The bitter arithmetic of Bangladesh’s consumption tax

Why a man between two flags deserves a film….

A modern state can identify its citizens and monitor its frontiers. It can also track movement across countries and continents. Yet sometimes it cannot decide what to do with a ...

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

The recent visit of Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan to Dhaka has injected fresh momentum into Bangladesh’s defense scene. The institutionalization of "Two-Plus-Two" dialogues and the planned formation of joint ministerial ...

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

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?

My ordeal with extortion as a cattle trader

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

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

A review of Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC’s Rural Development Scheme (RDS) annual reports and lending data raises substantial questions about claims made by Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed in parliament that ...

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’

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

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

Noakhali police inspector accused of repeatedly raping 12-year-old girl

Prof. Muhammad Mahboob Ali shines at International Higher Education Conference 2026

Bangladesh strengthens civil service capacity for ethical AI governance

Protest rally and torch march held at Dhaka University over alleged desecration of Hindu religious symbols

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