Can MUN Alert help bring missing children home safely?
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When can political rivals in Bangladesh safely distrust each other?
7 September 2026
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Ninth pay scale: A salary hike alone won't curb corruption in public service
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Opinion
Bangladesh’s ‘Tesla’ crisis is really a crisis of regulation
6 September 2026
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Laldia can handle bigger ships, but can the inland network keep up?
7 September 2026
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Opinion
Our universities face a crisis bigger than graduate employability
6 September 2026
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The tea industry must turn higher prices into sustainable growth
6 September 2026
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Sifat’s arrest under anti-terror law: Vulgarity is not terrorism
6 September 2026
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Opinion
Nepal disaster: South Asia must unite to confront a shared climate threat
6 September 2026
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Opinion
The price of putting childhood on display on social media
5 September 2026
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Bangladesh needs life-centred education reform for students
Active learning, moral education, teamwork, and community engagement should be embedded across all subjects.
14 September 2025
Beyond the flames: Nepal’s search for a sovereign path
The Himalayas have always been a place of profound silence and deep truths.
14 September 2025
Navigating pre-election tensions: A plea for common sense
The trend of settling old scores about “who did what” decades ago should be seen as a distraction from the huge challenges facing any incoming government.
14 September 2025
We must professionalise our fight for stolen wealth
Money does not come home on press releases. It comes home case by case, with quiet diplomacy and implacable lawyering.
14 September 2025
My Ducsu voting experience: The good and the bad
The voting process was absolutely seamless.
13 September 2025
Badruddin Umar: A tribute to a genuine scholar and committed activist
Umar is and will be remembered today as a committed and uncompromising icon of the left.
13 September 2025
When campus politics takes the centre stage
The disproportionate attention given to student polls exposes the political vacuum created by the country's eroded electoral culture.
12 September 2025
Trial by fire
The Gen Z movement now has to unite to take the lead in reconstructing the Nepali state.
12 September 2025
Transparency alone won’t modernise Bangladesh’s power sector
One of the key measures in this year’s budget is the repeal of the Quick Enhancement of Electricity and Energy Supply (Special Provision) Act, 2010, to enhance transparency.
12 September 2025
Trees can be the cheapest anti-heat, anti-anger infrastructure
In Dhaka, trees are treated as expendable. They are cut down for road-widening with no plan for replacement.
12 September 2025
When the state fails the dead
The body of Nurul Haque was exhumed and set on fire by a mob.
12 September 2025
Nepal’s Gen Z revolt is a mirror Bangladesh should study hard
Nepal’s streets did not wake up one morning and decide to overthrow a government for sport.
12 September 2025
Ducsu election: Identity, strategy, and the politics
Those who won the Ducsu election on Tuesday have set a new precedent.
11 September 2025
The economic cost of delaying the election
The political vacuum that Bangladesh finds itself in is not just a constitutional or moral problem.
11 September 2025
Remembering Badruddin Umar: An inspiring scholar
He was a true scholar, a delightful conversationalist, and an uncompromising social activist.
11 September 2025
Returning after 33 years, what difference will Jucsu make?
Jucsu is expected to break a 33-year-long silence at Jahangirnagar University.
10 September 2025
The job no one claps for
Women’s unpaid household and care work sustains the nation, yet remains invisible
10 September 2025
Between death and desire to live: A suicide survivor’s account
Sometimes survival is the most radical act we can perform.
10 September 2025
Digital wages can unlock women’s economic power in Bangladesh
Among account owners, women’s adoption of digital payments lags behind men’s across the region by 15 percentage points.
10 September 2025
Inflation and inequality fuelling a geography of despair in Bangladesh
An economy cannot thrive on the optimism of a few while the majority remain weighed down by despair.
10 September 2025