The government’s decision in April to channel public university research funding through the University Grants Commission (UGC) has since triggered an intense debate.

After our Liberation War, we started off with the parliamentary system of government. Then Bangabandhu himself betrayed that vision and that of multiparty democracy by instituting BAKSAL, a one-party system, and introducing the presidential model of government.

History has endowed our family of nations with shared language, legal traditions, institutional similarities, and diaspora networks that make commerce easier and cheaper.

Dhaka University is considering an important reform: introducing separate Science Unit (Ka unit) question sets for Bangla-medium and English-medium applicants so that each group is assessed in a way that better reflects its curriculum.

My first concern is that Home Economics itself has traditionally been treated as a highly gendered subject.

When more than 10,000 young Indians marched from Jantar Mantar to the parliament in New Delhi on Monday—responding to a call by the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) movement—police launched a crackdown on them with tear gas and batons, allegedly injuring about 150 protesters and detaining many others.

On June 7, a special court sentenced Sohel Rana, the prime accused, and his wife Swapna Khatun (who helped him escape) to death for the rape and murder of eight-year-old Ramisa Akter.

When a bank loses money through bad financing, lending too much to a few connected borrowers, or fails to recover even normal loans, someone has to bear that loss. And, as per the mudarabah principle, customers would primarily bear that loss, with a few exceptions.

Recently, parliament introduced new provisions to bring technology-driven narcotics offences under the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Bill 2026, under which even the maximum punishment—the death penalty—could be meted out for illegal drug trade conducted through cyberspace.

Dhaka recently ranked as the world’s third least liveable city in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Global Liveability Index 2026, for the second consecutive year.

An international airport is more than a transport terminal; it is the first demonstration of how a country organises itself.

The introduction of SWAp transformed Bangladesh’s health sector from a fragmented collection of donor-funded projects into a coordinated, government-led programme.

A country cannot end a harm it does not measure.

When a mother brings her child for vaccination, she rarely thinks about the science behind the vial of vaccine or the regulatory checks completed long before that moment.

Every once in a while, a document comes along that forces us to rethink the boundaries of what we believe is possible.

The formation of a national committee on the Rohingya crisis, headed by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, is an important political signal.

The Appellate Division’s July 9 order upholding the High Court’s partial invalidation of the 15th Amendment is a constitutional correction of enormous consequence.

We must stop asking what persons with disabilities cannot do and start recognising everything they can.

Using technology and extensive police power to prevent gambling in Bangladesh should never come at the cost of our constitutional rights.

Growth cannot be declared or budgeted into existence; it must be earned through credibility, investment, productivity, and institutional change.