We need energy security, not just a fix for the current crisis

The global economy is facing an energy crisis due to supply disruptions amid the war in West Asia. Since energy, vital to economic security, has also become a key part of geopolitics, countries have become more vulnerable to energy shocks.
25 August 2026

How AI is changing the pharmaceuticals landscape

Personalised medicine is a new frontier in healthcare management, and AI impacts this field tremendously.
24 August 2026

Why Bangladesh's entrepreneurs keep following the same path

Last year, at the invitation of Shomaj o Poribesh Rokkha Shongothan, I met 26 entrepreneurs in Meherpur, 21 of whom were women.
24 August 2026

Extremism grows when faith, knowledge, and humanity fall out of balance

In Bangladesh, whenever militancy is discussed, attention usually turns to the details of specific incidents: where an attack occurred, who was arrested, which organisation was involved, or how many young people were drawn into extremist networks.
24 August 2026

Rohingya settlement: A ‘town’ we still call a camp

This August 25 marks the ninth anniversary of the 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar that subsequently forced more than 700,000 Rohingya to flee into Bangladesh.
24 August 2026

The case for recognising women’s matrimonial property rights

Women’s equitable interests in matrimonial property can be secured.
23 August 2026

The eighth front: How Israel plans to occupy the American mind

The transformation of how raw news reaches the public has opened Netanyahu’s “eighth front.”
23 August 2026

Shipbreaking need not be deadly, but weak enforcement is making it so

Shipbreaking industry accident records suggest the industry treats its labour as expendable.
23 August 2026

Why our ports need a sustainability scorecard

Bangladesh is investing heavily in ports, with private operators increasingly entering the sector.
23 August 2026

Dhaka must learn to care for its trees

On August 10, a tree fell in the capital’s Dhanmondi area, damaging three parked cars. Fortunately, no one was hurt. But this is not the first time a tree has fallen in the area.
22 August 2026

‘Business as usual is not an option in resolving the Rohingya crisis’

The overall number of refugees has increased, while funding, which used to be relatively healthy before, has declined.
22 August 2026

Personal preferences should not become public restrictions

Death could not seal the controversies for Jason Arday.
22 August 2026

Upskilling workers can expand Bangladesh's remittance dividend

In its demographic transition, Bangladesh has reached a stage where its working-age population exceeds its dependent population in size—a phenomenon known as the demographic dividend.
22 August 2026

Better infrastructure, not another authority, can unlock our carbon economy

Every time Bangladesh’s carbon opportunity comes up for discussion, the conversation usually centres on the same proposal of creating a new authority.
21 August 2026

Time to honour the entrepreneurs who built modern Bangladesh

Bangladesh rightly honours its intellectual giants. National professors such as Abdur Razzaq and Dewan Mohammad Azraf are remembered for shaping generations of minds.
21 August 2026

What Bangladesh's golden fibre needs to become a climate-era export

Bangladesh has spent five decades protecting the reputation of one raw commodity: our golden fibre, jute.
21 August 2026

Expectations from BNP’s next secretary general

Congratulations to Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir for being elected president of Bangladesh. We believe he will restore to the post much of the dignity that was eroded by the former one.
21 August 2026

Are we ready for a ‘post-American’ West Asia?

Changes in Gulf security can quickly reach Bangladeshi households through remittances, employment, energy prices, shipping costs, and inflation.
20 August 2026

We need to rethink how political parties are funded

A significant yet mostly avoided question in Bangladeshi politics is who is paying for it and what they are gaining from doing so.
20 August 2026

Green certification alone cannot guarantee safe ship recycling

The tragedy met by nine workers inside an LNG carrier at the Ferdous Steel Ship Recycling Industries in Chattogram’s Sitakunda on August 14 has, once again, raised concerns about the effectiveness of the safety, compliance, and certification system in our ship recycling sector.
20 August 2026