Taxing microsavings risks undermining financial inclusion for the poor
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Can sand-filling help coastal households adapt to salinity?
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How much longer must we wait for press freedom?
12 October 2026
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Modernise flood damage assessments to protect haor farmers
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Strengthening consumer protection must go beyond mobile court raids
11 October 2026
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New NCT deal must deliver measurable gains for Bangladesh
11 October 2026
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Tea workers deserve a say in reforms to their industry
11 October 2026
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International Day of the Girl Child / Valuing daughters means sharing the responsibility of care
11 October 2026
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Beware machines that always take our side
11 October 2026
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World Mental Health Day / We must prevent overreliance on AI chatbots for emotional support
10 October 2026
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How stable is the global financial system really?
The global financial system looks stable, because central banks have shifted more and more debt onto their books.
21 October 2023
Why we should care about the WGA strike
This strike came about because writers wanted fairer compensations, proper residuals, regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), better working standards, and anti-discrimination measures.
21 October 2023
Why the delay in declaring minimum wage for RMG workers?
Will the wage board and our policymakers truly hear the stories of backbreaking work and heartbreaking debt of the garment workers, who have kept the economy going even at its worst phases?
21 October 2023
The war on error
Israel’s occupation of territories and desire to parcel all Palestinians as Arabs to the neighbouring countries have become blatantly clear.
21 October 2023
Who buys property abroad, and who pays for it?
These cases of illegal property purchase abroad are not the main acts of corruption – these are the symptoms.
20 October 2023
To fight fast fashion, we must not throw our clothes away
Fixing instead of ditching clothing is gaining momentum.
20 October 2023
Is the youth losing interest in political participation online?
And if they are online so much, do they find political engagement on social media to be safe and useful?
20 October 2023
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
What we can do to prevent plastic from taking over our seas
In Bangladesh, the menace of plastic pollution extends beyond urban areas, affecting coastal regions as well.
20 October 2023
Israel’s hubris will be its undoing
The increasing ferocity of Israeli attacks will only garner further support for Palestine.
19 October 2023
Pink tax: The cost of being a woman
The fight against breast cancer isn't just about awareness, it's also about equity.
19 October 2023
Could debt cancellation finance Bangladesh’s climate actions?
Reducing dependency on international climate financing requires innovation in financial instruments and mechanisms.
19 October 2023
Closing the sustainable energy gaps in Asia and the Pacific
To bridge the energy gap and promote climate-friendly sustainable development, increasing renewable energy and energy efficiency are imperative.
19 October 2023
Talking is the only way out
When dialogue fails, confrontation becomes inevitable.
19 October 2023
Is there a psychological barrier when Bangladesh faces India in cricket?
We can confidently hope that our cricketers don’t quite participate in the same mental gymnastics that keep fans like us on a knife’s edge during any Bangladesh-India match, there is something to be said about the collective national approach of facing India in a cricket match.
18 October 2023
The Western rhetoric that devalues our lives
Since I was 16 years old, I have seen the US, my country, kill brown Muslim people by the millions.
18 October 2023
The need for an admission test
One may wonder why admission tests should be required in place of allowing results-based admission.
18 October 2023
Bangladesh Genocide of 1971: Time for the West to walk the talk
The genocide that Pakistan’s occupational forces committed in Bangladesh in 1971 has yet to get due recognition.
18 October 2023
Plains of protest
Students have always been the first to engage in discourses on divisive borders with imagined, imposing lines, language, religion or tradition.
18 October 2023
Why CPD's proposal is not acceptable
Why should there be two different food standards for two social strata?
17 October 2023