The on-arrival mess
30-year-old Sharmin Akhter* holds dual citizenship. Born to a German father and a Bangladeshi mother, she possesses both countries' passports. She was nevertheless nearly deported from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport earlier this month.
5y ago
Will Bangladesh field its best ever team in the 2019 World Cup
Mashrafe Bin Mortaza celebrated his 200th ODI in style earlier this week, with a three-wicket haul that outfoxed a hard-hitting West Indian line-up and restricted the visitors to a below-par total, which the Tigers eventually cruised past with ease at Mirpur.
5y ago
Can bank alliances prevent human trafficking?
In early 2018, the Italian police intercepted a trafficking ring that dealt with workers from Bangladesh and India. Similar to almost every other trafficking story, the workers, in this case as well, were given false promises of jobs and brought to the country in exchange of exorbitant recruitment fees.
6y ago
The numbers that reflect the misery of our migrants
A recent report published by the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) on the impact of migration on household income, expenditure and poverty, highlights a number of interesting trends.
6y ago
Bangladesh's innovation challenge
A physicist from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) dominated the headlines last month when she, and her team of 25, made a breakthrough discovery in cancer detection.
6y ago
The dangerous half degree
A new report published last week by the United Nation's Inter Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an organisation consisting of leading climate scientists from all over the world, has warned that by 2030, the earth's temperature is expected to witness an increase by at least half a degree.
6y ago
From the shores of hell & back
“They thought I was dead,” Abdul tells Star Weekend. “I was stuck in a jail in Libya for over four months and I never had the chance to contact my family. They thought I had fallen from the boat [on the way to Italy from Libya] into the dangerous sea and disappeared forever,” he says.
6y ago
Is the future of Bangladesh cricket actually in danger?
Bangladesh's young cricketers came under immense criticism in the recently concluded Asia Cup. It did not take too long for people to dismiss the likes of Nazmul Hossain Shanto, Liton Das and Mosaddek Hossain.
6y ago
August 4, 2017
Are you ready to question the news?
The increasing dependence on user-generated content means fact-checking has become all the more important.
July 28, 2017
Humans for sale
Human trafficking in Bangladesh has taken a turn for the worse
July 21, 2017
After the carnage
On the evening of July 2, Zubin, a 30-year-old HR Manager, was on his way to his friend's house in Paltan when an SUV, owned by a high court judge, travelling on the wrong side of the road rammed into his bike and sent him flying.
July 14, 2017
The curious case of the C-section
Ideally, caesareans are a process that should be used only when there's an emergency and when the life of either the baby or the mother is in danger. But in Bangladesh, more than 80 percent of the deliveries in private hospitals are caesarean.
July 7, 2017
The deaths could have been prevented
The boiler explosion in a garments factory in Gazipur last Monday once again highlighted the government's inability to monitor the 5000-odd authorised boilers across the country.
June 23, 2017
A non-touristy tourist destination
One of the special aspects about Bhutan is the way they have maintained their tourism industry—they don't overdo it.
June 16, 2017
Digital repression in Digital Bangladesh
The number of cases filed under section 57 of the ICT Act seems to be on the rise. This year has already seen more than 260 cases.
June 9, 2017
When logic takes a back seat
To expect Bangladesh to ease past teams like Australia, England and New Zealand in conditions that they aren't used to in would be highly impractical.
June 2, 2017
Nomads in a land of rivers
“How can anybody survive there?” a frustrated Mohammad Gul-e-Noor laments. “Whatever we planted is now under water. Even the fish is floating dead. What will they eat there?"
March 31, 2017
Heralding a golden era of Bangladeshi cricket?
It's amazing how the likes of Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim have consistently performed for Bangladesh over the years.
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