Md Rakibul Hasan

A retail store owner in any part of the country processes dozens of bKash or Nagad transactions an hour, pays suppliers every week by digital transfer, and never misses a utility bill.

The Baibari Ghar was one of the few genuinely democratic spaces the village had.

The World Bank’s Bangladesh Development Update, released last month, rings out a warning bell for us.

When one crore handwritten Family Cards were verified with NIDs, a single exercise in duplicate removal resulted in the cancellation of 43 lakh cards.

Often in urban Bangladesh, footpaths are cleared of street vendors so that pedestrians can move about comfortably.

According to the World Bank’s April 2026 Bangladesh Development Update, the country’s poverty rate increased to 21.4 percent in 2025 from 18.7 percent in 2022, adding 14 lakh more poor people in 2025.