Recently, I read that Pakistan, a major competitor of Bangladesh in garment and textile production, had hit record textile exports. The country posted an uptick in textile exports year-on-year of 40 percent in FY2021-22 to the level of USD 21 billion.

Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar speaks with Mohiuddin Alamgir of The Daily Star about various issues related to the outgoing Bangladesh Election Commission, as well as the elections held during its five-year tenure, which expires today. This is the last of a two-part series of interviews marking the occasion.

The economy of Bangladesh has fared very well despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. From 3.5 percent growth in FY2019-20, the economy recovered fast.

Urgent measures needed to tackle rising prices and disappearing jobs

It is good news that the expatriates’ welfare ministry is considering revising the migration cost for the Bangladeshi job seekers in the international markets.

Violence against women and girls increases during periods of crisis. So it should come as no surprise that Covid-19 has added to the risk of increased gender-based violence.

Election Commissioner Md. Rafiqul Islam talks to Mohiuddin Alamgir of The Daily Star about various issues and allegations that marked the five-year tenure of the outgoing Election Commission, which ends on February 14, 2022. This is the first part of a two-part interview series intended to mark the occasion.

The unfortunate fact of our times is that all reports on Bangladesh’s socio-economic progression almost invariably point to the lack of good governance as a significant deficit in our developmental strides.

Another example of the health ministry’s inefficiency

The established education system of many countries and the perspective of parents are responsible for destroying the individualism of young people. Students

When the Indian cargo vessel MV, named after former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, set sail carrying 200 tonnes of food grain on a 2,350 km journey

To understand what our adolescents dream about the future, researchers at the Economic Relations Division (ERD) under the finance ministry conducted an explorative survey between August and September 2021.

Every new year brings new hope in our lives. We hope that things will finally change.

We welcome the instruction of the parliamentary standing committee on the environment ministry to take necessary measures to shut down the Savar

How many more court dates till Sagar-Runi get justice?

We are quite concerned at the increasing incidents of cybercrimes against women and children in Bangladesh. According to Ain o Salish

The one issue dominating British politics for weeks is nothing other than the partying going on at the heart of the government, at 10 Downing Street, the office-cum-residence of the prime minister.

Retired Indian diplomat Chandrashekhar Dasgupta’s recollection of the events of 1971, centring on the Bangladesh Liberation War as captured in his recently published book, India and the Bangladesh Liberation War:

Plastic pollution is a major threat to our environment, biodiversity, economy and health. I have come across many newspaper reports recently

Since the US sanction on Rab and few of its present and former officials, there have been several comments from our ministers on the topic.