The proposed national budget for FY2026-27 provides an indication of the newly elected government’s economic philosophy and development priorities.

In the proposed FY2026-27 national budget, the Government of Bangladesh has allocated Tk 69,409 crore to the health sector, out of a total budget of Tk 9.38 lakh crore.

Bangladesh does not necessarily need to invest more in university research. It needs to spend what it already has as if research were meant to generate tangible outcomes.

As someone who had the opportunity to stay back after completing further studies, I feel that portraying the issue of non-returning academics as a crisis of individual morality, rather than reflecting on the lack of institutional incentives that allow Bangladeshi scholars to opt for a different destiny, only tells half of the story.

Anti-Bangladesh rhetoric continues to emanate from influential quarters in West Bengal and across India’s political discourse, which has real consequences. It shapes how ordinary Indians perceive Bangladeshis and creates a climate in which hostility—at immigration counters and in public spaces—may become culturally normalised, making the stay of Bangladeshis anywhere in India fraught with anxiety and insecurity.

Deafblindness is a unique and complex condition involving varying degrees of combined vision and hearing loss.

When I look at the proposed education budget for FY-2026-27, I don’t first think about allocations or percentages of GDP.

The climate budget proposed for FY2026-2027 seems good on paper but, at the same time, confusing, and has missed some obvious opportunities.

Earlier this week, the death of a young man in police custody in Faridpur raised allegations of torture by agitated locals.

It is customary for politicians to campaign against the other side: the opposition speaks against the government and the government against the opposition.

The quality of budget implementation will determine whether investment is stimulated, inflation is reduced, and new jobs are created as planned.

Once a cost becomes unrecoverable, it does not disappear.

Bangladesh has nine months left on a treaty it cannot afford to lose, and no fallback plan if it does.

That such a commanding mandate could dissolve so completely and so quickly suggests the problem runs deeper than any one leader’s failures.

For millions of women, the digital world has become another unsafe street.

Keir Starmer’s resignation is being presented as a dignified submission to democratic accountability.

The proposed national budget for FY2026-27 is more than an outline of the government’s spending plans for the upcoming fiscal year.

What many students describe is not just security management but behavioural policing.

In the early noughties, Dhaka was choking on petrol and octane fumes, and it was then that the government pushed Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) as the answer.

The territory that constitutes Bangladesh has been a political hotbed since the dawn of the 20th century. The country entered a new era in August 1947, after the partition of India, including Bengal.