Porimol Palma

The number of caesarean births has almost doubled in the last eight years largely due to lack of accountability of profit-hungry private healthcare providers and absence of proper rules and regulations. The figure rose to 690,000 or 23 percent of total deliveries last year from 355,000 or 9 percent of total deliveries in 2007, according to Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2014.

Several hundred Bangladeshis and Rohingyas are still held hostage in Thai jungles despite reported crackdowns on human trafficking after discovery of mass graves and skeletons along the borders of Thailand and Malaysia. Ransom calls from Thailand to the families of at least seven Bangladeshis who left home mostly in March-April bears out reports that the dark trade is still on.

It was a fine morning on June 25th, 2013. RagibHasan reached his office atthe University of Alabama in Birmingham, USA and started

The falling share of funds for health in the proposed budget has drawn sharp criticism from experts.

The international community must mount pressure on Myanmar so that it recognises Rohingyas as citizens, say immigration experts

It's shocking to learn that an estimated 6,000 people from Bangladesh and Myanmar are fighting for survival in the Andaman Sea and

As legal channels for labour migration from Bangladesh have shrunk due to malpractices in the arrangements by both private agencies and the government, desperate jobseekers take dangerous sea route to Malaysia.

Sona Mia has no more tears left to shed. He is now afraid of something ominous coming his son's way.

While the country is witnessing significant improvement every year in most health indicators, the death rate of newborns remains

It was not easy to form a government in exile. Apart from external challenges, there were internal oppositions that had to be overcome.

Last winter, Naresh Chandra Biswas grew potato, cauliflower and cabbage on two acres of land. He invested Tk 1.2 lakh, hoping to make a good profit from the yield. But fate had something else in store for him. All he got from sale of his produce was Tk 47,000, about one-third his investment.

Rising trend of overweight and obesity among urban people, especially women, is emerging as a serious health concern in Bangladesh,

In the face of rising fatalities caused by spread of swine flu in the neighbouring India, the Bangladesh government has decided to

Bangladesh is preparing to tackle swine flu as the outbreak of the deadly H1N1 virus in neighbouring India has claimed more than

More than two decades on, the government has been able to take the programme to the doorstep of some 20 percent farmers

Records suggest the practice of making poultry-fish feed out of Hazaribagh tannery waste has been going on for over a decade.

A new study finds that almost one-third of the pesticides used in farming vegetables and fruits in the country are substandard.

Imported by the Department of Fisheries two years ago without any scientific assessment, the machine is mostly used for measuring formalin in the environment, said Barc.