The blaze at the Chittagong port container area has shocked Bangladeshis like few major disasters before. It’s not just the body count which is many but the way the deaths occurred, bu ...

We were the first batch of students at Dhaka University after liberation and saw the dawn break over Bangladesh. Some of us had even taken up arms in that war of 1971. In those days, being a ...

Bangladesh is planning to introduce legislation, almost certain to be enacted, that experts say would curtail freedom of expression and the press and result in an effective government seizur ...

Elections in independent Bangladesh have not been credible. Maybe once or twice but what followed in the next round of voting after that has been unseemly. Whether it meant changing the rule ...

We, as the International Movements of Working Children, demand that all Conventions, Laws, Policies, Guidelines and Programs aimed at guaranteeing the Rights of working children and adolesce ...

The dramatic arrest of P.K. Haldar in India and not in Canada where he was rumoured to be has raised many questions but few answers. While there is a great deal of hostility mixed with jubil ...

Eminent journalist, writer columnist and poet Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury has passed away. He was 88. Gaffar Chowdhury, who wrote "Amar Bhaier Rôkte Rangano Ekushey February", ...