Ban loan shark apps
Instant credit apps charge exorbitantly high rates while luring customers with misleading terms, and are completely unregulated by the authorities.
Flood management in Sylhet: We can’t fight a battle with ‘wet gunpowder’
It is the political will and democratic institutions that can bring back people's confidence.
Another spell of flooding can upend life in Sylhet
The frightening regularity and intensity with which we're being hit by floods should worry the policymakers.
Fatal backslide on women’s rights in US: China Daily editorial
The paper says it is the time for US politicians to stand up for human rights by stopping the worst backsliding on women's rights in the US in nearly 50 years.
Stateless refugees and the calculus of human worth
World Refugee Day is a good day to talk about how our world deals with statelessness. But maybe the conversation ought to start with the state.
Can the ‘fringe’ make the BJP cringe?
India is in hot water over derogatory remarks about Prophet Muhammad made by two ruling party leaders.
The expectation of privacy
Our private lives, once protected, are also now commodifiable. And here is where consent becomes an issue.
Cultural leverage to better neighborly ties
An increase in mutual awareness and partnership will surely be conducive to peace in the region along the bumpy road ahead.
Politics and the TikTok generation
The role that the TikTok algorithm—alarmingly characterised as the Weapon of the Century—plays in a national poll will have to be watched with interest.
The roads of death
Road crashes have become the norm in Bangladesh, claiming lives on a regular basis.