In joining the international community’s outrage UNHCR has urged Bangladesh to undertake an immediate investigation into the killing of Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah and hold those respo ...

Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Jeffrey Sachs has highly appreciated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her leadership in securing "tremendous" gains on different ...

There is no doubt that corruption is all-pervasive and is in no way interfering with "normal" life in everyday Bangladesh. There is the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) but we have no idea w ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated five power plants as the government planned to bring the country’s 100 percent population under electricity coverage. Sheikh Hasina inau ...

It was very pleasing to see two Yellow Bitterns fly back and forth at Shyampur, a few kilometres from the crowded Hemayetpur junction at Savar. Yellow Bitterns are very stealthy birds and ra ...

The message from the Afghan hills says that the Taliban is a reality whether one likes them or not. The other part is that the US sun is sinking, Russian is stalled and China's is rising ...

A roller was the bird that unexpectedly brightened our dull evening as we wandered in the National Botanic Garden at Mirpur. Being a bird of open areas, the roller was an unusual bird to be ...