Attacks on aid workers have increased sharply in recent years. In 2025 alone, the AWSD recorded 350 aid workers killed and 322 wounded.

The recent suspension and disciplinary actions against some academics at Dhaka University should concern us for reasons that go beyond the individual cases.

In 2025, according to data from Police Headquarters, at least 21,939 cases were filed across the country over allegations of violence against women and children.

A law meant to rebuild Bangladesh’s National Human Rights Commission should widen access to accountability, not make it depend on how quickly a victim reaches the commission. Human rights, accountability, access to justice, Bangladesh

Nine years ago, Bangladesh opened its doors to the largest influx of Rohingya refugees amid one of the gravest episodes of ethnic persecution in recent history.

The global economy is facing an energy crisis due to supply disruptions amid the war in West Asia. Since energy, vital to economic security, has also become a key part of geopolitics, countries have become more vulnerable to energy shocks.

Personalised medicine is a new frontier in healthcare management, and AI impacts this field tremendously.

Last year, at the invitation of Shomaj o Poribesh Rokkha Shongothan, I met 26 entrepreneurs in Meherpur, 21 of whom were women.

In Bangladesh, whenever militancy is discussed, attention usually turns to the details of specific incidents: where an attack occurred, who was arrested, which organisation was involved, or how many young people were drawn into extremist networks.

This August 25 marks the ninth anniversary of the 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar that subsequently forced more than 700,000 Rohingya to flee into Bangladesh.

Women’s equitable interests in matrimonial property can be secured.

The transformation of how raw news reaches the public has opened Netanyahu’s “eighth front.”

Shipbreaking industry accident records suggest the industry treats its labour as expendable.

Bangladesh is investing heavily in ports, with private operators increasingly entering the sector.

On August 10, a tree fell in the capital’s Dhanmondi area, damaging three parked cars. Fortunately, no one was hurt. But this is not the first time a tree has fallen in the area.

The overall number of refugees has increased, while funding, which used to be relatively healthy before, has declined.

Death could not seal the controversies for Jason Arday.

In its demographic transition, Bangladesh has reached a stage where its working-age population exceeds its dependent population in size—a phenomenon known as the demographic dividend.

Every time Bangladesh’s carbon opportunity comes up for discussion, the conversation usually centres on the same proposal of creating a new authority.

Bangladesh rightly honours its intellectual giants. National professors such as Abdur Razzaq and Dewan Mohammad Azraf are remembered for shaping generations of minds.