Bangladesh needs to invest in home-based childcare
29 August 2026
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Views
It is time to make menstrual leave a reality in Bangladesh
29 August 2026
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Opinion
Nine years on, the Rohingya still don't have a safe road home
29 August 2026
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Blowin’ in the Wind
Bangladesh’s gas crisis is also a logistics crisis
29 August 2026
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Views
More LNG is not the answer to Bangladesh's energy crisis
28 August 2026
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Views
Modern-day parenting needs better support
28 August 2026
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Views
We need to prioritise future-ready skills over freelancing
28 August 2026
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Views
The Pink Bus paradox and the price of women's safety
28 August 2026
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Views
Can Invest Bangladesh live up to the expectations?
26 August 2026
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Views
Our health system is better resourced now. Why can’t it still deliver?
26 August 2026
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Views
Dhaka’s rooftops could feed the city, but law keeps getting in the way
Even when rooftop farms are operational, they are not recognised as valid food sources.
10 July 2025
The digital strip search: How America’s visa edicts redraw colonial borders in cyberspace
The irony? The US condemns China’s "social credit system" while implementing behavioural vetting via visa forms.
10 July 2025
Challenging the Fifteenth Amendment through legal doctrine
As with questions of constitutionality and legitimacy, the tenure of the current government has sparked ongoing debate
10 July 2025
Bangladesh’s development model is failing its people
True progress is not measured by GDP alone, but by how fairly growth benefits are shared.
10 July 2025
Dhaka’s drains, dengue, and denial
During monsoon, Dhaka becomes a soggy simulation.
10 July 2025
When likes shape the message
Communication strategy is now a content calendar.
9 July 2025
Lessons we must learn before aspiring to be like Singapore
Unfortunately, much of our development narrative is undermined by corruption, nepotism, lack of law enforcement, and policy inconsistency.
9 July 2025
How we could broaden our export base
Diversifying Bangladesh’s export basket has been a high-priority policy objective for many years.
9 July 2025
The untold stories behind student deaths abroad
This week, a Bangladeshi student was found dead in an apartment in Japan
8 July 2025
Reversing the decline of Dhaka's canals
Any flood flow and sub-flood flow zones must be protected.
8 July 2025
Bangladesh's growth depends on women's economic empowerment
There are three major aspects of women’s empowerment—social, political and economic.
8 July 2025
Who is sponsoring bribery in Bangladesh?
Why do people offer bribes in the first place?
8 July 2025
Remand redecorated: Same torture, new curtains?
Let’s be clear: no law in Bangladesh is safe from abuse when power is unaccountable. Our track record speaks for itself.
8 July 2025
We can’t afford another discredited election
Shamsul Huda’s legacy is a lesson—integrity, transparency, and independence are not optional. Not this time…
7 July 2025
In Dhaka, relaxation comes with a bill
Dhaka offers less than 1.5 m² of formal open space per resident.
7 July 2025
A viral photo, a lesson for BNP
Today, the real fight is not just in speeches or rallies, but in what people see and believe on social media platforms
7 July 2025
How Mamdani toppled a titan and redefined American politics
As a Muslim of Indian-Ugandan descent, Mamdani's identity invited scrutiny.
6 July 2025
The future of indigenous recognition in Bangladesh
The state must realise that acknowledging and empowering its indigenous peoples is not a concession; it is a constitutional and moral obligation.
6 July 2025
Was the Bonn climate talk promising for the upcoming COP30?
The COP30 presidency wishes to achieve some tangible outcomes.
6 July 2025
One year after July: A nation waits in uncertainty
There was, for a brief interval last month, the hope of reaching consensus, of returning to democratic nation-building in earnest.
6 July 2025