VERY morning, millions of us open our phones before getting out of bed. We swipe through reels, clips and headlines. Increasingly those feeds begin at a front line: a missile strike caught on a phone camera, a live-stream from families fleeing, a helmet-cam from aid workers during a rescue.
FARMERS face a reckoning with water. For decades, the whir of shallow and deep tube wells has defined the countryside, driving the expansion of boro rice and reshaping the irrigation landscape. But as water tables fall, pumping costs increase and climate change delivers more erratic rains.
CORPORATE social responsibility in Bangladesh today is a multifaceted and uneven phenomenon. It is well-established and highly institutionalised in certain prominent sectors, particularly the export-oriented ready-made garments and formal financial sectors, while remaining nascent or largely symbolic in many local and informal industries.
IN 2015, Bangladesh adopted the National Nutrition Policy with the vision of 鈥榠mproving the nutritional status of the people of Bangladesh, particularly women and children, with special emphasis on equity and human rights.鈥�
SRI Lanka has reasons to be satisfied with the response it is receiving from the international community. Three international monitoring bodies have chosen to give the government good reports. The first was the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance based in Sweden. Its Global State of Democracy Index for 2025 saw Sri Lanka jump 15 places since...
THE years following Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 return to power in 2009 marked not merely a political shift but the construction of an entirely new order. What appeared at first as a democratic mandate soon revealed itself as a project of consolidation 鈥� an appropriation of state institutions into the service of dynastic authority. Bureaucracy and the armed forces, traditionally...
THE much-touted emergency summit in Doha of leaders of Arab-Islamic countries ended with a whimper. The joint statement is strong on rhetoric but weak on concrete action...
WHEN the nation鈥檚 anti-graft watchdog itself becomes synonymous with corruption, the damage goes far beyond individual scandals 鈥� it strikes at the moral core of accountability in Bangladesh. As 抖阴精品 reported on September 14, 2025, the Anti-Corruption Commission has disciplined 244 of its own officials over the past 17 years for taking bribes, extorting...
THE sudden fall of the former government led by the Bangladesh Awami League for around 16 years due to the July 2024 mass uprising launched by the students, along with political parties and civilians, has given rise to multiple narratives and...
HER fall in March 1996 was quiet, almost unsettling in its stillness. No gunfire. No soldiers on the streets. Just a resignation letter 鈥� signed in haste, carried through corridors heavy with history. Khaleda Zia walked away from power without the...
SHE is the glue that holds the house together, knowing every corner, every condiment, every detail of her child鈥檚 school or her husband鈥檚 work. Yet when it comes to finances, does she know? This is the unasked question in many Bangladeshi households. Women can manage...
THE state of secondary education has for long stood at the uneasy crossing of ambition and neglect. Since independence, the number of secondary institutions has expanded manifold and waves of nationalisation were carried out with the stated aim of...
LAST week鈥檚 failed assassination attempt of the Palestinian negotiating team in Doha, Qatar, raises critical questions that extend far beyond the attack itself. The crux of the problem lies in three interconnected issues: the increasing use of artificial intelligence in targeting individuals, the failure or deliberate negligence of the US-led air defence system, and Qatar鈥檚 vulnerable position as a host to both a major US base and the ceasefire negotiations...
THERE are storms you sail into. And there are storms you spend a lifetime watching from the shore 鈥� knowing full well that the sea doesn鈥檛 care whether you鈥檙e a sailor or a spectator. I chose the Navy in 1986, not because I was drawn to the romance of ships or the poetry of the horizon, but because I needed order. Discipline. A world where loyalty was not a transaction...
BENEATH the rolling waves of the Bay of Bengal lies an untapped fortune, a future Bangladesh has barely begun to claim. As fertile land shrinks under the pressure of climate change, the country must see the Bay not merely as coastline but as lifeline. Its waters hold the capacity to feed 170 million people, drive sustainable growth, and build resilience against...
