In theory, this sounds like a good idea, but it is not so straightforward.

UN recognition of the 1971 East Pakistan genocide is not only important for the global body to regain its credibility and effectiveness, but also to expose a military institution which is seen as of strategic value to the West.

There must be a functional land commission that will effectively work to resolve the land issues.

Not allowing several private universities to perform up to their potential lets education down in Bangladesh.

Living with Dhaka’s noise pollution is a gruelling endurance test.

These issues arise in the context of startups due to a disorganised policy framework across various ministries.

There is an abundance of wealth in pockets and for a segment of the upper crust of civil society commingling with the underlying sub-strata consisting of the populace who fight hunger and poor health.

2022 has been a year of great uncertainty when it seemed the world perilously reached the brink of self-destruction – be it human-induced climate change or military conflict.

Our recently published study has found several alarming factors contributing to declining academic freedom in the universities of Bangladesh.

For someone with a serious mental health issue, getting up from bed every day is a great challenge.

Khulna, the third largest city of Bangladesh, with a current population of approximately 950,000 and land area spanning 40.8 square kilometres, is the only city in the country which has been experiencing a negative population growth over the last two decades.

This election year, the question that will inevitably come to the fore is of how successful AL has been in keeping its promises.

Unpredictability has become the new normal in a world afflicted by the forces of deglobalisation amidst rising geopolitical tensions.

If you are ready to launder ill-gotten wealth, make sure it is in the thousands of crores – a few hundred crores is embarrassingly measly in this game of big bucks.

To improve medium-term growth, China must heed the lessons of its own history and focus on removing barriers to market entry and entrepreneurship. An economy’s growth rate comes from a combination of an increase in the average size of existing firms (intensive-margin growth) and an increase in the number of firms (extensive-margin growth). A study of the Chinese manufacturing sector that I co-authored with Xiaobo Zhang suggests that during the last few decades, extensive-margin growth accounted for about 70 percent of overall GDP expansion.

Amit Chaudhuri is one of our most gifted writers, a Bengali novelist and musician with an accomplished repertoire.

Human rights violations of Indigenous peoples, especially land-grabbing, continued unabated

To avoid confrontation, both AL and BNP must come to a consensus.

The most moving part about these poetry sessions is the conversations.

After this new ban, many NGOs that were working for the development of Afghanistan have stopped their operations, demanding the withdrawal of the irrational bans.