Kallol Mustafa
Kallol Mustafa is an engineer and writer who focuses on power, energy, environment and development economics. He can be reached at kallol_mustafa@yahoo.com
Kallol Mustafa is an engineer and writer who focuses on power, energy, environment and development economics. He can be reached at kallol_mustafa@yahoo.com
The Constitution Reform Commission should recommend reforms based on the opinions of various sections of the population.
It seems that the apprehension of Awami League's return is haunting the interim government, occasionally affecting its activities and decision-making.
According to the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), at least 623 people were victims of enforced disappearance in the country from 2009 to 2022.
Although efforts were made to hide Hasina regime's bad governance by gagging the media and free speech and using fake statistics of economic growth and various visible infrastructure development projects, her downfall could not be prevented. It is important to learn from the history of the Hasina regime so that such incidents can be prevented in the future.
Bangladesh will face intensified water shortage in its rivers if India goes ahead with constructing so many hydropower projects by building dams upstream of the Brahmaputra.
The killing of people by BSF on the Bangladesh-India border has not stopped.
One of the reasons why the country’s economy fell into a big crisis during the Hasina regime is the manipulation of statistics.
We can learn from Tunisia's experiences of success and failure in the path of democratic transition
If Bangladesh cannot get an equitable share of the water from upstream, the Teesta crisis will not be resolved.
Benazir's case shows that top police and Rab officials can abuse power for personal gains without any accountability.
It appears that the government is not interested in taking even the minimal responsibilities regarding the migrant workers.
With a parliament dominated by businessmen and their interests, who is going to hold them to account?
There is no justification for raising electricity prices four times a year
Even after half a century of independence, most of the working people in Bangladesh are far from enjoying fundamental workers' rights.
Bangladesh needs to take initiative to investigate migrant workers' deaths and ensure proper compensation from the destination countries.
The coal bed of Bangladesh differs from that of many other places in the world, where the water table is found usually below the coal bed, not above as in Bangladesh.
With all three pumps of the Ganges-Kobadak (GK) Irrigation Project out of order, hundreds of thousands of farmers are in a deep crisis.
It seems that the government is creating a new threat of the quality and price of refined fuel oil being manipulated by permitting private companies to import and refine crude oil