A political outsider only a decade ago, Farage transformed British politics through his relentless focus on immigration

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.

Recently, The Daily Star published an article titled “Why Bangladesh’s children are in school but not learning”, written by John Richards and Shahidul Islam, who cited data showing a sharp decline in enrolment in government schools and evidence from national and international assessments that many children complete primary education without acquiring foundational literacy and numeracy skills.

There is a peculiar danger in public-health success: the better a system works, the easier it becomes to take it for granted. Bangladesh’s measles outbreak is demonstrating that paradox brutally.

A record-breaking Tk 51,746 crore budget allocation for climate-relevant interventions, marking a 26 percent surge from the previous fiscal year, seems like an unmitigated triumph for a nation on the frontlines of environmental precarity, until one looks closely at where the money actually goes.

Australia’s decision to ban social media for children under 16 has struck a chord with anxious parents around the world. The concerns of parents are real.

We live it every day, and Dhaka’s unliveability is simply undeniable.

A law that exempts the region where that weapon is doing the most damage is not protecting the environment. It is choosing, deliberately, where the law’s protection will end.

The most dangerous misuse of a justice system begins with the filing of a complaint that should never have entered the system in the first place—a problem that now confronts the International Crimes Tribunal.

This year’s monsoon season has already turned deadly.

Bangladesh is now home to more than 17.5 crore people. Roughly one in four is 15-29 years of age, a cohort of around 4.7 crore, larger than the population of many countries.

The performative presence of two superpowers in the precincts of Bangladesh’s national parliament has added some twists in the country’s political plot.

A political science student in Bangladesh will spend the first year studying European history.

Once again, Bangladesh finds itself amid South Asia’s geopolitical discourse.

What is the point of negotiating repatriation with Myanmar’s central government when Rakhine State, the territory those refugees would return to, is no longer under that government’s control?

America’s most powerful attraction—freedom of thought—is under stress today.

Football demands little. But it offers considerably more.

A national budget is meant to serve citizens. The question is: how much of the nation’s resources really reaches citizens in the end, and how much is used in simply maintaining the machinery of government?

The government’s recent announcement that it intends to pursue opportunities in carbon markets signals a new phase in Bangladesh’s engagement with global climate finance.

This is neither simply a technical problem nor merely a policy failure. It reflects a lacking in our collective understanding of equality.