Bangladesh, with a population of nearly 170 million, boasts of a vast maritime boundary along the Bay of Bengal. Much like other oceans, the Bay of Bengal is also plagued by unprecedented levels of plastic pollution.

Plastics have become an integral part of our life. The world purchases around one million plastic bottles every minute and uses one billion plastic bags every hour.

What's happening to our rivers is not driven just by necessity, but also greed, a general disregard for the sanctity of life, and a reckless can-do-ism.

It is not clear how the money needed to implement this ambitious budget will be sourced.

Much like 1944, the raging Russia-Ukraine War has put humanity in deep trouble.

Bangladesh stands at the threshold of a paradigm shift in technological development as it is poised to change gear into a faster mode of economic development, and realising its vision of becoming a developed nation by 2041.

The budget is only an account of the government's income and expenditure, one can’t expect it to make any fundamental changes to the economic structure.

The global economy and planetary system are hugely imbalanced because of climate warming and widening social inequities.

It is interesting to note that the restrictions target a section of society that covets the US visa.

Perhaps Martin Amis’s works do not grab me for the most part because it veers too far away from the humanism of, say, Saul Bellow—a writer Martin greatly admires and has written about extensively.

The man eager to pay back his debt is becoming a rarity. Yet, he represents the hardworking, honest Bangladesh that can bring real change to the system.

The more roads you build, the more cars there will be to fill them up. I am no expert, but the numbers don’t lie.

The new budget has not displayed cognisance of the need for post-pandemic recovery and remedial actions.

Neeldhaja is the first Bangla poem to be written in the form of a letter; it places a female figure with a rebellious demeanor as the protagonist of a historical narrative.

Based on anecdotal evidence, complaints about the genre being “pure escapism”, “childish” and “uninteresting” are common. There are also reviews which accuse fantasy literature of being “formulaic”, “out of touch” and even “outdated”.

Misleading analyses can help propagate a narrative for immediate damage control, but are not helpful to overcome the real crisis.

There is no fairy tale end to the war in Ukraine, in which Ukraine defeats Russia on the battlefield and then joins Nato.

There is not much in it to make us feel better in terms of its focus and measures.

We should have focused on addressing the macro-fundamentals, which would create a launching pad for the coming year’s fiscal flow.

What reasons do we have to believe that Wasa is anything but the MD’s personal property?