Crocodiles, snakes, and India’s sovereignty anxiety
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Farmers of the haors are dying of despair
5 May 2026, 08:00 AM
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Advancing Bangladesh’s energy sovereignty for a resilient future
5 May 2026, 09:00 AM
MACRO MIRROR
As a flood-prone country, Bangladesh needs stronger early flood warning systems
5 May 2026, 11:00 AM
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Dhaka’s Metro Rail: Why are we paying so much?
4 May 2026, 09:00 AM
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Without NBR reform, the revenue crisis will only deepen
4 May 2026, 13:00 PM
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Pedagogy and power: Teacher-student dynamics in our universities
4 May 2026, 10:00 AM
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West Bengal polls: The dubious logic of ‘logical discrepancy’
4 May 2026, 08:00 AM
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Why Bangladesh needs its own media freedom index
3 May 2026, 16:05 PM
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No glaciers, no future
Sea level rise, flash floods, and heat waves are the direct consequences of glacier melting.
27 February 2023, 03:00 AM
The expanding horizon of thought policing
The themes of 1984 are relevant to this date, especially for government agencies dealing with surveillance, and misuse and manipulation of information.
26 February 2023, 17:00 PM
How agritech solutions can drive smart development
A closer look at the agritech vision reveals how it is highly allied with Bangladesh’s macro-level visions.
26 February 2023, 14:00 PM
Balloongate: Lots of Hot Air and the Cold US/China Hotline
Why hasn’t some form of hotline been established between the United States and China? What are the leaders waiting for?
26 February 2023, 11:00 AM
Making room for Bangla in our public schools
An innovative and compact method of training that empowers teachers to conduct classes in an effective manner has to be designed.
26 February 2023, 02:00 AM
Bangladesh’s chronicle of shoddy gas exploration
Geoscientists have long been suggesting that significant gas resources still remain underground in the country, and the present gas demands may well be met through extracting our own gas.
25 February 2023, 17:00 PM
Who stands for freedom?
We desperately need free markets, but that means, above all, markets that are free from the stranglehold of monopoly and monopsony.
25 February 2023, 12:00 PM
South Asia’s human capital is the resilience it needs
The Covid-19 pandemic pushed an additional 35 million people across South Asia into extreme poverty
25 February 2023, 08:30 AM
US, India, and the election in Bangladesh
The foreign diplomats appear to have become more active with the 12th parliamentary election less than a year away.
25 February 2023, 03:00 AM
Does a degree in Bangla have no value?
What are the factors that contribute to the marginalisation of the academic degree of a language in its own country?
24 February 2023, 16:00 PM
Coping with a perfect economic storm with IMF support
Bangladesh’s economy buckled, but it did not break. However, challenges remain.
24 February 2023, 14:00 PM
‘The danger of an all-out world war is ever present’
Famed war correspondent John Pilger discusses the Russia-Ukraine war.
24 February 2023, 07:00 AM
A Farewell to Russia
Russia is special, but mainly in the sense that it is uniquely capable of destroying, in a matter of days, what took centuries to build.
24 February 2023, 02:00 AM
President, Presidency and Democracy
A government cannot always be totally moral, but a president has to be.
23 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Polluted development: Profits for few, losses for all
Staying silent against environmental pollution is serving the interests of the elite who are making profits from pollution.
23 February 2023, 16:00 PM
Digital literacy is key to building a Smart Bangladesh
It can prepare us for the nation’s present and future needs
23 February 2023, 14:00 PM
The Dark Side of Neutrality
Those who would claim neutrality forfeit their standing to complain about the horrors of colonisation anywhere.
23 February 2023, 06:55 AM
Paradoxes of terrorism in Bangladesh
'The Politics of Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Bangladesh' contains insightful and critical analyses.
23 February 2023, 03:00 AM
Making our public food distribution system work
With the soaring inflation rate in recent times, the importance of effective public food distribution cannot be emphasised enough.
22 February 2023, 17:52 PM
Prioritise piped water supply in our municipalities
The municipal bodies must take water supply as their mandatory function more seriously and draw up a medium-term plan to bring 100 percent of urban population under a piped water supply network by 2030.
22 February 2023, 16:30 PM