THE integration of artificial intelligence into healthcare is ushering in a new era of medical innovation and practice, promising to revolutionise how diseases are diagnosed, treated and managed. With its ability to analyse massive datasets, automate...
WHEN a cyclone lashes a coastal district or floodwaters submerge the land, we tally houses destroyed, acres lost and embankments breached. Yet, the gravest damage often appears only after the waters recede: women with no safe place to...
THE government has spent a total of Tk 181.29 million on road safety campaigns in six financial years. But, whilst the government has not so far conducted an assessment on how effective the campaigns have been in ensuring road safety, experts say...
CRIMES of enforced disappearance and custodial torture in secret detention centres that the law enforcement agencies committed under the deposed Awami League government continue to haunt families of the victims as their cry for justice...
FOR nearly three years, the war in Ukraine has consumed the political, economic and diplomatic energies of world powers. The battlefield has hardened into stalemate, diplomacy has yielded little and western strategies increasingly look like repetitions of...
AUGUST 30 is International Day of the Disappeared. A day not only for prayers and tears, but also a day to denounce, loudly demand justice and renew the vow to never lose hope. Enforced disappearances are continuing offences. They may span days, months and...
SANJANA (pseudonym) is a third-year student at one of the most renowned universities of Bangladesh where she finds herself constantly struggling with rigorous routines, weekly tests and assignments, and sometimes hefty deadlines. Situations in her...
THE country鈥檚 education sector has slipped into a state of restless paralysis. Students protest at Shahbagh, at Barisal highway crossings, at the gates of Jagannath University, while teachers 鈥� from government primary schools to private colleges...
AIR pollution continues to worsen while corrective measures remain fragmented and ineffective. Bangladesh faces a persistent health crisis as fine particulate matter increasingly erodes life expectancy. The latest Air Quality Life Index report shows that...
INDIA鈥橲 Border Security Force has once again promised to stop killing Bangladeshis by employing additional precautionary measures whilst Border Guard Bangladesh has renewed its call for an end to such violence in the frontiers. Dhaka has also...
FIVE journalists were among the 22 people killed on August 25, 2025, in Israeli strikes on the Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip. Following global condemnation, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement saying Israel...
THE climate crisis is no longer an impending threat discussed in distant scientific circles rather it has arrived and is reshaping the world before our eyes. From unprecedented wildfires and deadly heatwaves to erratic monsoons and rising seas, the...
FROM Arctic ice fields to the depths of the Mariana Trench 鈥� and now, disturbingly, inside the human brain 鈥� microplastics have made themselves at home in every corner of the Earth. These minuscule plastic fragments, most smaller than five...
FOR generations, a toxic statement has echoed in our society: 鈥榃omen work less than men.鈥� This belief has shaped gender roles, justified unequal treatment, and diminished the value of women鈥檚 daily labour. But when we look closely, the myth does not stand the test of reality.
THE government鈥檚 move to set prices of essential medicines and the cost of medical tests is welcome. The government on August 26 announced that a committee had been formed to set medicine prices. The setting of medicine prices and medical test...