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It’s easy to dismiss Dhaka as an unliveable city. The challenge is to replace that tantrum with the determination to make the ...
Picture a crowded harbour where the salty seabreeze carries whispers of far-off lands, where merchants of all creed and caste ...
Even though battery-run rickshaws pose some serious concerns of public safety and environmental hazards, it is now too little too late to completely remove them from the streets. Instead, proper regul ...
Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia returned to Dhaka on Tuesday after undergoing medical treatment in London. She ...
Despite a movement almost seven years ago which saw students mobilize across Bangladesh in a bid to get the government to ...
THE morning of May 7 arrived like a clenched fist over South Asia. In pre-dawn hours, India launched ‘Operation Sindoor’, ...
Karachi, a vital economic center for Pakistan, is under threat. Tensions escalate with India following recent attacks.
India and Pakistan have agreed to a ceasefire — but New Delhi says the 64-year-old Indus Waters Treaty remains "in abeyance." What does that mean for water-sharing in the region and beyond?
Meet Jainendra Jain, who just won the Wolf Prize (considered second only to the Nobel) for a discovery that is now helping Microsoft ... alone at the University of Dhaka, come up with something ...
A battery of monitoring committees had been set up, he said, to keep an eye on things. In many places, however, the muck was ...