Over the past few months, a phrase once quite common has again entered Bangladesh’s official communication: “following the prime minister’s order.”

The combined weight of economic instability, systemic nepotism, and professional invisibility is quietly driving this generation out of the country.

At the local level, these elections are significant as they enable citizens to hold leaders accountable for not meeting their expectations. However, local government bodies should be allowed to work independently and be empowered to shoulder their responsibilities effectively.

Through his work at Buet, AUST, and UGC, Professor M. H. Khan laid the very foundations of engineering education in Bangladesh, which will undoubtedly prove to be even more essential in our future as a nation rooted in knowledge, skills, and innovation.

Women students documented degrading online abuse, identified perpetrators, and called for preventive action. Yet, no effective anti-harassment mechanism was established, and meaningful accountability never followed.

We must remember that the consequences of bad policy choices are not immediately visible; sometimes, they emerge after years, but when they do, the effects become systemic and unbearable.

The importance of adopting Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and Strategic Purchasing (SP) has been discussed in Bangladesh's health sector for many years.

It may sound like a broken gramophone record for us to continue lamenting the absence of the chief information commissioner and two information commissioners in Bangladesh since September 2024, following the political transition after the July uprising.

It was interesting to follow recent discussions surrounding the proposed or likely developments in merging some departments at Dhaka University as well as making traditional humanities departments like Bangla, History, and Philosophy redundant in honours programmes under the National University.

On a recent visit to Chattogram, I met a young man who had completed a four-year diploma in mechanical technology.

The global trading system has been experiencing significant transformation since the World Trade Organization (WTO) was created in 1995.

Over the years, Dhaka has gained notoriety for the severe gridlock affecting the lives of commuters.

The FY2026-27 national budget identifies agriculture as one of its 10 strategic priorities.

In 2026, the latest labour force data available on the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) website is from 2024.

As heavy monsoon rains once again leave large parts of Bangladesh underwater, the familiar scenes of waterlogging have left many wondering why our cities continue to fail despite massive investments in drainage infrastructure.

A political outsider only a decade ago, Farage transformed British politics through his relentless focus on immigration

On the night when Argentina played Egypt last week, 38-year-old auto-rickshaw driver Shariful Islam was watching the match at a roadside tea stall in Cumilla as Lionel Messi missed a penalty.

Recently, The Daily Star published an article titled “Why Bangladesh’s children are in school but not learning”, written by John Richards and Shahidul Islam, who cited data showing a sharp decline in enrolment in government schools and evidence from national and international assessments that many children complete primary education without acquiring foundational literacy and numeracy skills.

There is a peculiar danger in public-health success: the better a system works, the easier it becomes to take it for granted. Bangladesh’s measles outbreak is demonstrating that paradox brutally.

A record-breaking Tk 51,746 crore budget allocation for climate-relevant interventions, marking a 26 percent surge from the previous fiscal year, seems like an unmitigated triumph for a nation on the frontlines of environmental precarity, until one looks closely at where the money actually goes.