Bangladesh’s gold paradox: From a shadow market to an export industry
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Anu Muhammad speaks / Why Bangladesh’s energy crisis keeps coming back
19 September 2026
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The $5 billion opportunity Bangladesh is failing to see
18 September 2026
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How Bangladesh is failing its Qawmi graduates
17 September 2026
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Why is water-rich Bangladesh running short of water?
16 September 2026
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Bangladesh's education crisis: The future has already begun
14 September 2026
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The global injustice behind Bangladesh’s shipbreaking industry
13 September 2026
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How to make essential medicines affordable and accessible in Bangladesh
12 September 2026
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Can Bangladesh make its plastic waste policy work?
10 September 2026
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Dhaka accidentally built the city planners now want. Can we make it liveable?
9 September 2026
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Towards a 'just transition' in the labour market: Rights, gender and environment
The labour market worldwide is going through major transformations driven by climate change.
15 January 2026
From siltation to toxic pollution: Coastal water problems
The rivers and canals of Bangladesh are being made to die. Bangladesh is a country of water, where land and water are entwined and ever shifting.
15 January 2026
Gender violence and Bangladesh's future
Gender-based violence (GBV) remains prevalent and significant in Bangladesh, deeply rooted in our patriarchal norms, despite notable progress in overall economic and political participation over the decades since our liberation.
15 January 2026
Princess’s journey and the promise of skilled migration
When I first met Princess, she was sitting cross-legged on the floor of a tiny concrete room in Davao City on Mindanao island in southern Philippines, her notebook open to a page covered in neat rows of Japanese hiragana.
15 January 2026
Can the Barind Tract survive its own agricultural success?
Stand in the middle of the High Barind in late April, and you are standing on one of the most geologically distinct surfaces in Bangladesh.
15 January 2026
National sovereignty in the climatic age
In the recent reform efforts initiated by the interim government, significant attention has been paid to elections, electoral politics, and fundamental rights, yet a critical question remains largely unaddressed:
15 January 2026
Our 'demographic dividend' at risk: Help the NEET generation urgently
When Rina finished secondary school in a small town near Khulna, she expected her education would open doors. It did not.
15 January 2026
Key challenges to attaining the first demographic dividend
The demographic dividend is the accelerated economic growth resulting from declines in fertility and mortality and the subsequent change in the age structure of a country’s population.
15 January 2026
Rural lives on the move: Why Bangladesh must rethink rural–urban migration
Since independence, rural–urban migration has shaped the socioeconomic landscape of Bangladesh.
15 January 2026
Ten tasks for future Bangladesh
Bangladesh has turned a page in its political history and a new phase of political governments is about to start.
15 January 2026
Managing water is like managing life: Time to rethink urgently
The popular notion has been that we have surplus water. But Bangladesh presents a paradoxical situation.
15 January 2026
The age of billionaires and the future global political order
If neofeudal capitalism continues its expansion, the question is not whether democracies will survive, but what kind of political order they will transform into.
14 January 2026
Why Bangladesh needs a coherent maritime policy
Strategically positioned along the northern edge of the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh exercises jurisdiction over roughly 118,813 square kilometres of maritime space.
10 January 2026
Why Bangladesh's veterinarians matter more than we think
Strengthening the veterinary sector is not a technocratic afterthought; it is a strategic imperative.
7 January 2026
Why mob violence is rising across South Asia
In South Asia, the mob has evolved into a calculated tool for political mobilisation and social policing.
5 January 2026
Why the Ganges Treaty and shared rivers demand a new imagination
Teesta has led to the collapse of traditional livelihoods in fishing and agriculture.
2 January 2026
Breathing death: What Bangladesh must do to tackle air pollution
One widespread belief is that the worst air is outdoors, and that by staying inside, individuals can avoid its harms.
26 December 2025
The Narsingdi earthquake shook us—are we listening?
The entire Indo-Burma Ranges are being squeezed, potentially building stress on the megathrust that will be released in a large earthquake.
19 December 2025
Saint Martin’s Island is dying — Can we still save it?
A landscape where the natural defences that once protected the island are now dismantled.
13 December 2025
Separate Supreme Court secretariat: A welcome step, but the hard work begins now
Historic move expected to reshape court governance and restore public trust in justice delivery.
11 December 2025