Strangely enough, although the government is unable to meet power needs, it pays thousands of crores to government and private power plants as fixed charges or capacity charges every month with taxpayers’ money.

Md Ziaul Haque, the director of Air Quality Management at the Department of Environment, talks with Naznin Tithi of The Daily Star about the factors behind severe air pollution in the country and why concerted efforts are needed from all ministries and government agencies concerned to fight it.

Bangladesh’s next national election is only a few months away, and the market is already very hot.

The banking sector in Bangladesh is at risk, given its huge amounts of distressed assets.

We rarely think about the fact that individuals studying under different education streams may have different perceptions of what being educated means and may have different educational goals and aspirations.

The movement after Mahsa’s death had forced Iran’s morality police off the streets until recently.

A pre-teen has been making news for boarding a Kuwait-bound flight from the Dhaka airport without any documentation.

If left unaddressed, lead poisoning will substantially strain Bangladesh's already challenged healthcare system.

What codes of safety and protection can ensure women’s right to, well, exist?

Editors are in quite a fix.

Around the world, diverse initiatives are being introduced to manage population changes.

Most of Bangladesh's young people did not have a chance to vote in the last two elections.

The experiences of Sri Lanka and Pakistan are lessons for everyone concerned with promoting the right to information.

We congratulate the chief justice for his forthright identification of one of the main issues of concern for Bangladesh’s future: corruption.

Ukraine is a moral tragedy, whereby no one wants to take tough decisions for peace, preferring to wage war in which hundreds of thousands have died, millions have migrated and the unspoken outcome is nuclear. 

The practice of adopting the husband’s surname upon marriage reflects societal and cultural beliefs about women's lives, seen as dependent and interconnected.

BIPSS President Maj Gen (retd) ANM Muniruzzaman in an exclusive interview with The Daily Star.

The credibility and significance of literacy rates become questionable when seen in the light of primary education outcomes and the character of the literacy projects undertaken so far.

The most optimistic among us rely on the consistent inconsistency of Bangladesh when they play international cricket.

The transport sector in Bangladesh is plagued by irregularities, lawlessness, unreasonable fares, and passenger distress