Congratulations to Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir for being elected president of Bangladesh. We believe he will restore to the post much of the dignity that was eroded by the former one.

Changes in Gulf security can quickly reach Bangladeshi households through remittances, employment, energy prices, shipping costs, and inflation.

A significant yet mostly avoided question in Bangladeshi politics is who is paying for it and what they are gaining from doing so.

The tragedy met by nine workers inside an LNG carrier at the Ferdous Steel Ship Recycling Industries in Chattogram’s Sitakunda on August 14 has, once again, raised concerns about the effectiveness of the safety, compliance, and certification system in our ship recycling sector.

The population story of Bangladesh has long been regarded as a major development success. Fertility fell considerably, child survival improved, life expectancy increased, and the country entered a favourable period in which working-age people outnumbered dependants.

Water is more than a natural resource for Bangladesh’s Indigenous communities—it is a source of life, culture, identity, and spirituality.

The police in Bangladesh still seem to have little regard for negotiation as a tactic to deal with crowds.

After all, a human rights commission with actual authority may create several administrative difficulties.

In the early 1970s, Bangladesh was considered overpopulated due to the country’s limited land area and resources; and the government declared rapid population growth as a national problem in the country in 1976.

Women-only buses may offer safer journeys, but they must not become an excuse to make the rest of Bangladesh’s transport system less welcoming to women

Lord Acton's warning, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” has been quoted so often that it has lost its edge.

Employees in Bangladesh’s formal sector retire from a defined post and wait, sometimes in vain, for a pension. Informal employees, who make up more than 80 percent of all workers, usually don’t retire at all.

Bangladesh did it in Darwin on Sunday, in the capital of Australia’s Northern Territory, far from the country’s traditional cricketing centres.

In Bangladesh’s public health sector, what was once a seasonal concern confined largely to Dhaka has mutated into a year-round, nationwide crisis.

It’s been six months since the BNP-led government took office after winning the national election on February 12, right in the middle of high inflation, weak revenue mobilisation, banking sector weaknesses, stagnant private investment, an employment crisis, and a vulnerable energy sector.

Unnecessarily complex administrative procedures can discourage entrepreneurship, drive away investment, and deprive Bangladesh of valuable employment, exports, and economic growth.

Bangladesh is preparing for an AI economy, but its existing technology base offers a warning that must be heeded.

August arrives in South Asia carrying an unusual historical weight. It’s the month of Partition, when India and Pakistan emerged from British rule in 1947.

Nine workers died after suspected toxic gas exposure on August 14 while working inside LNG carrier MT Rasi at Ferdous Steel Ship Recycling Industries in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila.

Essential medicine list and pricing are two important policy issues directly linked to people’s health, lives, and financial security.