Samir Ranjan Nath, programme head at the BRAC Institute of Educational Development, discusses learning gaps in primary education.

Bangladesh has committed itself to achieving universal health coverage (UHC).

In Bangladesh, buying an electric car is perfectly legal. However, turning the car you already own into one is not.

University leaders in Bangladesh eloquently describe a compelling vision of what their universities should aspire to be.

Last month, the prime minister told parliament that his government was planning to introduce courses on a third language from Class 6.

Climate change is not just transforming Bangladesh’s landscape; it’s gradually reshaping where people live, work, and build their futures.

The Padma Barrage is one of Bangladesh’s major planned water infrastructure projects, intended to address water scarcity in the southwest during the dry season.

The government’s decision in April to channel public university research funding through the University Grants Commission (UGC) has since triggered an intense debate.

After our Liberation War, we started off with the parliamentary system of government. Then Bangabandhu himself betrayed that vision and that of multiparty democracy by instituting BAKSAL, a one-party system, and introducing the presidential model of government.

History has endowed our family of nations with shared language, legal traditions, institutional similarities, and diaspora networks that make commerce easier and cheaper.

Dhaka University is considering an important reform: introducing separate Science Unit (Ka unit) question sets for Bangla-medium and English-medium applicants so that each group is assessed in a way that better reflects its curriculum.

My first concern is that Home Economics itself has traditionally been treated as a highly gendered subject.

When more than 10,000 young Indians marched from Jantar Mantar to the parliament in New Delhi on Monday—responding to a call by the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) movement—police launched a crackdown on them with tear gas and batons, allegedly injuring about 150 protesters and detaining many others.

On June 7, a special court sentenced Sohel Rana, the prime accused, and his wife Swapna Khatun (who helped him escape) to death for the rape and murder of eight-year-old Ramisa Akter.

When a bank loses money through bad financing, lending too much to a few connected borrowers, or fails to recover even normal loans, someone has to bear that loss. And, as per the mudarabah principle, customers would primarily bear that loss, with a few exceptions.

Recently, parliament introduced new provisions to bring technology-driven narcotics offences under the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Bill 2026, under which even the maximum punishment—the death penalty—could be meted out for illegal drug trade conducted through cyberspace.

Dhaka recently ranked as the world’s third least liveable city in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Global Liveability Index 2026, for the second consecutive year.

An international airport is more than a transport terminal; it is the first demonstration of how a country organises itself.

The introduction of SWAp transformed Bangladesh’s health sector from a fragmented collection of donor-funded projects into a coordinated, government-led programme.

A country cannot end a harm it does not measure.