The United States has announced that it is suspending immigrant visa processing for Bangladeshis. Not forever, it insists.

The first lesson for many young people arriving in Dhaka, after leaving the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), is not learnt in a university lecture hall.

The Global Risks Report 2026, published by the World Economic Forum (WEF), presents some of the stark realities of the world today. 

As the 13th national election approaches, calls for building a “New Bangladesh” have once again taken centre stage in political campaigning.

Bangladesh is once again featured prominently in the latest Climate Risk Index (CRI), a report widely cited by global media, policymakers, and international funders to assess countries’ exposure to climate impacts.

As protests in Iran show signs of waning under the weight of an increasingly brutal crackdown, Iranian officials have claimed that at least 5,000 people, including around 500 security personnel, have been killed nationwide.

Women were at the forefront of the July 2024 uprising, but in the subsequently formed political structures, insecurity and social backlash gradually pushed them aside.

The spread of disinformation, rumour and misleading content on social media has become a critical challenge thes days, particularly ahead of the national election.

Economics is not a museum of immortal models. It is a diagnostic discipline whose tools must match the condition of the economy under examination.

On February 12, 2026, alongside the 13th parliamentary election, Bangladesh will also hold a referendum on the implementation of reforms proposed in the July National Charter.

Bangladesh is not unfamiliar with the image of women in power. In fact, two women have governed this country for nearly the entirety of its democratic era.

The road to Bangladesh’s next general election, due on February 12, could decide far more than who governs next. It could determine whether the country restores its democratic soul or slips further into polarisation.

There is a widespread fear across US campuses, businesses, and industries that the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and its rapid integration into all spheres of our lives will lead to job losses and a lifestyle where robots control our daily routines.

As the country moves towards what could be the most consequential election in decades, Dr Md Abdul Alim, election specialist and former member of the Electoral Reform Commission, spoke with Monorom Polok of The Daily Star about the Election Commission’s readiness, the referendum process, and overall preparation for the poll.

Bangladesh’s export economy now moves faster than its railways can carry it. Factories, ports and private logistics firms have modernised to meet global demand.

US presidents are not known for telling the truth. From Thomas Jefferson’s denial of a relationship with the enslaved Sally Hemings onwards, there has been no shortage of political distortions emanating from the Oval Office.

Bangladesh’s poverty rate declined from approximately half of the population in the 1990s to one-fifth by 2019.

Students need to read the public pulse.

In the 18th century, the “enclosure movement” swept across Europe. Powerful landlords fenced off common lands, pastures and forests that communities had used collectively for generations.

Somewhere between the headline and the comment section, Bangladeshi women were recently told a right had been snatched away.