Over the past decade and a half, Bangladesh has invested substantial public resources in digital health systems.

Dhaka should seek detailed clarification from the founding members on the pact’s military obligations, command arrangements, rules of engagement, financing, intelligence sharing, and the circumstances in which a member would be expected to provide military assistance.

Bangladesh-Malaysia labour migration has followed a familiar pattern over the past five decades: the market opens, allegations of excessive costs and irregularities arise, migrants suffer, recruitment is suspended and attempts are made at reform.

Making water from air is scientifically remarkable. Making enough of it, at a cost people can afford, is a very different challenge.

The rapid rise in the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems has streamlined information processing, drafting, and research, making these processes more efficient and less time-consuming.

The devastating flash flood that ripped through Nepal’s Rasuwa district and China’s Tibet has so far claimed more than 600 lives, with around 3,000 still missing on both sides of the border.

After the fall of the Awami League regime in August 2024, the conversations surrounding enforced disappearances have changed significantly.

In Bangladesh, August 30 has become a test of whether the state has learned anything from the evidence on enforced disappearance now before it.

Every morning before work, Rima, a garment worker living on the outskirts of Dhaka, faces a painful dilemma: there is no safe place to leave her two-year-old daughter.

Bangladesh launched its pink, women-only bus service, operated by female drivers, on August 18. This is a step forward in addressing women’s safety and mobility.

For the past several weeks, the effects of the country’s gas crisis have been felt everywhere: factories struggling with inadequate pressure in supply lines, filling stations facing long queues, households receiving little or no pipeline gas, and power plants unable to generate at their full capacity.

August 25 was observed as the “Ninth Anniversary of Rohingya Genocide Day” in the camps of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh.

A few decades ago, becoming a parent in Bangladesh rarely felt like starting from zero. A new mother had her own mother to ask for help.

How do you pay the price of safety as a woman living in Bangladesh? For many, the answer is with dignity.

The government wants to spend Tk 683 crore training more than 50,000 young people to become freelancers.

The technical faults in one of the two floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs) in Bangladesh, detected on July 21 this year, have had a cascading effect on various sectors.

On August 23, Invest Bangladesh, formed by merging the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA), the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) and the Public-Private Partnership Authority (PPPA), formally started its journey.

A particular silence falls over a char village school after a flood. The benches are empty, the blackboard warped, the floor covered with a thin film of riverbed silt.

Bangladesh has never lacked alternatives to coal-fired power.

A hospital may own an X-ray machine, but that does not mean patients can get an X-ray.