Bangladeshi passports are ranked among the weakest in the world.
The challenge for us is to retain quality in a system with resistance.
The real issue here is power and control over women’s bodies and space.
To bring back confidence, the rule of law must be established.
To make the imported inspiration sustainable, we need to create an ecosystem for our players.
The Rohingya refugees in the Cox’s Bazar camps are about to face a situation worse than they have been enduring.
In 2023, there was a 48 percent spike in the number of outgoing Bangladeshi patients compared to the previous year.
The new kids on the political block have a name: the National Citizen Party (NCP)
The idea of dedicating a day to promote harmony and peaceful coexistence—a day that fosters diversity, justice, and understanding across borders, cultures, and beliefs—seems promising in theory.
There are lessons to be learnt from the way Dhaka became part of the intellectual map of the world.
We laugh, but deep down, there is a hidden admiration and approval for such deception. Is there any connection between our folkloric fascination with trickery and our public endorsement of such behaviour by our leaders?
Disenchanted students are now demanding the creation of a “Dhaka Central University” comprising the seven colleges.
These martyred students achieved more in the years that they lived than many of us would do in decades.
For the cynics, the absence of any Bangladeshi university among the top 800 institutions recently ranked by Times Higher Education World University Rankings (THEWUR) 2025 is unacceptable.
"The 2024 uprising as an opportunity to return to the original desires of the deprived and persecuted masses of 1971."
Shakib has been at the heart of our national pride. He also has been someone who has hurt our feelings.
Violence against doctors is an issue that is neither unique to our country nor recent.
An institutionalised mass wedding will replace one form of social regulation with another.
