There is no doubt that corruption is all-pervasive and is in no way interfering with "normal" life in everyday Bangladesh. There is the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) but we have no idea w ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated five power plants as the government planned to bring the country’s 100 percent population under electricity coverage. Sheikh Hasina inau ...

It was very pleasing to see two Yellow Bitterns fly back and forth at Shyampur, a few kilometres from the crowded Hemayetpur junction at Savar. Yellow Bitterns are very stealthy birds and ra ...

The message from the Afghan hills says that the Taliban is a reality whether one likes them or not. The other part is that the US sun is sinking, Russian is stalled and China's is rising ...

A roller was the bird that unexpectedly brightened our dull evening as we wandered in the National Botanic Garden at Mirpur. Being a bird of open areas, the roller was an unusual bird to be ...

Ambassador Teerink has said they have promised 10 million Covid-19 vaccine doses for Bangladesh, mentioning that it is not justified to say the EU is not generous enough in terms of vaccine ...

Ambassador Teerink thinks the Rohingya issue will not disappear from the agenda until a lasting solution is found even though the world is now facing challenges like the Covid-19 pandemic an ...