Bangladesh has recorded another historically weak year in implementing its Annual Development Programme (ADP).

Across workplaces, civic organisations, and notably trade unions, young people contribute actively, yet opportunities to participate in leadership and decision-making mostly remain concentrated among senior leaders.

SSC results day usually reveals two opposing realities: in one, families celebrate, students hug their parents, and social media fills with photographs of GPA-5 achievers.

Hasina’s return threat, Bangladesh’s economic pressures and shifting ties with India are narrowing the government’s room for manoeuvre

Bangladesh’s healthcare sector has long grappled with severe structural limitations.

In Bangladesh, divorce is still too often treated not as a legal ending of a marriage not working as intended, but as a moral failure, especially on the part of a wife.

The move towards Bangla QR in Bangladesh is timely and welcome.

In today’s world, countries do not earn international trust by manufacturing vaccines alone. They earn it by demonstrating that every vaccine is developed, produced and regulated according to the highest scientific standards.

Following an intensive negotiating process spanning about a year, Bangladesh and South Korea signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on August 4, 2026.

Every day, people in Bangladesh leave home expecting to return safely, but for too many, that expectation never comes to pass.

Women breaking out of the patriarchal cage during the struggle against fascism is, for many, like the decorative showpieces we keep in our cupboards at home—taken out when guests arrive and put back on the shelf once they leave.

The BNP-led government is reportedly moving to privatise the import and marketing of refined petroleum products.

Dhaka’s response to the decision to allow Hasina to speak remotely at the FCC-hosted event was both expected and justified, although some argue that an even stronger protest could have been lodged through a more carefully calibrated choice of words.

The question of accountability and transparency in state institutions often arise when Bangladesh faces a major public controversy.

Across Indigenous and rural Bangalee communities in the country, traditional midwifery is gradually disappearing.

A recent Prothom Alo report on at least 325 retracted papers affiliated with researchers at Bangladeshi universities has attracted significant public attention, with indignation expressed at the state of Bangladesh’s scholarly enterprise.

The narrative of a success story about reaching near-universal enrolment and closing the gender gap in primary education in Bangladesh is quite justified, but the achievement itself is neither exceptional nor improbable, as is sometimes claimed.

Urban policies must be designed and implemented to effectively balance a city’s practical needs with genuine environmental conservation.

Consumers will often tolerate minor transactional delays, but they are unlikely to tolerate the lingering fear that their lives’ savings could be compromised in an instant.

That Bangladesh needs roads and reliable transportation for haor communities is beyond question. But such infrastructure must be designed around the pathway of the water rather than imposed across it.