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