Taxing microsavings risks undermining financial inclusion of the poor
12 October 2026
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Can sand-filling help coastal households adapt to salinity?
12 October 2026
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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
12 October 2026
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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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If your court case is stuck for lack of evidence, try RTI
Indications of the growing maturity of RTI Act users and the increasing willingness of public officials to abide by its provisions are indeed welcome developments.
15 August 2023
Did the Dohazari-Cox's Bazar rail line worsen floods?
The under-construction rail project has unintentionally created an obstacle for the natural water flow in the region
14 August 2023
Time to look into carbon capture and credit
Carbon capture and storage involves capturing CO2 emissions from industrial processes or power plants and storing them underground.
14 August 2023
Cyber Security Act and the fear of history repeating itself
No one would have any objection if a cybersecurity law was enacted to deal with cybercrimes without infringing freedom of speech.
14 August 2023
What we are missing in our fight against dengue is data
We are significantly missing advanced technology and data-driven approaches in our handling of the crisis.
14 August 2023
Investment in children will give lifelong returns
The proportion of the budget allocated to children-focused programmes does not fully address the magnitude of the challenges.
13 August 2023
Cyber Security Act will not stop criminalising freedom of expression
It is rather dubious why the government wants to have another draconian cyber security law right before the next national elections.
13 August 2023
Despite progress, there are miles to go
The public sector now provides only 37 percent of modern contraception, down from 44 percent in 2011.
13 August 2023
Barbenheimer was insensitive, actually
Why is it okay to make memes and jokes about Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
13 August 2023
Health needs more focus in our climate actions
How to integrate the health sector more prominently in our national adaptation actions?
13 August 2023
Why is the EC unable to do its due diligence?
Our Election Commission has selected some organisations for the purpose of election observation which exist only on paper.
12 August 2023
Good governance is a bad idea
The good governance agenda has lost its label, but it lives on, and it has become an existential threat.
12 August 2023
How to reclaim flyovers as people-centric ‘green’ infrastructure
Characterised by a culture of ad hocism, these valuable urban lands below elevated road infrastructures rarely reach their full potential.
12 August 2023
Help young people steward green transition
Youth are the driving force of change
12 August 2023
What caused the catastrophic floods in Chattogram?
The waterlogging problem in Chattogram city is not unsolvable.
11 August 2023
We don’t want more people in jail for their posts on the internet
The DSA is being renamed to Cyber Security Act (CSA) with some cosmetic changes and hefty fines.
11 August 2023
A call for leadership training
Teaching-learning is tethered sadly to lectures and rote learning where students engage in little analysis, synthesis or application.
11 August 2023
Dhaka’s ugly, ruthless side
The story would resonate with many young couples starting out in this ruthless city, where what you earn is nowhere near what you spend, just for the bare minimum.
11 August 2023
The interim solution for Pakistan
Yet another former prime minister bites the dust.
10 August 2023
Oppenheimer Paradox: Power of Science and the Weakness of Scientists
The atomic bomb represented multiple ruptures in society – not just at the level of war, but also the recognition in society that science was no longer the concern of the scientists alone but of all of us.
10 August 2023