A single homicide investigation today may involve terabytes of data.

Violence against women and children has recently become a disturbingly regular occurrence in the country. Looking into the nature of these crimes makes one wonder if not humanity but savagery has taken us over.

As the BNP government prepares major revisions to school textbooks for the 2027 academic year, the changes reported by the media once again reveal a familiar pattern—authorities continuing to alter curriculum content, historical narratives, and learning priorities without addressing the deeper structural crisis in education itself.

Bangladesh is preparing its next national budget at a difficult moment when living costs remain high, private investment is weak, foreign exchange reserves are under pressure, development needs exceed domestic revenue, and a growing share of public expenditure is absorbed by debt servicing.

The government should treat nation branding and soft power as a policy priority.

Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976) is one of the greatest Bangla-language poets and a formidable revolutionary poet.

The media is, once again, saturated with graphic details of the horrific rape and murder of an eight-year-old child.

In Dhaka’s Pallabi, an eight-year-old was raped and murdered inside a neighbouring flat on May 19. Her body was dismembered in an attempt to conceal the crime.

Every woman has the right not only to survive childbirth, but also to live with dignity thereafter.

Last year marked the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, which remains the seminal global commitment to gender equality by member-states.

I am sitting in a hotel room in Islamabad, reading a recent Bonik Barta report that makes a compelling argument:

In Bangladesh, falling sick often means facing a financial crisis.

Eid-ul-Azha is, without a doubt, a festival of joy. It is also at the centre of a wide range of economic activities, i.e. the demand and supply of sacrificial animals, various rituals associated with the sacrifice itself, a seasonal leather market driven by the animal hides produced, Eid shopping, etc.

Bangladesh seems to be lurching from one public health crisis to another.

Bangladesh cricket has just witnessed a landmark moment, with player reactions and celebratory pictures already flooding social media.

Thousands of people across the country are being displaced every day by climate-induced events such as river erosion, salinity intrusion, floods, and cyclones. In search of livelihoods, these people are moving to large cities.

A society’s moral condition is often revealed through the way it treats the most vulnerable sections of its population, including children.

When 37 nations met in Colombia from April 24-29 to attend the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia, Bangladesh was not present.

Its original name was the Ganges Barrage, which is more appropriate because the river is known as the Ganges up to Daulatdia.

One of the enduring lessons from David Attenborough's century-long life is that it is never too late to save the planet