Amid narrowing choices, we need a credible economic strategy
23 September 2026
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Time to put warning labels on unhealthy packaged foods
23 September 2026
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When did violence become so normal in Bangladesh?
23 September 2026
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We must do more to protect boys from sexual abuse
23 September 2026
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Opinion / Managing Bangladesh’s latest fuel price shock
22 September 2026
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World Car Free Day / Time to speak up against fossil fuel use
22 September 2026
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Yaba is devouring our children, and we are still looking away
22 September 2026
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Opinion
Biman: An airline that flies on political fumes
22 September 2026
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Does Payra Port have any business model?
21 September 2026
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Managing our external debt needs a balanced strategy
Bangladesh's steadily rising debt levels are becoming a pressing issue.
9 September 2025
An election that could return Ducsu to the students
There is a sense of possibility in the air, a rare, almost tangible feeling that something is different.
8 September 2025
Bangladesh must bridge the adult and digital learning gap
Despite some progress in basic literacy, the country remains far behind in digital inclusion.
8 September 2025
23-min standing ovation for Hind Rajab, 28 small graves a day in Gaza
Does the 23-minute standing ovation for Hind Rajab's story mean anything beyond the echo?
8 September 2025
DUCSU election: Will informed voting triumph over inherited stigmas?
The historic event of 2024 disrupted the longstanding power dynamics of student politics, yet the narratives of equating persist.
7 September 2025
Strong on condemnation, weak on action
In 13 months, the government has issued at least 13 condemnations. That's one per month.
7 September 2025
Inaction as policy, lawlessness as outcome
The country deserves better than a government that only condemns after the fact
6 September 2025
The Cumilla crash exposes a systemic failure
The video of a crash in Cumilla last month presents the horrifying portrait of a system in collapse.
6 September 2025
Five and a half years ‘gone with the wind’
Breathing has become more lethal than smoking. How does one quit air?
6 September 2025
Violence, discrimination, and the failure to reform
There is growing disappointment and a sense of broken expectations among the people.
6 September 2025
Violence in Bangladesh’s RMG sector: Disposable lives, dispensable labour
Can we imagine and construct a political system that refuses to subordinate human dignity to the demands of global accumulation?
6 September 2025
The internet is making us reactionary, and it’s time to get off it
Social media often brings out the worst in people, with the anonymity of many platforms fuelling hostility towards strangers.
5 September 2025
The uneasy geometry of US-China-India-Russia relations
The SCO summit, held in Tianjin, China, was crafted as a spectacle.
5 September 2025
Threatening to gang-rape is not just vile, it’s a crime
Threats of repeated sexual violence subtly aim to intimidate and exclude women from public participation spaces
5 September 2025
Why are we trying to make the election uncertain?
Those who are working to prevent the election should question themselves as to how the people will be empowered without one.
4 September 2025
Why boys are falling behind in the classroom
One significant factor is the relatively lower parental expectation for boys’ academic achievement, coupled with the higher economic expectation placed on them to contribute to family income.
4 September 2025
Strategic autonomy has become a survival necessity for Bangladesh
Looking across the indicators, Bangladesh scores only 2 out of 10 in economic diversification, when at least 7 is needed.
4 September 2025
Bangladesh needs better education infrastructure to prevent primary dropouts
Physical infrastructure is a major challenge in ensuring a safe and child-friendly learning environment.
4 September 2025
Evolving Myanmar situation calls for a new Rohingya policy
Should Bangladesh rethink its Rohingya policy and strategy?
4 September 2025
Provost to nightguard: Different faces, same disregard for women
The widespread unrest at Chittagong University and adjacent villages where students and villagers clashed with each other for the better part of a day, had begun with a nightguard assaulting a female student who had returned to her mess, reportedly at 11:00pm
3 September 2025