Bangladesh is facing a quiet crisis of a rising elderly population without having an infrastructure to care for them. This applies to all sectors. While the family network is at bay, the soc ...

A sense of apprehension about this year’s United Nations General Assembly, held every September in New York City, was apparent in much of the previewing on print and television. Not on ...

There are the thousand and one ways in which we regularly humiliate the animals with whom we share this planet. Every reference to them, every categorization of them, is pejorative, to a poi ...

Mrinmoy Bangla, a group art exhibition of four young artists featuring a rich collection of water colour paintings depicting the beauty and nature of Bangladesh, kicked off at the Mohakhali ...

Before Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman emerged in Bangladesh’s political arena, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was the most beloved leader of the Bengalis. He dreamt of independence and ...

Kuldip Nayar was always the Grand Old Man of Indian, indeed South Asian journalism. In a region where the state and its institutions have often displayed scant regard for the media and by ex ...

The achievement of full human potential and of sustainable development is not possible if one half of humanity (i.e. women and girls) continues to be denied its full human rights and oppor ...