The recent announcement by the government to introduce a universal pension scheme (UPS) in Bangladesh from the 2022-23 fiscal year is a welcome and timely move.

Our RMG industry has been characterised by the phrase “feast or famine” these last two years. After Covid-19 broke out in early 2020, clothing orders were extremely hard to come by for a period of time.

As road crashes and deaths continue to surge in Bangladesh, despite all efforts by the authorities, one particular party that seems to be

When Deng Xiaoping launched China’s strategy of “reform and opening up” in 1978, economists in the West had their doubts.

An article in this daily, titled “Women don’t want to be superhumans” (published on February 2, 2022), has inspired me to write this column.

Restore the credibility of the institution

Global warming is having multidimensional impacts on countries and communities—and not just in terms of erratic climate events.

After two years, it is no wonder that people are fed up with the changes the Covid-19 pandemic has inflicted on us.

Dr Manzoor Ahmed, professor emeritus at Brac University and vice-chair of the Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE) Council, talks to Eresh Omar Jamal of The Daily Star about a new book, of which he is a co-author, on the political economy of education in South Asia.

Despite the higher authorities’ public expression of dissatisfaction with frequent revisions of government projects, the practice of taking projects to ECNEC meetings to be granted deadline extensions, design changes, expansion of scope and budget enhancements has continued unabated.

Effective oversight, subsidies needed to control prices

If a group of unruly men were to swoop down on students demanding justice for the gang rape of one of their classmates, what would it say about the men in

Moving from a unipolar world to a multipolar world was always likely to be messy and risk-prone.

Writer Mushtaq Ahmed paid the ultimate price for his freedom of expression, and it’s a matter of shame for us all that it happened in the year of the Golden Jubilee of Bangladesh’s independence.

There was a time, not long ago, when Bangla news editors would use the phrase “like the price of water” to connote the low cost of an item.

But its security concerns cannot be ignored

The government is reportedly set to launch a universal pension scheme in which any citizen, including expatriate Bangladeshis, aged between 18 and 50,

Riya and Rifat had been married for two years. They were expecting their first child in 2019.

It all started when a public interest litigation was filed in the summer of 2020, alleging infringement of constitutional rights due to the government’s failure to regulate content in over-the-top (OTT) media services.

We have been seeing a downward trend in the supply of locally produced gas for a while now; yet there have been little efforts to explore potential gas reserves, even though Bangladesh is known to have a considerable amount of gas reserves still unexplored.