Sajedul Hoq

In his budget speech for the fiscal year 2025-26, Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed announced a plan to introduce 400 electric buses into Dhaka’s public transport network to make the system “sustainable, safer, and environmentally friendly.”

Bangladesh’s roads are killing fields not by accident, but by design.

At the heart of the problem is what many experts call a “governance breakdown.”

Jackfruit remains a vastly underutilised resource in our food system