The alliance suggests that ideological clarity was always negotiable.

Bangladesh is moving steadily towards a cashless economy.

The question is not only who attacked our cultural spaces in 2025, but what kind of responses followed.

The outlook for FY2026 indicates a modest recovery, although some risks remain.

Games evolve, just as generations do.

Fear seeps into markets, schools, offices, and homes.

The ghost of the past regulatory regime should not overshadow present progress.

The ongoing debate over seaport reforms in Bangladesh is largely centred on the long-term leasing of terminals to foreign operators to modernise port infrastructure.

The National Citizen Party (NCP) was born with a claim that it would not practise politics as usual.

The English daily contributed to exposing Hasina's tyranny and corruption.

In India, saffron extremists and propaganda machines have found Bangladesh to be a convenient punching bag.

If the national election does take place in February, a new government will face dire quandaries for the economy.

 At 2pm on a sweltering April day in a small workshop in rural Mymensingh, a welding machine goes silent.

Tarique Rahman’s return to Bangladesh after 17 years in exile has been greeted with a scale of emotion that is understandable. There were crowds, chants, tears, symbolism layered upon symbolism.

Bangladesh has long depended on quiet, steady forces that make good choices feel natural: teachers who turn study into habit, newspapers that promotes tolerance, and cultural bodies that rehearse pluralism in public life.

The combination of soaring natural gas demand and plummeting domestic production has pushed the Bangladesh government to diversify its energy sources. In the past, various plans, including the Integrated Energy and Power Master Plan 2023,

BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman’s return to Bangladesh marks a new chapter in his political life—a new innings that also reflects a broader transition towards second-generation leadership in national politics.

By now, we all know that February 12 is election day, and BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman’s return after 17 years in exile has added December 25 as another date to remember.

Bangladeshi women are very good with money. We stretch it, ration it, rescue households with it, and somehow still manage to make ends meet when the arithmetic refuses to cooperate.

In the early hours of December 19, horrific attacks were carried out on Prothom Alo and The Daily Star, and later on two cultural organisations, Chhayanaut and Udichi, along with Nalonda School.