ALMOSt all the preparatory steps for the first round of UP elections are now over – the only thing that is still left is the actual polling on

That does it mean for a man, or a woman, to have 'a life led in politics'? Is it one in the midst or at the forefront of great events...

He stood there at the reception, with a sling bag filled with documents. He worked for a courier company. He was 10 years old.

Before deplaning, I make sure that I won't have to use the bathroom facilities for the one to two hours that I will spend in the terminal building. The stench of the bathrooms is overpowering! One shudders to think of the reaction of foreigners.

The recent hacking of the Bangladesh Bank system to steal at least $100 million reveals the vulnerability of the central bank's IT infrastructure, weak operational architecture and probable insider link. The heist also puts to question what kind of network architecture and firewall it has in place. Everybody is talking about malware injection into the BB system but nobody is asking how the malware could enter the supposed-to-be most robust and secure system of a central bank in the first place.

One of my better lessons of life has been the understanding, and with good reason that, that if someone is upset with you, shows

If we peel back the layers of the most recent crimes such as the killing of children and the disturbing prevalence of violence against women...

One thing constant in the varying nature of killing children is how ruthlessly a life is nipped in the bud. Be it infanticide, prolicide or paedocide, that nipping is shocking no matter who does it and how it's done.

The absence of rational discourse itself is driving the chain of events in today's Bangladesh. That certainly cannot bode well for the nation going forward.

Women who opt to work in garment factories, instead of working as a domestic help or getting married, are often viewed as women of “loose character.” In fact, this is the case for all working women, be it RMG workers, or journalists, photographers or field researchers.

A SMS notification at two in the dead of the night would obviously, you think, be a text message of utmost importance, probably (pray

The standoff at New Delhi's famous Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) that has transfixed India has nothing of the routine campus controversy about it.

Being an alpha male, I am rightfully upset for having to turn the right cheek, but I'm right as rain now. After all, when it comes to a bike versus a car, the tide of the argument, as experienced here, is in essence the rite of road rage.

AT the risk of sounding “anti-growth” and “anti-exports” – and heck, of damaging the “image” of the country (because, apparently,

While lower fuel cost may keep the cost of driving low and the opportunity cost of conservation high, the setback is predicted to be temporary.

The difference also came through the indomitable character of its people. Given the lowest investment in research, Bangladeshis can make the highest amount of innovations as seen in agriculture and services.

The tourism industry has indeed become a major impetus to growth through its direct and indirect positives.

BANGLA-DESH is in a quandary. There are two major concerns in the country. The first is of course the need to overcome the present

The dejection in 15-year-old Ranjina Khatun Rojoni's face says it all. Physical pain, humiliation, disillusionment and despair are all written in that child's countenance – expressions that tell us how we have failed our children.

Farmer Ramesh Chandra Das of Raigram village in Jhenidah's Kaliganj upazila has good reason to champion betel leaf. “From growing