Whistleblower alleges Beximco-linked importer exploited regulatory loophole on children’s diarrhoea treatment

Delhi's Bangladesh problem is not Dhaka…it's Delhi

When Bangladesh’s newly elected Prime Minister, Tarique Rahman, took office earlier this year, there was a tentative hint that New Delhi and Dhaka might finally transcend the bitter recriminations that ...

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

They knew where it would hurt the most….

Customs investigators unable to account for thousands of tons of duty-free imports at prominent garment manufacturer

A budget to build a ‘European welfare state’ on a ‘South Asian tax base’

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

Investigation

BADC likely sidestepped key verification in Chinese fertilizer supplier inquiry

Projects and paper trails behind Orion Group’s “questionable” rise to power

Former CFO under fire over procurement scandals and financial irregularities at Biman Bangladesh Airlines

Why timeline, evidence raise doubts over murder cases against Asaduzzaman Noor

Fourteen months on, Dhaka’s transfer order lies dormant as controversial diplomat stays in Berlin

Azaz snubbed homegrown traffic plan, opted for high-cost Chinese project

Opinion

The July uprising’s silent majority…

Every revolution produces its own gatekeepers. The slogans change and the banners change, but sooner or later, someone arrives to explain to the people what their own struggle was really ...

Islamophobia without borders

Why a man between two flags deserves a film….

Ankara’s arms and Dhaka’s dilemma on the price of strategic autonomy

Sticks, carrots, and churning outrage

World Environment Day How can we stop choking our environment?

Bangladesh’s welfare policy shifting faces a fiscal reality check

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

The bitter arithmetic of Bangladesh’s consumption tax

A peculiar sort of intellectual paralysis often grips the debate over value-added tax (VAT) in developing economies, and Bangladesh is no exception. Commentators and policymakers routinely divide themselves into hostile camps, ...

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

How the tax trap is keeping cigarettes cheap in Bangladesh

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’

Life & Arts

Why Duane Michals’s beautiful fictions matter more than facts

For nearly two centuries, photography functioned under a Faustian pact. It promised the public an absolute, ...

Before travel influencers….there was Feluda

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

News

Bangladesh cultural activists demand 2% budget allocation for culture

BUBT launches national economics olympiad to boost financial literacy among youth

ICSB, Jagannath University sign pact to strengthen professional education, research

Bangladesh business forum backs FY2026-27 budget as blueprint for investment, jobs growth

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