Every generation of nations builds the infrastructure that defines its future. Bangladesh has built roads, power plants and digital payment networks. The budget presented yesterday suggests the country’s next great infrastructure project may be different: human capital, powered by teachers, technology and artificial intelligence.

Google is introducing a new system for managing personalisation across its search-related services, giving users more direct control over how their activity is stored and used to shape recommendations.

The proposed national budget for the 2026-27 financial year appears to challenge that approach. It does more than offer a handful of incentives: it recognises that startups create value differently and therefore require a distinct policy framework.

Our city dates back to pre-Mughal times; and Narinda, with this mosque, is a testament to that.

I found myself standing at the edge of the Xinghai Peninsula Wetland Park. What lay ahead was not just a landscape, but a lesson in how a country chooses to treat its water.

The first thing that struck me was how little it felt like a government office

In the attention economy, it doesn’t matter whether you love something or hate it; what matters is that you looked

The lie we tell when a stray dog is beaten, poisoned, or ‘disappeared’ in Bangladesh

Nabil Gabol claims the character of Jameel Jamali was based on him, plans to respond with ‘Lyari Ka Gabbar’

New Delhi Times: A film on analogue era journalism, a mirror for the digital age

Paapa Essiedu’s casting has sparked a fierce fan debate, exposing the uneasy line between loyalty to canon and resistance to representation

March recasts the meaning of falling leaves

Hitchcock’s adaptation turns a dead woman into a living force

Families pour into major attractions

A plate of polao-roast: Eid’s signature pairing

Why Eid does not arrive the same for everyone, and how a classic ghazal gives voice to that quiet divide

Action icon and martial arts maestro dies at 86, leaving behind a legacy

Bangladeshi migrant workers sustain the nation, even as they face growing dangers abroad

A drifting ghazal resurfaces on digital tides, revealing how a shared past still sings in one voice across divided geographies

Six-year-old Arba draws smiles at Dhaka’s Kamalapur Railway Station as she boards a train carrying her beloved pet cockatoo