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.

The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has long been the subject of serious controversy because of its involvement in enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, torture in secret detention facilities, and other grave human rights violations during the Awami League government’s tenure.

On August 13, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change published the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Guidelines on Plastic Waste Management, 2026.

In the aftermath of the 2007-09 global financial crisis, advanced countries created abundant liquidity through expansionary monetary policies.

In 1966, during the 14th session of its General Conference, Unesco declared September 8 as International Literacy Day (ILD).

Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy’s politics were never merely a sequence of offices held or crises endured;

When a child disappears, every passing minute is a very frightening experience for the family.

After years of discussions, assurances and uncertainty, the much-talked-about Ninth National Pay Scale has finally been approved.

Over the past two years, one word has repeatedly come to my mind as I explored politics in Bangladesh: “trust”.

Laldia could change what is physically possible at Chattogram port.

The goal is to make the existing transport sector safer and more accountable.

Over a week has passed since the tragedy that struck Nepal and some parts of Tibet. Horrific details are still emerging from the search and rescue reports,  with the latest tally putting the death toll at 1,375, with more than 5,500 people still missing.

During my inaugural public lecture of the Education Reform Initiative (ERI) last month, I argued that the education system was failing to convert years of schooling into learning, skills, employment, and productivity—a broken chain that remains central to our graduate unemployment crisis.

Bangladesh’s tea industry is passing through a critical phase. Auction prices have strengthened significantly; the hike in the minimum auction, or floor price, last year has added a new dimension; and demand for quality tea remains strong.

Nothing in a principled defence of Sifat Abdullah requires sanitising his words. His Facebook video clip contains crude and degrading verbal abuse directed at Prime Minister Tarique Rahman and his deceased parents, former President Ziaur Rahman and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia.

Scroll through Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or YouTube, and you will rarely go far without seeing a baby.