What the 57th border talks refused to say about BSF killings and push-ins
14 June 2026, 10:00 AM
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Who pays for a fossil-free future? Bonn talks must answer the question
14 June 2026, 09:00 AM
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With opposition inputs, the budget debate finally matures, but constraints persist
14 June 2026, 11:00 AM
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How falling real prices threaten Bangladesh’s apparel sector
14 June 2026, 08:00 AM
RMG NOTES
A budget of promises, pressures, and unanswered questions
13 June 2026, 09:00 AM
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As El Niño looms, Bangladesh must brace for extreme heat
13 June 2026, 13:00 PM
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Air pollution: What Beijing got right that Dhaka still hasn't
13 June 2026, 12:00 PM
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Will this be the budget that transforms education?
13 June 2026, 10:00 AM
Opinion
A budget built on recovery and reform, but can it deliver?
12 June 2026, 08:00 AM
MACRO MIRROR
Rule cannot survive on fear alone: Foucault, Althusser, and our mob culture
12 June 2026, 10:00 AM
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A new great game begins. Will Bangladesh be in it?
It is too early to conclude if the IPEF is a prelude to Donald Trump's Trans-Pacific Trade agreement in a different cloak.
1 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh needs to be smart about US sanctions
Once the shouts of "conspiracy" and the routine blame games have subsided, we will have to come to terms with the rapidly changing geopolitics, of which these sanctions are symptomatic.
1 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Gun violence in the US: Bullets, politicians and corporate lobbyists
Even the children who have never had a shooting at their own school are not free from the damage.
1 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Syndicates in migration: Re-accessing the Malaysian labour market
Is a nexus of a few Bangladeshi recruitment agencies and a powerful segment of the human resources ministry in Malaysia trying to impose unfair and unethical conditions on the long-awaited reopening of the Malaysian labour market?
1 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Russian invasion of Ukraine: Understanding Bangladesh’s position
Bangladesh’s abstention from voting on a resolution on March 2, 2022 is not a diplomatic dilemma.
1 June 2022, 16:00 PM
India’s caste census and the chimera of data-driven policymaking
Caste census, once again, is the talk of the town—at least in the Indian state of Bihar.
1 June 2022, 14:00 PM
Revive zila parishads to better serve people
Authorities must take steps to turn the zila parishads into powerful institutions
1 June 2022, 11:25 AM
No ifs or buts, DSA must be amended for everyone’s sake
DSA is being used to target voices of dissent
1 June 2022, 09:43 AM
When KK was a patch of bright sunshine to me
Whether in a crowd or left alone, KK perfectly reflected that unmistakable sense of yearning and pain for a phase of life which is gone forever.
1 June 2022, 09:42 AM
The testimony of Manik Mia
After the death of journalist Tofazzal Hossain, popularly known as Manik Mia, politician, journalist and litterateur Abul Mansur Ahmad wrote in a commemorative article titled “Jati Je Manik Harailo,” “It didn’t take us long to understand (what a gem we had lost); the countrymen understood it much later.”
31 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Democracy crushed under BCL’s boots?
What earned the JCD such a thrashing?
31 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Be careful with ‘over-optimism’ for megaprojects
One important but oft-ignored thing is that design and implementation mistakes delay the revenue-generation phase of megaprojects.
31 May 2022, 18:00 PM
No point in WASA water only being safe at source
The two organisations did not conduct any test on tap water or water collected from the pipes within the Wasa distribution network. Why?
31 May 2022, 13:25 PM
Death by development?
How is it that a government megaproject does not have enough safety measures in place so as not to cause the death of a passer-by?
31 May 2022, 12:41 PM
Why revisit SDG financing strategy in Bangladesh?
Recently, the United Nations published the Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2022, highlighting the slow progress of Covid-19 recovery in developing countries due to fiscal constraints, while developed economies recovered quickly by borrowing a record amount of low-interest loans.
30 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Of Lemon, Soap, Vaseline and EVMs
Should the Election Commission take the controversial route of using EVMs in the next general election?
30 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Another road crash, another pointless tragedy
Govt must enforce the transport act, make roads safer
30 May 2022, 12:53 PM
DGHS raids on illegal clinics expose the rot in health sector
Health authorities must ensure proper follow-up actions
30 May 2022, 12:39 PM
We need a social business model of medicine production
Patent-free global medicine production is the way to go in order to fight the next pandemic.
30 May 2022, 10:10 AM
Green finance must be open to SMEs
Despite Bangladesh having a large number of green factories, the SMEs in our garment industry are still struggling to access green finance.
29 May 2022, 18:00 PM