More than 4,300 migrants have died this year trying to reach their destinations. In the Mediterranean Sea alone, 3,200 people have perished, and in the Andaman Sea, just east of the Bay of Bengal, thousands of migrants have been stranded on boats with nowhere to land, or have been held hostage by their traffickers.

The building that houses the Jessore Shahittyo Parishad is not much to look at. From its appearance, it's difficult to get a measure of the impact it made in its heyday.

Bangladesh has previously chaired both the LDC Group as well as the CVF and remains a senior member of both groups. It will thus have an important role to play at COP22 in Marrakech in November.

Bangladesh lacks an e-waste (electronic waste) disposal policy. Urbanisation has brought forth rapid population growth of major urban

Wars are lasting longer and refugees are finding it harder to return home – with the length of displacement in some cases stretching across generations. Contrary to prevailing impressions, the vast majority of refugees are not in rich countries; 86 percent are in the developing world. And the poorer countries hosting refugees do not receive nearly enough help.

Horrors of Partition came to my mind when I saw television channels beaming pictures of rioting and killing in Bengaluru. I felt the

ISIS, Islamic Caliphate

The National Committee for Saving the Sundarbans (NCSS) yesterday responded to the answers to “10 questions”

The Sundarbans, a magnificent and unique ecosystem of the world, faces an existential crisis today with the coal-fired power

The soon to be built $1.49 billion Rampal coal-fired power plant has generated concern and controversy among the citizens, environmental experts, and government officials in the country and abroad. The main concern being the potential of irreversible damage to the unique eco-system of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.

The mode of operation and determination of the terrorist executors coupled with the savagery that surfaced during the recent

There is no ambiguity in knowing Abul Mansur Ahmad. His success and political consciousness introduce him to us. His writing, his thoughts and his passion captured the force that was unleashed by the flourishing and emergence of the Muslim middle class.

There have been high- profile and well-orchestrated series of visits made to the region and beyond by top US dignitaries of late. Even as US Secretary of State John Kerry was in the midst of a whirlwind tour of Bangladesh, President Obama embarked on his valedictory odyssey across the Asia-Pacific region. Optimistically, if a little nostalgically, this may seem to rhyme with his geo-political pivot to Asia.

John Kerry had listed the areas that the US government had aided Bangladesh in since its independence. But if it really wants Bangladesh to develop, the only policy that will make US' role as our development partner meaningful is a 'hand up' rather than 'handout' policy; handout is what foreign aid turns out to be in the long run.

The militants turned off all the lights inside the Holey Artisan Bakery around an hour after they stormed the upscale café in the capital's Gulshan.

Stabbed by her alleged stalker at the entrance to her school, Suraiya Akter Risha, a student of Willes Little Flower School, Dhaka, succumbed to her injuries last Sunday.

Very day, we see news of a CNG-driven vehicle or Liquefied Petroleum (LP) cylinder used in households bursting and most recently, the explosion that rocked at the Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) plant in Chittagong that caused release of toxic substances into the surrounding areas and atmosphere.

The killing of Tamim Chowdhury, the alleged 'mastermind' of the terrorist attack on July 1 at Holy Artisan Café in Dhaka and the failed bomb attack at Sholakia on July 7, is a breakthrough in the ongoing counter-terrorism efforts in Bangladesh. Chowdhury was identified as the key planner of these attacks and according to the ISIS propaganda magazine; he was 'the Emir' of the Bangladesh chapter of the Islamic State.

We live in a world of instant news and communication, with its enormous

War remains the decisive human failure of which children are the worst victims. That was my first reaction when I saw the photo of