Sibbir Ahmad

Every government since 1990 has learned the same lesson the hard way: promising jobs is easy, creating them is not. In its 2026 election manifesto, BNP had pledged to create one crore jobs for educated youth within 18 months of taking office.

Shipbreaking industry accident records suggest the industry treats its labour as expendable.

In 1976, Ziaur Rahman, then Chief Martial Law Administrator, established the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) by ordinance, bringing fuel marketing and distribution under one state roof.

Dr Yunus’s initiative in UNGA achieved much more than diplomatic optics.

When fascism falls, its institutions may crumble, but its ghosts linger.

There is a simple fix to this problem. We can easily allow students who have failed in one or two subjects to begin college studies on a conditional basis.

July 14 will be remembered not just as the day students were insulted, but as the night they stopped being afraid.

In Bangladesh, authoritarianism began with a knock on a dorm room door.