Going around in Dhaka could be overwhelming. The city seems overburdened with the impossible weight of people, buildings, vehicles, rickshaws, noise, carbon emission, and nonstop activities.

The fact that a rape victim’s journey towards justice is a grueling one is not unknown to us.

Every time I pass by the Banani flyover area, I look at the worms that have come out of the deep to rear their heads to announce the underpass underneath, and ask myself why the much-hyped pedestrian tunnel has not been opened to the public yet.

Advocate Sultana Kamal is a human rights activist and the founder president of Manabadhikar Shongskriti Foundation (msf). In this interview with Afia Jahin of The Daily Star, she speaks about what perpetuates violence against women in Bangladesh, and the steps that individuals, institutions and the state can take to combat it.

Ruma (not her real name) is working as a nutritionist and counsellor in an organisation that offers treatment and support to thalassemia patients.

Following the 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan’s Fukushima, nuclear power’s share in global electricity-generation saw a staggering decline from 13 percent to 10 percent.

The South Asian developing countries today face challenges of economic vulnerability due to the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change and the rise of serious geopolitical rivalry posed by emerging military groupings and showdowns.

One thing that our industry people appear to be the best at is explaining, often in great detail, the problems and challenges that we face.

“Do you know that you cannot die without being born first?”

When a fish gets caught in a net, it curses its luck and tries to free itself from the mesh.

What recently happened in the transport sector of Bangladesh after the prices of diesel and kerosene were raised by Tk 15 per litre was truly unprecedented.

Renowned writer and academic Prof Hasan Azizul Huq passed away on November 15, 2021, at the age of 82. A master storyteller, he won many accolades for his work, including the Bangla Academy Award and Ekushey Padak. To pay tribute to his illustrious literary career, The Daily Star reprints his interview, taken by Farhana Susmita and Rifat Munim, first published in 2012.

The space for tolerance is shrinking in most parts of the world. From major conflicts to the more subtle acts of discrimination, minority groups, refugees and marginalised communities are facing persecution and suppression in many forms, shapes and scales.

Last week, I wrote about the implications of COP26 on the RMG sector in Bangladesh. Since then, representatives from the fashion industry have made another major announcement at the climate conference, which could set off serious reverberations in the global fashion supply chains over the next decade.

The planning minister recently used an onomatope—a word that imitates the things signified. He referred to the economic growth of the country with the sound image of “shonoi, shonoi,” which can be literally translated to “by and by.”

We are not really aware of how much we use plastic materials in our day-to-day lives.

Shorolika Parveen from Kurigram dreamt of playing in the national football team someday and had even received a best player award from the Prime Minister of Bangladesh.

Currently, the world is going through a major energy crisis. In the last couple of months, natural gas, coal, crude oil, and electricity prices increased manyfold, jeopardising the post-Covid economic recovery across the continents.

The remnants of the spate of communal attacks that shook the country nearly four weeks ago is still prevalent.

Bangladesh, the second highest recipient of China’s investment in South Asia after Pakistan, imports the highest volume of goods from China, making the country Bangladesh’s largest trading partner.