To kick-start education reform, a high-level expert task force should be appointed.

When we speak about arbitrary arrest and detention, the discussion usually focuses on holding law enforcement agencies, especially the police, accountable.

A 2025 study of MRT users in Dhaka found that around 43 percent of passengers rely on informal rickshaws as their primary transport to stations.

Last week, uranium fuel loading began at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna, a moment Bangladesh’s scientists and engineers have awaited since plan to build a nuclear power plant was first conceived in 1961.

In the remote hills of Bandarban, a child’s illness is rarely just a medical event. It is a test of distance, terrain, poverty, and trust.

Just like the Bangladesh-US trade deal, the signing of the Bangladesh-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) at the end of the interim government’s tenure has sparked much debate.

BJP’s victory in the West Bengal assembly elections has been widely described as a tectonic shift.

Empirical data confirms the ongoing trend. According to figures released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the US dollar’s share of foreign currency reserves decreased from roughly 71 percent in 1999 to around 57 percent by the end of 2025, the lowest level recorded in the last 30 years.

Bangladesh does not suffer from a shortage of solemn words against torture. Article 35(5) of the constitution prohibits torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.

The rise of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal is more than just another electoral outcome.

BJP victory in West Bengal set to influence identity and territorial issues

The world is going through times of high climatic insecurity, exacerbated by unchecked global warming.

May 5 marks the International Day of the Midwife, with this year’s theme being “One Million More Midwives.” For Bangladesh, this is a call to complete a journey that began with great promise.

Over more than five decades, Bangladesh has progressed reasonably well in socioeconomic terms compared to many of its peers among the least developed and developing countries.

A plateful of rice may be considered an unhealthy overindulgence for those of us with sedentary lifestyles. Yet the Bangalee spirit cannot be satisfied in any other way.

Bangladesh remains imprisoned in a conversation about exam centres and grade sheets.

Is there any immediate prospect of reviving meaningful revenue sector reforms under the new government?

“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy,” Gloria Watkins (more widely known as “bell hooks”) used to say.

The issue of abnormally high costs in metro rail construction in Bangladesh has long been a subject of discussion and criticism.

The Election Commission faces legitimate, serious questions, but it is mitigated considerably by the fact that at the end of the day, West Bengal elections were held relatively peacefully, a huge achievement given the state’s torrid record.