US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expected Iran to crumble when they launched the surprise attack on February 28 while negotiations were going on, killing the latter’s supreme leader and several others.

High unemployment, weak investment, the need for job creation, curbing inflation, export diversification, and stabilising the banking sector are among the most urgent economic challenges.

Those of us who were there at the Ramna Race Course on that day have our own personal memories. Reminiscing them still warms our blood and generates that special feeling of pride that automatically holds our heads high.

Critical decisions are usually judged by three things: their merit, method, and meaning or significance.

Choose cabinet with utmost care, for it may determine success or failure

Discard the mindset that ‘the election is only fair if I win’

We are now justifiably focused on the upcoming general election, which will hopefully give us an elected and accountable government and restart our journey towards democracy.

After the last three manipulated elections, the people of Bangladesh are eagerly waiting to exercise their fundamental right to vote.

Her last speeches call for a politics of ‘no vengeance’.

Begum Rokeya led a deeply pious life, full of respect for Islam and its values.

Judicial independence is formally guaranteed; its actual implementation will require moral courage from judges themselves.

Why have we failed to give quality education to schoolgoers?

Her reputation lies in ruins and her political career buried under a mountain of debris of self-righteous arrogance, misgovernance, and impunity

No compromise on holding elections on time

Can the vision for 'New Bangladesh' ignore the poor, farmers, workers, youth, women, or employment and climate crises?

We must never forget for a moment that rule of law must be practised in its totality, and not through convenient segments.

Those who are working to prevent the election should question themselves as to how the people will be empowered without one.

No provision in the constitution should be outside the purview of the judiciary

The election in February 2026 is among the most important challenges that we are going to face.

Denigration of our Liberation War will never be acceptable