In 2024, real wages fell across the board: two percent for low-skilled workers, 0.5 percent for high-skilled.

The illusion of stability is maintained through small, delayed payments that create artificial demand.

Dhaka's suffocating reality stems directly from policy failures that treated urban planning as an obstacle, not a necessity.

Based on a survey of 201 journalists across 19 districts, the research paints a picture of a deeply polarised and volatile landscape ahead.

The education system in the Rohingya refugee camps has suffered a major setback from the USAID funding cut.

The revision of the NHRC's legal basis marks a departure from past practice.

Thus far, most public discussion has revolved around the wording of the amendment rather than the remit or scope of the law itself.

Bangladesh's inability to create adequate opportunities for its young population has moved far beyond an economic concern.

What makes these events unbearable is not only their brutality but also the uncanny normalisation that follows.

Every year, thousands of young people step into adult life without the faintest idea of how the tax system works.

Labour's share collapses because wages are suppressed by informal payments embedded throughout production.

Every year, the International Anti-Corruption Day is observed on December 9, shortly followed by the International Human Rights Day.

The absence of "quality" formal schooling is a major root of many of our problems. I vividly remember that I never experienced a joyful school life, neither in primary nor in secondary school. It was largely mechanical, passive, unpleasant, and lacking good teachers, adequate resources, proper infrastructure, and meaningful engagement.

Every year in Bangladesh, many people are being displaced as rising seas, shifting rivers, and extreme weather conditions steadily consume the land beneath their feet.

Religion-based parties must clarify to the nation whether this newly gained visibility of women in their party politics is merely temporary, or...

Dhaka's fruit economy moves through the narrow arteries of Badamtoli, where, before dawn each day, trucks laden with imported Apples from China, Oranges from Egypt, Grapes from South Africa, and dozens of other fruits push through streets never designed for heavy cargo vehicles.

Bangladesh's much-anticipated parliamentary elections are scheduled for next February. And they could not have come at a more fraught time for the country. More than 16 months have passed since the interim administration took office, and unofficial estimates indicate a downward trend in the government's approval ratings.

Many people think that the old authoritarian chapter is over and a new era has begun.

In supply chain terms, the solution lies in improving the quality checkpoints—teaching, learning, and assessment criteria

Israel's problem is that despite its military power and its economic and technological superiority in the Middle East, it has limited capacity to portray its destructiveness as successful victories.