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Bangladesh has been spared the worst-case scenario of overlapping disasters. But if heavy monsoon rains saturate the soil and a cyclone strikes soon after, the combined impact could be devastating. Co ...
Our transportation habits are being transformed by electric vehicles (EVs), which offer an eco-friendly alternative to traditional vehicles. However, one common concern for EV owners is ensuring they ...
One of the greatest joys and satisfactions of my life has been contributing to the development of Bangladesh's infrastructure -particularly during a time when the country urgently needed modern port ...
China’s involvement across the Indo-Pacific in March 2025 ranged from warming ties with India and deepening cooperation with ...
Amid ongoing debates on multilingualism, a look at George Grierson’s First Linguistic Survey of India that identified over ...
Researchers are drawing on interviews, sensors and crowd-sourced mapping to understand what gig workers on bikes encounter in ...
US President Donald Trump’s wide-reaching “Liberation Day” tariffs have come crashing down on countries that rely heavily on the export of low-cost garments and textiles to the US. But while the ...
Accessibility isn’t a ramp tacked onto a broken staircase. It must be the foundation. That means funding disability-led research. That means rewriting disaster protocols with disabled people at the ...
Many of us do too, and it can sometimes be a little alarming. A few weeks ago we were contacted by a reader who said that the ...
Sophie Phelan, an epidemiologist from Brisbane embarked on her second assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières /Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). She was tasked ...
Also read | Bangladesh awaiting India's response on proposed Yunus-Modi meeting at BIMSTEC summit The upcoming BIMSTEC summit will be the first physical meeting of the leaders since the 4th ...
The authors point out that, crisis or no crisis, the science of how global temperatures will respond to increased concentrations of greenhouse gases is built on fundamental physical understanding.