Nepal’s claim for climate compensation and why it matters for us
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Bangladesh’s climate pledges need political ownership
3 September 2026
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Opinion
Ninth pay scale / Govt jobs are getting better, but what about the private sector?
3 September 2026
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Opinion
A cautionary tale from Louisiana for the Padma barrage
2 September 2026
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Opinion
We take lab reports on trust. How can we make them more reliable?
2 September 2026
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Tarique Rahman’s India visit and the end of automatic deference
1 September 2026
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What Nepal’s devastating floods teach us about climate vulnerability
2 September 2026
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The Rohingya need a unified strategy, not piecemeal efforts
2 September 2026
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Weighing Bangladesh's options in the Mecca treaty
1 September 2026
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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