Bangladesh’s economy remains highly susceptible to price volatility in the international energy market.

Recently, the Police Headquarters issued a nationwide alert about possible militant attacks.

The widespread social acceptance of corporal punishment indicates how violence has become normalised in child-rearing.

Every day, thousands of trucks carry containers, raw materials, and export goods along the Dhaka-Chattogram highway, alongside rising passenger traffic.

Before speaking of what the flotilla is sailing towards, the world must first reckon with what it has chosen to normalise: Israeli occupation of 53 percent of Gaza. Its suffocating blockade controls every calorie that enters the strip.

Somewhere in Bangladesh, a power plant stands ready to run but sits idle anyway.

Last year, a legal controversy arose regarding “a Muslim wife’s approval to second marriage” flooding social media, creating confusion, uncertainty, and agitation among the netizens.

Bangladesh signed the US Reciprocal Trade Agreement on February 9, 2026, just three days before the national election.

The ongoing geopolitical tensions involving the US, Israel, and Iran have again exposed how vulnerable the international energy markets are to conflicts and strategic rivalries.

While Bangladesh aspires to become a world-class manufacturing hub, the country’s absolute and relative FDI performance continues to lag behind that of several regional peers, including Cambodia, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

However, a new agreement could involve greater scrutiny and more severe structural targets, thus leaving Bangladesh with less flexibility for policymaking.

February, 2016. India was in turmoil. Across universities, protests erupted over the tragic suicide of Dalit student Rohith Vemula.

The fuel loading process at the first unit of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project is scheduled to commence today, April 28, in the presence of high-level representatives from Bangladesh, Russia, and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Bangladesh is on the brink of a major transformation in its power sector.

Every report of a child dying from the ongoing measles outbreak has left us not only saddened, but ashamed.

The footpaths of Dhaka have again become a political flashpoint of late.

The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) carries an uncomfortable message for Bangladesh.

According to the World Bank’s April 2026 Bangladesh Development Update, the country’s poverty rate increased to 21.4 percent in 2025 from 18.7 percent in 2022, adding 14 lakh more poor people in 2025.

About a month and a half has passed since the arrest and detention of leftist student leader Sheikh Tasnim Afroz Emi.

Moksuda Begum left Narayanganj with a dream and a promise. A widow raising her two children, Moksuda had been told she would earn Tk 22,000 a month as a domestic worker in Saudi Arabia.