As Bangladesh approached the second anniversary of the July uprising, Dhaka University (DU) authorities suspended three teachers and relieved four others of their academic and administrative responsibilities over various allegations.

In Bangladesh, we love democracy, cherish it and fight for it, but we have repeatedly failed to make it durable.

Bangladesh’s garment industry has transformed the country’s economy, but one part of that success rarely appears in export statistics. It is the unfortunate environmental costs borne by the country’s rivers.

Early in my research career, in a laboratory in Japan, I gave my supervisor a set of results I was proud of.

Two years have passed since those transformative days of the July Uprising.

Universities in Bangladesh, especially the public ones, are facing a new kind of crisis.

Every day, people mock others' pain, dismiss genuine suffering as weakness, or disguise cruelty as "banter." Indifference towards animal suffering may be another symptom of this growing lack of compassion.

The ecological need for such forests is documented, and existing projects from both the government and private sector in Dhaka give proof of capability. What is needed next is the institutional framework to connect them, monitor what they produce, and scale what works.

We need a new social contract in which political conflict remains, even intense conflict.

July’s demand for meritocracy cannot be satisfied by replacing one patronage network with another. If the BNP treats its electoral mandate as a licence to reward loyalists, it risks recreating the same broken social contract that turned frustrated achievers into political challengers.

For Bangladeshis, overseas travel is also evidentiary.

Every year, Bangladesh proudly celebrates its rising female literacy rate. On paper, we are a success story.

July 2024 is one of the pivotal moments in Bangladesh’s history. What started as a student-led protest demanding reform in the quota system for government jobs rapidly grew into a nationwide uprising, culminating in a change of government.

In 1829, blue uniforms were chosen for the first British metropolitan police, established by Sir Robert Peel, to distinguish them from the British military, whose uniforms were red.

Most of the obituaries praise Purja's feats in climbing while skipping past a chapter that, only two years ago, made international headlines: allegations that he had sexually assaulted two women.

How is a traditional teacher going to compete with the audiovisual stimulation today’s children receive from digital devices? And how to create a learning experience that technology alone can never provide?

In any civilised society, a historic reservoir such as Askar Dighi would have been protected as a public heritage asset. What can we do today?

Retaliation is not justice. A student union is not a mobile court. Its elected representatives are not police officers, prosecutors, or executioners.

Dredging creates navigation capacity, not logistics demand. Cargo moves because industries produce, farmers harvest, ports generate trade, and consumers create demand. Rivers merely provide one transport corridor within a much larger logistics ecosystem.

While global rates of communication disorders increase, Bangladesh faces a critical shortage, with only a few hundred qualified SLTs registered with the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Council (BRC). Into this gap comes artificial intelligence.