What Islami Bank’s RDS figures reveal…and what they do not

Sticks, carrots, and churning outrage

The public trial of Nur Jahan Begum’s three children was swift and entirely beside the point. Within hours of police discovering the 75-year-old teacher’s body in a squalid Mirpur flat—where ...

Walls that sing: Graffiti and music in Bangladesh's Long July Revolution

They knew where it would hurt the most….

Top Bangladeshi trekking host arrested in Nepal after Malaysian tourist alleges secret filming

Anti-Gambling Bill could restore sweeping state powers through a new legal route

Tofael Ahmed probably outlived his mistakes…but what legacy he truly had left?

Climate change is no longer a distant threat; it is a present reality. Rising temperatures, polluted air and water, degraded soils, and shrinking ecosystems are exacting an increasingly heavy toll on ...

Bangladesh’s welfare policy shifting faces a fiscal reality check

My ordeal with extortion as a cattle trader

Why public execution is no cure for structural violence

Renaming RAB won’t end Bangladesh’s culture of impunity

In Bangladesh, knowledge is never neutral

The Awami League’s unmaking of Rabindranath Tagore in Bangladesh

Interview

David Bergman unfiltered: Reporting truth from Bangladesh’s toughest stories

Since mid-April 2015, David Bergman hasn’t changed his Facebook profile picture. For the past eleven ...

Rights defenders from Ukraine raise alarm over ‘deceitful’ Russian recruitment of Bangladeshis to fight their war

A conversation with Tarique Rahman in a time of reckoning…

Young student leaders fight against the odds to turn the tides in the upcoming DUCSU poll

Top BNP leader believes blocking party chiefs from becoming Prime Minister is “undemocratic”

Prominent young IG Advisor rejects future of Pro-India or Pro-Pakistan politics in Bangladesh

World-renowned human rights workers document "clear" evidence of police brutalities in July Uprising

Analysis

How the tax trap is keeping cigarettes cheap in Bangladesh

Bangladesh has spent years raising cigarette taxes while somehow keeping cigarettes cheap. This contradiction sits at the center of one of the country’s most persistent public-policy failures. Every budget season brings ...

How Muslims lost electoral leverage in India

Data, policy or procurement: What went wrong in Bangladesh’s measles outbreak?

Why the world’s best intelligence agencies fail in Iran

Making a sense of Bangladesh’s ‘Hadi effect’

Understanding the BNP’s quiet repositioning in Bangladesh’s political center..

In Delhi, Putin tests the world’s new multipolar reality

Life & Arts

Before travel influencers….there was Feluda

When I first visited Simla, early last January, a walk along the Mall Road produced ...

Roid's original sin

Inside Roid's endless, trance-like cycle

The haunting, circular beauty of Roid

The sound of a culture unable to burn

Before 21st century’s climate grief….there was Bhibhutibhusan’s Aranyak

Diplomacy à la Carte

News

Roundtable discussion calls for cancellation of US-Bangladesh trade agreement

UN steps in on Bangladesh-India Border Crisis; 21 stranded women and children returned after appeal by opposition MP

BSIA roadshow draws global Bangladeshi chip leaders to Arizona as Bangladesh pushes semiconductor ambitions

Bangladesh’s floating schools win global recognition as Sidhulai receives UNESCO Confucius Literacy Prize 2025

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