manage all the wildlife of the country, including those in safari parks and zoos.

Despite the forest department lacking the skilled manpower needed to run two existing safari parks, plans are underway for yet another safari park project in Lathitila forest in Moulvibazar’s Juri upazila, at the cost of destroying natural forests.

For 67 years, Simanta Pathagar (library) has been bearing Gandaria’s torch. Established under the children’s organisation Khelaghar Ashar, it is also located on Din Nath Sen Road.

This is how the saying goes -- back in the days, a British traveler arrived in the area and was so blown away by all he saw, he exclaimed, “What a grand area!”

There should be a guideline for appointing vice-chancellors to public universities to reduce political manoeuvring in the appointment process, opined University Grants Commission Chairman Prof Kazi Shahidullah.

Although there are no specific rules for the appointment of vice-chancellors (VCs) in public universities, there appears to be an unofficial yet mandatory criterion—a teacher has to be affiliated with a pro-government teacher’s panel to be nominated for the top post.

Dr Selina Hayat Ivy has made a name for herself as an energetic, courageous and people-friendly leader.

The year was 1973. A popular Narayanganj labour leader Ali Ahmed Chunka went to meet Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He wanted to contest in the first-ever Narayanganj municipality polls under the symbol boat.

Built on the banks of the rivers Buriganga, Turag, Balu and Tongi, Dhaka was urbanised centuries ago. For the last five hundred years, the city has gone through numerous iterations,

Years after some 30-40 ancient artefacts were discovered from inside the old central jail compound in Old Dhaka’s Chawkbazar area, information regarding the total number of artefacts at the site or their age is yet to be ascertained due to an internal issue between the Department of Archaeology (DoA) and the excavation team.

“Bullets can’t hit me! I led hundreds of gunfights, but the bullets always just whizzed past me!” exclaimed a self-assured Jahangir Shikari, former robber of the Sundarbans.

Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, is spread across five districts of the country