Bangladesh’s health sector stands at an important crossroads. On the one hand, we face the challenge of ensuring quality, accessible, and affordable healthcare for a large population.

By now, it is common knowledge that Bangladesh’s banking sector has several fundamental problems, with non-performing loans (NPLs) being the major one.

The debate over the recently passed Property Transfer (Amendment) Act, 2026—particularly the provision recognising a distinct form of property transfer that allows donors to retain lifetime usufruct rights—has again raised questions about the place of religious norms in the making of civil law. Some Islamist politicians and commentators have claimed that it violates Shariah provisions on property transfer and inheritance.

Bengal’s connections with the wider South run deep. An early Islamic narration tells of a ruler of Hind sending ginger to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), reflecting centuries-old exchanges between the subcontinent and Arabia.

Bangladesh’s vulnerability to climate change is well-established, but the greater concern lies in how climate shocks can interact with the existing economic challenges.

In the past, people would view a glacier chunk falling into a lake and causing a river to overflow as a cosmic event or divine act.

Bangladesh is living through a public health tragedy that should never have happened.

Bangladesh's energy crisis is now becoming a much larger economic problem with the potential of affecting foreign direct investment (FDI).

On September 6, I stood in the Jatiya Sangsad chamber with a strip of black cloth tied over my mouth and another over my ears.

Today marks the 25th year of the attacks on the United States by the transnational terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda.

What the Nazis did to the Jews, Israel is now doing to the Palestinians. I

The way mainstream newsrooms report on suicide has a profound impact on societal well-being and public health.

After the deaths of 10 workers following toxic gas exposure on August 14 at Ferdous Steel Ship Recycling Industries in Sitakunda, Chattogram, an 11-member investigation committee was formed by the industries ministry.

Tea workers across the country have been staging demonstrations for more than a month making for four demands, including a daily wage of Tk 500.

More than 40 people die by suicide each day in Bangladesh. Between 2020 and 2024, at least 76,361 people were recorded as having died by suicide, amounting to more than 15,000 lives every year.

Scooping up the global championship in defaulted loans is no mean feat.

The future of Bangladesh’s garment industry will be influenced by climate change, automation, artificial intelligence, environmental regulations, and changing consumer expectations.

For decades, the language of climate diplomacy has been strangely polite. Countries that contributed least to global warming spoke of vulnerability.

For Bangladesh’s government employees, the new pay scale brings understandable relief after years of high inflation and rising living costs.

About a year ago, a leading business leader told me a story about another business tycoon and once-powerful adviser to ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.