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Realtors rue their woes largely for paradigm shift in policy

2025-09-30 00:00:00

THE BUILDERS OF BANGLADESH

Realtors rue their woes stemming from rising pressure on the property business of late for a combination of policy shifts and regulatory uncertainties. One major...

Land scarcity makes housing property costlier

2025-09-30 00:00:00

THE BUILDERS OF BANGLADESH

Dhaka's skyline tells a powerful story of ambition and urban growth. Arrays of high-rises stretch across the horizon-some with gleaming glass facades, others with simple...

Walton: The leading manufacturer of commercial air conditioners in Bangladesh

2025-09-30 00:00:00

THE BUILDERS OF BANGLADESH

Walton has established itself as a strong player in Bangladesh’s commercial air conditioner (AC) market and is expanding internationally. Their local manufacturing strength and continuous...

MAX Group: Four decades of dedication and capacity building

2025-09-30 00:00:00

THE BUILDERS OF BANGLADESH

MAX Group is one of Bangladesh's leading multidisciplinary infrastructure development conglomerates, with a journey spanning over four decades. Since its establishment in 1984, the Group...

Why are so many young people having heart attacks?

2025-09-29 00:00:00

WORLD HEART DAY 2025

It is a scene that has become unsettlingly common in Bangladesh. A young professional, barely in his late thirties, collapses at his office desk. A...

'Don't Miss a Beat'

2025-09-29 00:00:00

WORLD HEART DAY 2025

One in five people will die early from cardiovascular disease (CVD), which claims more lives than cancer and chronic respiratory diseases combined. Yet, up to...

Challenges, opportunities, way forward in shipping & logistics

2025-09-03 12:00:00

SUPPLEMENT ON LOGISTICS

Bangladesh's rapid economic growth, robust industrial expansion, and increasing global trade integration have created an urgent need for an efficient and modern logistics sector. Despite...

Battle against mosquitoes: nature's tiny survivors

2025-08-20 00:00:00

WORLD MOSQUITO DAY 2025

Have you ever realised how our battle against mosquitoes has escalated from a simple spray across the room to a range of medicated nets, plug-ins,...

A day to raise awareness about the dangers posed by mosquito-borne diseases

2025-08-20 00:00:00

WORLD MOSQUITO DAY 2025

Mosquito-borne diseases kill more than one million people and infect up to 700 million each year - almost one in ten people. 128 years ago,...

Hopes and happenings

2025-08-10 00:00:00

RENEWABLE ENERGY

Seventeen years after its first renewable energy framework done, Bangladesh has launched the Renewable Energy Policy 2025, aiming to generate 20 per cent of total...

BD renewable ambitions face crosswinds

2025-08-10 00:00:00

RENEWABLE ENERGY

As of July, 2025, Bangladesh's installed solar energy capacity reached 1,307.15 megawatts (MW), up from 949.65 MW in June 2023-a 38 per cent increase in...

How to avoid the disaster lurking in the corner

2025-08-10 00:00:00

RENEWABLE ENERGY

The growing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sector in Bangladesh is facing numerous challenges, especially the illegal cross-filling due to lack of monitoring and awareness.Cross-filling, which...

Upgrading BD's energy infrastructure

2025-08-10 00:00:00

RENEWABLE ENERGY

Imagine this: your lights never flicker, your industrial machinery runs without interruption, and voltage stays perfectly within safe limits. If you care about climate, you...

Fueling a cleaner, greener future in rural Bangladesh

2025-08-10 00:00:00

RENEWABLE ENERGY

Bangladesh is faced with two closely-related rural challenges: the growing demand for domestic energy and the growing load of organic waste. For a country as...

How the uprising exposes media fault lines

2025-08-05 12:00:00

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT ON JULY UPRISING

The role of mainstream news and broadcast media during the pro-democracy July-August uprising in 2024 remains a widely discussed and debated subject across all levels...

A deluge that drowns a dynasty

2025-08-05 00:00:00

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT ON JULY UPRISING

It began not with a bang, but with the whispers of rain on Dhaka’s concrete skin. The froth of human wrath soon keeps rolling on...