Building markets that last: Rethinking development partnership
Mohammed Soeb Iftekhar, Director of Programs, iDE Bangladesh, talks to Shams Rashid Tonmoy of The Daily Star
26 October 2025, 03:29 AM
26 October 2025, 03:29 AM
Harnessing markets for rural resilience in Bangladesh
Sameer Karki, Country Director, iDE Bangladesh, talks to Shams Rashid of The Daily Star
19 October 2025, 07:36 AM
19 October 2025, 07:36 AM
The uncomfortable AI resurrection of dead celebrities
A new, and deeply unsettling, trend is flooding social media feeds. It is not a dance challenge or a recipe video. It is the digital resurrection of deceased celebrities, all generated by artificial intelligence.
8 October 2025, 10:26 AM
8 October 2025, 10:26 AM
Next Step / The career jungle gym: thriving when there's no ladder to climb
Unlike a ladder, a jungle gym career isn't about a single, predetermined path to the top. It’s a multi-dimensional structure where progress isn't just upward: it's lateral, diagonal, and sometimes even a strategic step down to a new platform to access a better route forward.
7 October 2025, 04:11 AM
7 October 2025, 04:11 AM
Next Step / How AI is making remote work smarter
From drafting emails faster to scheduling meetings more smoothly, AI has quietly become a co-worker in the background. However, beyond convenience, new research shows that AI is changing the way remote work operates - shaping team collaboration, work patterns, and even the perks companies offer to attract talent.
30 September 2025, 05:02 AM
30 September 2025, 05:02 AM
Next Step / Your career’s secret weapon? Honest self-assessment
When you’re new in a job, it’s normal to feel like you don’t understand half of what’s going on. But as months pass, you start recognising your strengths, weaknesses, and areas to improve. Regular self-assessment is one of the most effective ways to stay on top of growth and keep your career moving forward.
23 September 2025, 04:25 AM
23 September 2025, 04:25 AM
Next Step / The duet of man and machine
Let’s have a chat about the elephant in every room, on every Zoom call, and in every strategic plan: artificial intelligence. If your feelings about it range between excitement and unease, you’re in very good company.
16 September 2025, 05:33 AM
16 September 2025, 05:33 AM
Next Step / Why soft skills could be your strongest career asset
New research suggests that what really matters for long-term success may not be these job-specific skills at all. Instead, it’s the more flexible, often overlooked abilities – the so-called ‘soft skills’ that help people adapt, grow, and thrive in a rapidly changing workplace.
2 September 2025, 04:02 AM
2 September 2025, 04:02 AM
Team from Bangladesh qualifies for World Cup of Pokémon
This year's World Cup of Pokémon qualifiers featured over 200 players from 17 teams, each representing their countries/continents to claim the final three spots in the main knockoff series.
22 May 2023, 13:33 PM
TECNO SPARK 10 Pro: Fun camera for fans on a budget
TECNO is known by fans as a reliable provider of affordable smartphones for those on a budget. Their latest release, TECNO SPARK 10 Pro, caters to the budget market once again, this time focusing mostly on the camera performance.
21 April 2023, 04:00 AM
This Bangladeshi app lets you buy, sell and store gold digitally
Meet Gold Kinen - a local app where one can buy, sell and store gold using their own personal vault.
17 April 2023, 17:41 PM
Nothing like being too careful
This week’s Cover Story is all about being safe from fire hazards, and how you can stay one ahead of such unfortunate occurrences.
17 March 2023, 02:30 AM
Truck Lagbe: Redefining traditional trucking
Trucks have always played a critical role in the economic and logistics development of Bangladesh. Not only are they a reliable method of transporting large quantities of goods across distant areas, but their versatility in construction, mining and manufacturing jobs also makes them an irreplaceable asset in the transport industry.
4 March 2023, 18:00 PM
iFarmer: The tech-enabled one-stop solution for smallholder farmers
Bangladesh is home to about 16.5 million farmers, constituting about 28% of the country's 170 million population.
4 March 2023, 18:00 PM
Your friendly neighbourhood chatbot
Turn to this week’s Cover Story to learn about AlapChari, the chatbot that receives questions and answers them in our glorious mother tongue.
3 March 2023, 03:00 AM
Meet the Bangla ChatGPT - AlapChari
A chabot that runs on the same language model as ChatGPT, AlapChari can provide coherent responses to users' questions in Bangla.
1 March 2023, 06:13 AM
Hollywoodisation of video games: Blurring the lines of interactive media
Despite the very first video games stemming from the 1950s, it wasn’t until the popularity of arcades and home consoles in the 1980s that video games truly entered worldwide pop culture.
14 February 2023, 18:00 PM
The electric dream
Is Bangladesh ready to embrace the electric dream? That’s exactly what we discuss in this week’s Cover Story.
27 January 2023, 03:00 AM
New year, new tech
With that, welcome to 2023. Happy new year everyone.
6 January 2023, 03:00 AM
2022: the year of technological resurgence
Before the year officially ends, let's take a look at the biggest tech happenings in 2022.
30 December 2022, 04:00 AM
Finding that one fine line
And with that, the second last issue of the year! See you next weekend for the 2022 wrapup!
22 December 2022, 18:19 PM
Out of sight but not out of mind
Out of sight but not out of mind.
16 December 2022, 03:00 AM
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: The best of a bugged world
Welcome to the 9th generation of Pokémon.
3 December 2022, 14:30 PM
Future-proofing mission-critical businesses with cloud solutions
Celebrating their 30th anniversary this year, the global data storage management company NetApp has been making strides in Bangladesh for over 17 years and counting.
2 December 2022, 03:35 AM
Where the work goes
See you next weekend. Until then.
2 December 2022, 03:00 AM
Revival of the fittest
As always, have a good weekend. Until then.
25 November 2022, 03:00 AM
Meet the Bangladeshi Art Director who worked on these games
Aside from God of War Ragnarök, Tanvir M. N. Islam has also worked as an Art Director in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Warrior, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and Sniper Elite 5: France.
20 November 2022, 13:06 PM
This AI recognises Bangla speech and text
Bengali.AI is a voluntary research initiative that aims to democratise AI research in Bangla by teaching AI the Bangla we use every day.
18 November 2022, 04:15 AM