Aside from posting, social media has become the go-to place for many to get their news, views and overall information, and for communicating them.
The Act, clearly, is a step in the wrong direction.
In February 2019, the central bank lowered the timeframe to three years from five years. And what has that achieved?
People really are struggling beyond any comprehension to get by—at least for you and me.
“What’s the point of this election?” Its winner has already been predetermined.
The mismatch highlighted by the IMF could indicate that capital flight in FY23 has increased even more.
With the national election still two weeks away, many national and international observers have already termed it as a farce or “staged election.”
The case against him and WikiLeaks is much more important for what it might entail for press freedom itself.
The war in Ukraine is, in reality, a proxy war being fought between the West and Russia. Unlike its portrayal in the Western media, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was neither unprovoked nor unpredictable.
Sri Lanka is known as the country of smiling people because of their friendliness. But recently, the island nation has been experiencing an explosion of pain and anger.
While Covid-19 captured the attention of the world for the last two years or more, another pandemic has been silently killing countless numbers of people around the world.
According to a recent report, due to the insistence of lawmakers, the government is going to repair religious establishments and build new bridges across the country at a cost of Tk 5,132 crore.
In a first-of-its-kind study, the Economic Relations Division (ERD) under the finance ministry found that around 1.6 million young people lost their jobs and about 20 million youths faced income loss due to the pandemic.
Over the years, experts have identified two major problems in Bangladesh’s banking sector.
When we ask the question, “Who should development benefit?”, the answer should be quite straightforward: “the people.” But in reality, that is not often the case.
In a recent report, the World Bank stated that better targeted social protection programmes and reallocation of existing transfers to the poorest segment of society could reduce poverty from 36 percent to 12 percent in Bangladesh.
Today marks 20 years of the 9/11 attacks on the US masterminded by Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and a bunch of “ragheads” (as angry racist US soldiers called them) sitting in some cave in Afghanistan, as per the West’s dubious official narrative of what transpired on this day.
Twenty-years after 9/11 and the invasion of Afghanistan by US and NATO forces, the US is on the cusp of withdrawing its forces from the proverbial “graveyard of empires”, with the US military claiming its withdrawal is more than 90 percent complete.