Jannatul Naym Pieal

Nepal’s floods expose how fragile transboundary water management remains when early warnings, data sharing and river cooperation depend on diplomacy.

Women-only buses may offer safer journeys, but they must not become an excuse to make the rest of Bangladesh’s transport system less welcoming to women

In July 2024, a young woman in Dhaka stood in front of a police prison van, trying to stop officers from taking away a fellow male student.

Every decade, Bangladesh finds a way to bend the arc of world cricket -- not through continuous dominance, but through a seismic upset

Imtiaz Ali’s film turned memory, Partition and tenderness into an unlikely theatrical success

Most of the obituaries praise Purja's feats in climbing while skipping past a chapter that, only two years ago, made international headlines: allegations that he had sexually assaulted two women.

Today, some books are taking a very different route. They are bought in bulk, scanned into machine-readable text and, in some cases, destroyed, leaving behind digital files that can be used to train artificial intelligence systems.

Few works of literature have survived as many reinventions as “The Odyssey”. For nearly three millennia, Homer's epic has travelled almost as widely as its hero, acquiring new meanings with each age.

When more than 10,000 young Indians marched from Jantar Mantar to the parliament in New Delhi on Monday—responding to a call by the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) movement—police launched a crackdown on them with tear gas and batons, allegedly injuring about 150 protesters and detaining many others.

What Satluj has achieved is not a guaranteed result in 2027 but something arguably more consequential for now.

Over the past few months, a phrase once quite common has again entered Bangladesh’s official communication: “following the prime minister’s order.”

The latest Harlan Coben adaptation proves that suspense and emotional stakes can be more compelling than shock value

On the night when Argentina played Egypt last week, 38-year-old auto-rickshaw driver Shariful Islam was watching the match at a roadside tea stall in Cumilla as Lionel Messi missed a penalty.

As AI-assisted writing becomes harder to avoid, the real test of literature may lie not in how it is produced, but in the humanity of its ideas

China's proposed economic corridor promises strategic opportunities for Bangladesh, but Myanmar's prolonged conflict makes its realisation a distant prospect.

Anti-Bangladesh rhetoric continues to emanate from influential quarters in West Bengal and across India’s political discourse, which has real consequences. It shapes how ordinary Indians perceive Bangladeshis and creates a climate in which hostility—at immigration counters and in public spaces—may become culturally normalised, making the stay of Bangladeshis anywhere in India fraught with anxiety and insecurity.

A line on a map cannot contain a war economy, armed actors, or a collapsing frontier next door.

Artificial intelligence has genuinely made our creative and professional lives easier — whether you are a writer staring down a deadline, a researcher drowning in documents, or simply someone trying to get through a long to-do list.

When diplomatic talks fail, the language of their conclusion is usually the last to admit it.

Mamata’s rump would be Trinamool Lite — still around, still vocal, but no longer the machinery through which Bengal’s political economy ran.