Porimol Palma

Analysts said that PM Anwar's Madani vision and Chief Adviser Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus's track record of working for the marginalised people converge quite well.

Action is needed by Anwar Ibrahim and Muhammad Yunus to ensure migrants to Malaysia are not treated as modern-day slaves

On September 23, in the blink of an eye, Shahadat Hossain's years of savings, blood, sweat and toil became rubble.

Since May last year, Bangladesh faced more than a dozen extreme weather events -- four cyclones, nine incidents of floods, and multiple spells of heavy rains, heatwaves, and cold waves -- and now they threaten food security.

All nine members of the Constitutional Reform Commission are Bengali Muslims

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk is set to arrive in Dhaka tomorrow to discuss the updates on Bangladesh's human rights situation in the aftermath of the political changeover.

Around 12,000 workers and their families stare at an uncertain future since they haven't been paid for seven weeks

Airstrike kills Nizam Uddin in Lebanon; family mourns; expats in fear

The victory of Republican President Donald Trump, who, unlike the Democrats, focuses on America's domestic interests over anything else, means the progress in Dhaka-Washington ties will slow down, foreign policy analysts said.

Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur need to act quickly to bring to book the perpetrators behind the criminal networks engaged in money laundering and labour trafficking from Bangladesh, say labour migration experts.