Much has been deliberated about and documented on the recruitment process of faculty members at our public universities. However, no substantive reforms have yet materialised in this area. Bangladesh boasts over 55 public universities, with approximately 16,000 dedicated educators engaged...
Bangladesh is witnessing remarkable growth and transformation in the digital sector, with its youth emerging as the stars of startups and online ventures. From e-commerce and freelancing to social commerce, digital entrepreneurship is becoming a powerful force shaping the nation's...
Neil Ray | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
The planned appointment of music and sports teachers to government primary schools has been cancelled. This decision has invited protests from different cultural organisations, educators, child rights activists and students of a number of universities. Apparently, the interim government has...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
Already ranked ninth globally for climate disaster risk, according to the World Risk Index 2023, Bangladesh, so far, seems to have resigned itself to its fate. Worse, it has been doing everything to make matters worse often in the name...
The latest Bangladesh Bank analysis of inflation may explain why a stable exchange rate has largely failed to translate into lower consumer prices and why a tight monetary policy has so far failed to bring inflation rate down to the...
Asad Islam and Ata Ullah | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
Can you imagine a home that feels like a jail? For more than a million Rohingya in the camps of Cox’s Bazar, barbed wire isn’t just a boundary — it’s a barrier to the future. For children here, eight years...
Nuzhat Fatima Purnota and Md Shanawez Hossain | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
The pride of Bengal, the Bay of Bengal, is not just a matter of global recognition for the people of Bangladesh, but also a gold mine of opportunities and regional cooperation. But how little do we do to utilise the...
Fahmida Khatun, Syed Yusuf Saadat, Afrin Mahbub and Zazeeba Waziha Saleh | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh has long maintained an impressive record of external debt servicing, standing out among least-developed countries for its fiscal discipline and strong export performance. For decades, the country has met its repayment obligations with relative ease, reflecting prudent financial management...
Mustafizur Rahman | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
The global trading regime facing Bangladesh’s export-oriented sectors is changing at a fast pace. The recently imposed Trump Reciprocal Tariffs and the likely implications of the Least Developed Country (LDC) graduation are two important considerations in this connection. However, yet...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
Following the exit of the caretaker regime after the holding of the 9th parliamentary election in December 2008, expectations ran high among the people in Bangladesh that the grand-alliance government led by Awami League (AL) would keep its pledge of ushering...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
In recent years populism has emerged as a powerful social and economic factor influencing politics, governance and policymaking across a broad swath of the world. Its appeal lies in a rhetorical division of society into ‘the people’ versus the ‘elite’...
Simon Mohsin | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
On a cold December night way back in 1993, moviegoers in New York and London shuffled out of theaters in silence. Many were in tears, clutching tissues, as the credits of Schindler’s List rolled against the haunting notes of a...
Mustafa K Mujeri | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
The widely accepted view is that the local government system brings the government’s decision making closer to the people. A strong local government can ensure good governance through transparency, accountability, effective participation and equal opportunities for all. Most importantly, the...
Serajul I. Bhuiyan | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
It is a sticky morning in Dhaka when a young entrepreneur goes to a government office, hoping to extend her trade licence. She employs twenty people, making local garments for export, and can double production effortlessly if it were easier....
Muhammad Zamir | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
In 1972, nearly 80 per cent of the country's population was living below the poverty line. Today, however, the country has made significant progress in all areas - social, economic, education, health and culture - as reflected in its fulfillment...
Sameera Mahmud | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh is currently experiencing a wave of crucial financial sector reforms, moving its banking system closer to global standards. The central bank, the Bangladesh Bank (BB), is spearheading a massive overhaul focussing on fixing bad loans, professionalising management, and preparing...
Rizwanul Islam | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
President Trump's trade war has upended the process of globalisation in a manner that has raised the question of whether it has any future. The backdrop to this is widespread discontent about its outcome that has spread from the developing...
Syed Abul Basher and Salim Rashid | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
Standard economic theory suggests that for developing countries far away from the fast-expanding technological frontiers, "catch-up growth" is the only viable option to secure long-run growth. According to this view, no matter how poor a country is, if it adopts...
M.G. Quibria and Barkat-e-Khuda | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
International migration from poorer to wealthier nations has long been a defining feature of the global economy. It is driven by the pursuit of higher incomes, better living standards, improved healthcare, and expanded educational opportunities. Like many countries in South...
Selim Jahan | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
The notion of democracy is traditionally interpreted and analysed in the political domain, in terms of democratic spaces, voice and autonomy of the people, political parties, people's participation, free and fair elections, existence of civil society, etc. Thus, the idea...
M A Taslim | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh signed an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for loans valued at US$4.7 billion under different programmes on January 30, 2023. These loans were to be given out in several tranches over 42 months. The total loan amount...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-11-09 12:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Nov 08: Unplanned excavation of fish ponds in fertile farmlands has emerged as a major threat to agriculture in Rajshahi region, as continuous rainfall triggered by a low-pressure system over the Bay of Bengal has left vast areas under...
The committee of Ward No. 33 unit of BNP in Mohammadpur, under Dhaka North City Corporation, has been suspended, reports BSS.The Dhaka North City unit of the party took the decision, stating that the committee will remain suspended until further...
Detective Branch (DB) of police has arrested three leaders and activists of the banned Awami League (AL), and its affiliates in separate drives across the capital in the last 24 hours, reports BSS.They were detained on charges of bringing out...
BNP has stood by a newborn girl, abandoned at the pediatric ward of Dinajpur Medical College Hospital by an unidentified couple in their 50s with a note describing them as ‘victim of circumstance’, reports BSS.A BNP statement said on Saturday...
Attorney General (AG) Md Asaduzzaman has urged Bangladesh's political parties to make a clear and firm public commitment to enacting a strong and effective anti-discrimination act, saying such a commitment should be a prerequisite to gaining public confidence and votes,...
Chief Justice (CJ) Syed Refaat Ahmed has said no reformer can be truly wise without a deep understanding of history, and no judge can properly interpret law without appreciating the roots of his civilisation, reports BSS. He said this while...
Moving into the election mode, the Election Commission is set to begin a series of dialogues with registered political parties this week to lay the groundwork for the upcoming national election scheduled for February, reports UNB.However, due to time constraints...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-09 00:00:00
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has expressed on Saturday its willingness to sit with BNP for discussion on referendum issue.Assistant secretary general of Jamaat AHM Hamidur Rahman Azad revealed it at a dialogue held at a city hotel on Saturday.Jamaat-e-Islami wants referendum to...
BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has cautioned that the recent actions of certain political parties, which once marched alongside the anti-fascist movement, may now be creating a situation that undermines the rights and opportunities of people, reports UNB.Virtually addressing the...
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