Kallol Mustafa

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

Regular deaths on the highways of Bangladesh have become quite a "normal" thing.

The fact that a fair and impartial election is not possible under the ruling party’s government has become clear once again.

In Bangladesh, 2023 was the year of inflation.

An election without any competition will not be acceptable at home or abroad.

Illegal and indiscriminate sand extraction from the rivers is increasing at an alarming rate, with the backing of ruling party politicians, causing massive erosion of riverbanks and destruction of rural settlements and farmlands.

Why must the locals pay the price of projects supposedly being developed for the economic prosperity of the country?

How acceptable is this minimum wage of Tk 12,500?

Manipulation of potato prices is not new in Bangladesh.

These cases of illegal property purchase abroad are not the main acts of corruption – these are the symptoms.

It is not enough to plan and build expensive flyovers, expressways, metro rail or BRT.

Unlike public sector retirees, private sector employees do not get pensions

How can a factory owner not be involved in the irregularities of design and installation of fire safety systems?

This mechanism of hiking prices is not new.