World Rivers Day / Lessons from the Baral River movement
Many rivers in Bangladesh are in their death throes.
28 September 2025, 04:00 AM
28 September 2025, 04:00 AM
Bangladesh needs revolutionary changes to deal with floods
That is the only way we will be able to protect the people from the recurring pain and suffering caused by floods and equip them so they can tackle the impact of climate change.
24 August 2024, 02:00 AM
24 August 2024, 02:00 AM
Lessons we can learn from the recent Teesta disaster
We do need a Teesta megaplan, but not the one that the BWDB is proposing.
20 October 2023, 02:00 AM
20 October 2023, 02:00 AM
Why Western approaches can't prevent river erosion in Bangladesh
It is because the physical nature of rivers in Bangladesh are different from that of the rivers in Western countries.
26 August 2023, 02:00 AM
26 August 2023, 02:00 AM
A proportional election as a way out of the impasse
The proportional system can ensure the robust presence of contending political parties in parliament and thus allay the fear of becoming marginalised.
3 August 2023, 03:00 AM
3 August 2023, 03:00 AM
The sorry state of rivers in Bangladesh
There used to be more than a thousand rivers crisscrossing through Bangladesh. Many of those rivers are now lost, mostly due to human interventions.
27 September 2022, 14:00 PM
27 September 2022, 14:00 PM
The Mirage of Teesta Treaty
It is necessary to be aware of the real and unvarnished truth regarding the sharing of common rivers between Bangladesh and India.
6 September 2022, 15:00 PM
6 September 2022, 15:00 PM
Buying vs selling dollars: What should we do?
The US dollar has now surpassed the Tk 100 mark, and Bangladesh Bank is making contradictory moves to deal with the situation.
16 July 2022, 14:00 PM
16 July 2022, 14:00 PM
'Untranquil Recollections': Reviewing the memoir of Rehman Sobhan, an incurable optimist
The second volume of Rehman Sobhan’s memoirs, Untranquil Recollections: Political Economy of Nation Building in Post-Liberation Bangladesh (University Press Limited, 2022) deals primarily with the years of 1972 to 1975,
1 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Some lessons from the untimely Teesta flood
An untimely flood wreaked havoc on the Teesta basin in Bangladesh, beginning on the night of Wednesday, October 20. A sudden onrush of Teesta water flooded the area to a level that has not been witnessed since 1968.
25 October 2021, 18:00 PM