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Salinity and the unseen health burden in coastal Bangladesh
12 July 2026, 23:55 PM
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Dhaka: How a city was planned to drown
12 July 2026, 17:12 PM
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Can Bangladesh’s 250 million tree pledge succeed?
11 July 2026, 00:00 AM
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Bonolata Sen's Natore: A topographic reading
10 July 2026, 00:03 AM
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When rain turns Dhaka's commute into a second job
9 July 2026, 14:28 PM
Monsoon Misery
Why Bangladesh’s children are in school but not learning
9 July 2026, 00:10 AM
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Why Bangladesh is still failing to protect children from infectious diseases
8 July 2026, 00:10 AM
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Why Bangladesh’s new data protection law may fail to protect your data
7 July 2026, 00:01 AM
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Why tensions are rising between Rohingya and Bangladeshis
6 July 2026, 15:44 PM
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Stereotypes, struggle, and survival: Reclaiming the Story Behind Mofiz
For a long time, people have made the derogatory word mofiz synonymous with the residents of the Rangpur region.
13 June 2025, 18:00 PM
Choking waters: The dangerous decline of oxygen in Dhaka’s peripheral rivers
Bangladesh, often described as a land of rivers, is criss-crossed by more than 230 major and minor waterways.
30 May 2025, 18:00 PM
The Kajoli model learning with laughter, growing with joy
“Who will pick up the duck’s photo?”
The moment Rafia Sonamoni posed the question to a group of 26 children, four eager hands shot up, accompanied by excited shouts of, “I will!”
23 May 2025, 18:00 PM
Beyond development paradox & unnayan without democracy
As Bangladesh seeks to recalibrate its path in the aftermath of recent upheavals, the time is ripe to revisit an oft-invoked but under-examined agenda: institutional reform. Institutions are crucial to understand, as they are foundational for governance, transformation, and economic development.
16 May 2025, 18:00 PM
Stop software piracy to prevent US tariffs
Trump’s proposed 37 percent tariff on Bangladeshi products would have crippled our economy; fortunately, the rate was reduced to a more manageable 10 percent.
8 May 2025, 11:11 AM
Dhaka's deadly air: What we know and what we can do
Dhaka's air is a stew of brick kiln soot, exhaust fumes, construction dust, and factory emissions
16 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Brains before bridges: Prioritising human capital over infrastructure
A glance at the recent history of the world’s most developed nations reveals a compelling truth: no country has ever achieved sustainable development without first investing in education and research.
29 December 2024, 18:00 PM
The Faces behind ‘Made in Bangladesh’
In a conversation with Lamia Karim, professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon, Eugene, about her research on Bangladesh's RMG workers.
24 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Sharing of Ganges water: What looms after 2026?
In 1976, a mass procession led by a nearly 80-year-old peasant leader, Maulana Bhasani, from Dhaka to the Indo-Bangladesh Border drew huge attention from national and international media.
18 February 2024, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh's new data protection act: brittle shield or blunt sword?
The Government of Bangladesh is drafting a data protection and localisation law (“draft data protection act, DPA” or “the law”), which, once enacted, will be the first of its kind data privacy law in Bangladesh.
12 September 2021, 18:00 PM