
Kallol Mustafa
Kallol Mustafa is an engineer and writer who focuses on power, energy, environment and development economics. He can be reached at [email protected]
Kallol Mustafa is an engineer and writer who focuses on power, energy, environment and development economics. He can be reached at [email protected]
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.
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
Despite thousands of crores of taka being invested in various infrastructure development projects in the railway sector, the crisis of Bangladesh Railway (BR) doesn’t seem to end.
One of the main reasons is non-compliance with Environmental, Social, and Quality (ESQ) standards