Despite the Salt sector’s scale and significance, the sector remains informal in nature.

For Bangladesh’s youth, traditional employment is no longer the sole horizon.

Women mostly manage water for their families, yet their voices are seldom reflected in policy.

Climate scientists warn of a time when winter will vanish from our season cycle by 2100.

Geo-economics is not just maps and borders; it is about understanding how geography turns into economic power, and how trade routes, coastlines, and neighbours shape what a country can become.

Bangladesh's survival hinges on how upstream countries manage shared waters.

Her reputation lies in ruins and her political career buried under a mountain of debris of self-righteous arrogance, misgovernance, and impunity

It has the potential to fundamentally reshape savings, deposits, and investments.

It is baffling how normalised we all are to child labour.

The signing of the concession agreement brings cautious optimism.

In recent weeks, organised Jewish mobs have unleashed violence across occupied Palestinian towns and villages in West Bank.

Access to clean public toilets is not only a basic human right, it also draws a distinction between a life of dignity versus one of humiliation.

Before I offer my perspective, it is important to first clarify where responsibility lies. The factory owners themselves are entirely responsible for the situation they now call harmful to the industry. For all the things involved, there is no one else to blame—not the workers, not the labour leaders, not the government, not any international organisation.

With the three main political players gearing up for elections, it appears that Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus has managed to placate all sides with the four-point referendum proposal.

The decision to hold Hasina accountable is not merely judicial but also personal.

Democracy here is mediated through identity, not ideology

Sadly, education is one area that political parties often fail to prioritise in their election manifestoes beyond, of course, routine and vague pledges.

Bangladesh is facing a growing fire crisis. Data from the Department of Fire Service and Civil Defence, compiled by Dataful, shows roughly 250,000 fires occurred nationwide between 1997 and 2018.

Emerging from the ruins of the war of independence in 1971 with a devastated economy, Bangladesh has gradually transformed into a vibrant lower-middle-income country.

The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) started on November 10, 2025 and will continue till November 21 in Belem, Brazil.