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.

Bangladesh has spent five decades protecting the reputation of one raw commodity: our golden fibre, jute.

Congratulations to Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir for being elected president of Bangladesh. We believe he will restore to the post much of the dignity that was eroded by the former one.

Changes in Gulf security can quickly reach Bangladeshi households through remittances, employment, energy prices, shipping costs, and inflation.

A significant yet mostly avoided question in Bangladeshi politics is who is paying for it and what they are gaining from doing so.

The tragedy met by nine workers inside an LNG carrier at the Ferdous Steel Ship Recycling Industries in Chattogram’s Sitakunda on August 14 has, once again, raised concerns about the effectiveness of the safety, compliance, and certification system in our ship recycling sector.

The population story of Bangladesh has long been regarded as a major development success. Fertility fell considerably, child survival improved, life expectancy increased, and the country entered a favourable period in which working-age people outnumbered dependants.

Water is more than a natural resource for Bangladesh’s Indigenous communities—it is a source of life, culture, identity, and spirituality.

The police in Bangladesh still seem to have little regard for negotiation as a tactic to deal with crowds.

After all, a human rights commission with actual authority may create several administrative difficulties.

In the early 1970s, Bangladesh was considered overpopulated due to the country’s limited land area and resources; and the government declared rapid population growth as a national problem in the country in 1976.

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

Lord Acton's warning, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” has been quoted so often that it has lost its edge.

Employees in Bangladesh’s formal sector retire from a defined post and wait, sometimes in vain, for a pension. Informal employees, who make up more than 80 percent of all workers, usually don’t retire at all.

Bangladesh did it in Darwin on Sunday, in the capital of Australia’s Northern Territory, far from the country’s traditional cricketing centres.

In Bangladesh’s public health sector, what was once a seasonal concern confined largely to Dhaka has mutated into a year-round, nationwide crisis.