A preventable outbreak in a system that did not act in time
12 April 2026, 09:00 AM
In March alone, amid a sudden measles outbreak, some 229 patients died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) awaiting ICU beds. Ninety-one of the deceased were children. Many died on waiting lists, never receiving the treatment they needed, and the numbers are still rising.
12 April 2026, 09:00 AM
Time to strategise the long-term cost of energy stability
2 April 2026, 09:00 AM
The current approach has kept conditions stable for now, but it also risks something closer to Friedrich Nietzsche’s idea of recurrence, where what is unresolved does not disappear.
2 April 2026, 09:00 AM
Building energy resilience in an age of global shocks
16 March 2026, 17:56 PM
For Bangladesh, the latest tensions in the Middle East highlight how intricately national energy systems—and domestic economic stability—are now intertwined with global political developments.
16 March 2026, 17:56 PM
Six years on, have we learnt our lessons from Covid?
8 March 2026, 01:35 AM
The memory of the pandemic crisis should serve as a reminder that pandemics do not just test hospitals; they also test the preparedness, coordination, and foresight of entire systems.
8 March 2026, 01:35 AM
When coercion becomes a governance mechanism
3 March 2026, 00:00 AM
If dominance is present, the border between “agreement” and “compliance” becomes difficult to distinguish
3 March 2026, 00:00 AM
Bangladesh’s foreign policy enters its post-election test
23 February 2026, 00:47 AM
The recently held parliamentary election in Bangladesh was watched more closely than usual.
23 February 2026, 00:47 AM
The weight of a supermajority in parliament
16 February 2026, 00:00 AM
Large mandates are usually treated as moments of political triumph. In institutional terms, however, they are something else: a change in the conditions under which power operates.
16 February 2026, 00:00 AM
Will this election pass the minority protection test?
9 February 2026, 00:11 AM
In late December, several houses of minority communities in Raozan and Rangunia upazilas of Chattogram were padlocked from outside and set on fire, forcing families to cut their way out to safety.
9 February 2026, 00:11 AM
The invisible people of Venezuela
Venezuela is in a limbo. The country has two presidents fighting over legitimacy; two superpowers eying its rich oil fields and gold mines; an economy that is on the verge of collapse with inflation reaching one million percent and external debt shattering the roof at more than 175 percent of GDP; and an unfolding humanitarian crisis that has forced more than three million people to flee to neighbouring countries seeking refuge.
11 May 2019, 18:00 PM
Celebrating people’s uprisings in Algeria and Sudan
The vigil of hundreds and thousands of peaceful protesters on the streets of Algeria and Sudan speaks of the same sense of collective disenfranchisement, juxtaposed with a desperate optimism, that lit the signal fires of change in Egypt’s Tahrir Square in 2011.
4 May 2019, 18:00 PM