Across Indigenous and rural Bangalee communities in the country, traditional midwifery is gradually disappearing.

A recent Prothom Alo report on at least 325 retracted papers affiliated with researchers at Bangladeshi universities has attracted significant public attention, with indignation expressed at the state of Bangladesh’s scholarly enterprise.

The narrative of a success story about reaching near-universal enrolment and closing the gender gap in primary education in Bangladesh is quite justified, but the achievement itself is neither exceptional nor improbable, as is sometimes claimed.

Urban policies must be designed and implemented to effectively balance a city’s practical needs with genuine environmental conservation.

Consumers will often tolerate minor transactional delays, but they are unlikely to tolerate the lingering fear that their lives’ savings could be compromised in an instant.

That Bangladesh needs roads and reliable transportation for haor communities is beyond question. But such infrastructure must be designed around the pathway of the water rather than imposed across it.

It is unfortunate that we are seeing a culture where moral power is exercised arbitrarily, where accusation precedes evidence and power precedes procedure.

The very people who had stood shoulder to shoulder in July-August 2024, responding to the call of protesting students and refusing to compromise on their demands for rights and reform, now stand divided

As Bangladesh approached the second anniversary of the July uprising, Dhaka University (DU) authorities suspended three teachers and relieved four others of their academic and administrative responsibilities over various allegations.

In Bangladesh, we love democracy, cherish it and fight for it, but we have repeatedly failed to make it durable.

Bangladesh’s garment industry has transformed the country’s economy, but one part of that success rarely appears in export statistics. It is the unfortunate environmental costs borne by the country’s rivers.

Early in my research career, in a laboratory in Japan, I gave my supervisor a set of results I was proud of.

Two years have passed since those transformative days of the July Uprising.

Universities in Bangladesh, especially the public ones, are facing a new kind of crisis.

Every day, people mock others' pain, dismiss genuine suffering as weakness, or disguise cruelty as "banter." Indifference towards animal suffering may be another symptom of this growing lack of compassion.

The ecological need for such forests is documented, and existing projects from both the government and private sector in Dhaka give proof of capability. What is needed next is the institutional framework to connect them, monitor what they produce, and scale what works.

We need a new social contract in which political conflict remains, even intense conflict.

July’s demand for meritocracy cannot be satisfied by replacing one patronage network with another. If the BNP treats its electoral mandate as a licence to reward loyalists, it risks recreating the same broken social contract that turned frustrated achievers into political challengers.

For Bangladeshis, overseas travel is also evidentiary.

Every year, Bangladesh proudly celebrates its rising female literacy rate. On paper, we are a success story.