Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s visit to China is an important milestone in Bangladesh’s foreign policy.

Four habits appear to have been defining budget-making in Bangladesh for decades, regardless of who headed the finance ministry.

Every year, the national budget contains some good initiatives.

As an education and development professional, I participated in a classroom observation once, following training on technology-enhanced English language teaching.

If you step out to the streets of Dhaka, you will see a far lower presence of women and girls compared to men.

Mohammad Sufiur Rahman, senior research fellow at the South Asian Institute of Policy and Governance in North South University and a former diplomat, speaks with Porimol Palma of The Daily Star about the outcomes of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s just-concluded visit to China.

The proposed national budget for FY2026-27 provides an indication of the newly elected government’s economic philosophy and development priorities.

In the proposed FY2026-27 national budget, the Government of Bangladesh has allocated Tk 69,409 crore to the health sector, out of a total budget of Tk 9.38 lakh crore.

Bangladesh does not necessarily need to invest more in university research. It needs to spend what it already has as if research were meant to generate tangible outcomes.

As someone who had the opportunity to stay back after completing further studies, I feel that portraying the issue of non-returning academics as a crisis of individual morality, rather than reflecting on the lack of institutional incentives that allow Bangladeshi scholars to opt for a different destiny, only tells half of the story.

Anti-Bangladesh rhetoric continues to emanate from influential quarters in West Bengal and across India’s political discourse, which has real consequences. It shapes how ordinary Indians perceive Bangladeshis and creates a climate in which hostility—at immigration counters and in public spaces—may become culturally normalised, making the stay of Bangladeshis anywhere in India fraught with anxiety and insecurity.

Deafblindness is a unique and complex condition involving varying degrees of combined vision and hearing loss.

When I look at the proposed education budget for FY-2026-27, I don’t first think about allocations or percentages of GDP.

The climate budget proposed for FY2026-2027 seems good on paper but, at the same time, confusing, and has missed some obvious opportunities.

Earlier this week, the death of a young man in police custody in Faridpur raised allegations of torture by agitated locals.

It is customary for politicians to campaign against the other side: the opposition speaks against the government and the government against the opposition.

The quality of budget implementation will determine whether investment is stimulated, inflation is reduced, and new jobs are created as planned.

Once a cost becomes unrecoverable, it does not disappear.

Bangladesh has nine months left on a treaty it cannot afford to lose, and no fallback plan if it does.

That such a commanding mandate could dissolve so completely and so quickly suggests the problem runs deeper than any one leader’s failures.