।। Saleemul Huq ।। The year 2022 was indeed a critical year for tackling climate change at global, national, and local levels. Let me start at the personal level by acknowledging two major e... Read more
।। Anu Muhammad ।। The year 2022 brought with it some big challenges for the majority of people in Bangladesh. The cost of living increased, and prices of oil, gas and electricity went up. E... Read more
।। Eresh Omar Jamal ।। When the Awami League came to power in 2009, the amount of defaulted loans stood at Tk 22,481 crore. During its tenure in the government, that amount increased to a ma... Read more
।। Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan ।। Certain incidents in recent times, and of the past, have brought to mind that old proverb, ‘look before you leap’. The first event concerns the c... Read more
।। Shekhar R Biswas ।। A series of recent media reports – about the proposal to hand over chunks of a reserve forest to different non-forestry departments, the removal of old trees from seve... Read more
।। Badiul Alam Majumdar ।। A couple of weeks ago, our prime minister talked about protecting Bangladesh from a possible famine in the coming days. More recently, her power and mineral resour... Read more
।। Eresh Omar Jamal ।। On October 5, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other oil-producing countries, including Russia, agreed to cut their oil production by t... Read more
।। Aasha Mehreen Amin ।। A few days ago, I woke up to a disturbing message from a friend who had migrated to the US, “You should really work on getting a second passport for all three... Read more
।। Mohammad Shamsudduha ।। The year-round availability of groundwater resources has played a vital role over the past few decades in providing water for drinking and irrigation in Bangladesh... Read more
।। Saleemul Huq ।। Over the last 50 years, Bangladesh has been recognised in South Asia as well as around the world as a laboratory for development success in alleviating poverty, girls... Read more
।। Sohrab Hassan ।। According to a report appearing in the Daily Star on 11 August, Bangladesh Bank is relaxing the foreign exchange regulations in order to increase the flow of foreign curr... Read more
।। Brig Gen Shahedul Anam Khan ndc, psc (Retd)।। Strategic assets are those that demand attention from the highest levels of the state, and are subject to interstate competition. For the lea... Read more
।। Maung Zarni ।। Last Friday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations that deals with legal disputes among member states, dealt a blow t... Read more
।। John Rozario ।। Newspapers and news portals have been the most conventional and popular medium of conveying local, regional, national and international news to the readers. Newspaper serv... Read more
।। Shah Sabbir Alom ।। In the last three decades, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has followed a trajectory that deviated itself from its stated goal of liberating Assam from the... Read more
।। Amborish Bordoloi ।। Cinema has come a long way since its first commercial screening in an underground basement in Paris in 1895. At that time the creators, the Lumiere brothers, were con... Read more
।। Anisul Hoque ।। The sufferings of the people in the flood-hit areas are not over. From Kurigram to Sunamganj, from the west to the east of Bangladesh’s northern regions, thousands of peop... Read more
।। Anisul Hoque ।। The way things stand in Bangladesh, you just have to be a Bangali! It won’t do if, instead of being born to a Bangali family, you are born in a family of Santal, Ora... Read more
।। Mohammad Mahfuzur Rahman ।। It has been quite clear in various segments of society in Bangladesh that the solution to the Rohingya crisis is becoming a distant dream. The attitude of the... Read more
।। Kamal Ahmed ।। When Bangladesh needs to show that it has been listening to the concerns about respecting human rights and upholding the rule of law, it has done quite the opposite. The re... Read more
