Without proper oversight, even foreign operators fail to deliver.
Bangladesh needs a bureaucracy that serves its citizens with professionalism and integrity, not one driven by blind obedience.
One cannot demand the abolition of the entire commission just because of differences of opinion on a few issues.
Many changes and reforms are being discussed nowadays, but the reality of the workers has not changed at all.
High construction costs in our mega infrastructure projects raise concerns.
The interim government must prove that they are not a follower of the destructive development model of the past autocratic regime.
Some provisions of the DSA (and the CSA) have been included in the new Cyber Protection Ordinance.
Indian news outlets and social media platforms have been spreading various types of disinformation about the persecution of religious minorities in Bangladesh.
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
The red line crossed by the government while suppressing the quota reform movement with authoritarian aggression is completely different
This is not the first time that government propaganda efforts have been exposed by Meta/Facebook.
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.
