In Bangladesh, whenever militancy is discussed, attention usually turns to the details of specific incidents: where an attack occurred, who was arrested, which organisation was involved, or how many young people were drawn into extremist networks.

This August 25 marks the ninth anniversary of the 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar that subsequently forced more than 700,000 Rohingya to flee into Bangladesh.

Women’s equitable interests in matrimonial property can be secured.

The transformation of how raw news reaches the public has opened Netanyahu’s “eighth front.”

Shipbreaking industry accident records suggest the industry treats its labour as expendable.

Bangladesh is investing heavily in ports, with private operators increasingly entering the sector.

On August 10, a tree fell in the capital’s Dhanmondi area, damaging three parked cars. Fortunately, no one was hurt. But this is not the first time a tree has fallen in the area.

The overall number of refugees has increased, while funding, which used to be relatively healthy before, has declined.

Death could not seal the controversies for Jason Arday.

In its demographic transition, Bangladesh has reached a stage where its working-age population exceeds its dependent population in size—a phenomenon known as the demographic dividend.

Every time Bangladesh’s carbon opportunity comes up for discussion, the conversation usually centres on the same proposal of creating a new authority.

Bangladesh rightly honours its intellectual giants. National professors such as Abdur Razzaq and Dewan Mohammad Azraf are remembered for shaping generations of minds.

Bangladesh has spent five decades protecting the reputation of one raw commodity: our golden fibre, jute.

Congratulations to Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir for being elected president of Bangladesh. We believe he will restore to the post much of the dignity that was eroded by the former one.

Changes in Gulf security can quickly reach Bangladeshi households through remittances, employment, energy prices, shipping costs, and inflation.

A significant yet mostly avoided question in Bangladeshi politics is who is paying for it and what they are gaining from doing so.

The tragedy met by nine workers inside an LNG carrier at the Ferdous Steel Ship Recycling Industries in Chattogram’s Sitakunda on August 14 has, once again, raised concerns about the effectiveness of the safety, compliance, and certification system in our ship recycling sector.

The population story of Bangladesh has long been regarded as a major development success. Fertility fell considerably, child survival improved, life expectancy increased, and the country entered a favourable period in which working-age people outnumbered dependants.

Water is more than a natural resource for Bangladesh’s Indigenous communities—it is a source of life, culture, identity, and spirituality.

The police in Bangladesh still seem to have little regard for negotiation as a tactic to deal with crowds.