Opinion

Pursuing climate justice in COP25 talks

The two-week long international conference on harmful climate change that started on Sunday, December 2 in Madrid should provide a fresh impetus to international efforts to push the world toward a carbon-free future. Ministers and officials from more than 190 countries gathered in Madrid for the two...

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Sheikh Hasina’s epoch making achievement

Located in the south-east corner of Bangladesh, the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) has a history of a bloody conflict between its Bengali settlers and indigenous communities. After the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975, the state deployed military forc...

Opinion

Air pollution: A silent public health emergency

Akash Shaha, a Bengali architect worked at a firm in Switzerland’s Zurich married a Swiss doctor and migrated to Dhaka.  However, their migration unfortunately lasted for approximately 432 hours.Shaha’s Swiss wife struggled a lot to adopt with Dhaka’s deadly air pollution and ...