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To promote Bangladesh's tourism industry, we need to look beyond what we would desire as local tourists and focus on what foreign tourists tell us they are interested in.
History rarely tells countries in advance that the rules of economic advantage are being rewritten. This time, the warning is already visible. Bangladesh cannot recover the technological revolutions it entered late. But it can still decide whether it arrives late to this one.
At the same time, Bangladesh is producing a growing number of university graduates who are struggling to find productive employment. Rather than treating these two problems separately, Bangladesh should connect them.
Ganapati Chakraborty dedicated his life to guiding generations of students towards truth and justice. The blood of his family must not fade into just another transient headline.
Nepal is owed something more substantial than sympathy and more useful than a loan charging interest on damage it did not cause. Monitoring of unstable ice and glacial lakes concerns the whole basin and should be funded on a standing basis, with hydrological data crossing borders as a matter of routine rather than negotiation.
The ultimate test should be simple: Does membership enhance Bangladesh's security, economic interests and diplomatic leverage while preserving its freedom to make independent decisions? If the answer is yes, the pact deserves serious consideration. If it threatens strategic autonomy, caution should prevail.
Bangladesh stands at an energy crossroads. By pairing modern financial risk management, diversified onshore infrastructure, and long-term producer partnerships with free-market structural reforms, the nation can move past recurring energy crises and build a resilient foundation for future economic growth.
The silence at dawn in Tipra Para is not the silence of an empty forest. It is the quiet of a community whose presence has survived successive rounds of leases, surveys, forest classifications and conservation measures.
Climate mobility should not be viewed exclusively through the lens of loss and displacement. When supported by effective policies, mobility can contribute to economic development, strengthen resilience, and expand opportunities for affected populations.
A financially free woman is not simply one who earns. She is one whose contribution is recognised, who has meaningful control over economic resources, and who has genuine freedom to decide how her time, work and money are used.
Public confidence in the future is still stronger than satisfaction with current delivery. That “expectation premium” is a political asset -- but a time-limited one.
If essential medicines remain outside effective price control, public health will depend less on policy -- and more on what patients can afford. For many Bangladeshis, that is not a sustainable equation.
The Charter belongs to no party. Whoever channels public impatience into pressure for its implementation will own ground nobody else is contesting.
If autonomy matters only in relation to one great power while compliance with another is rebranded as "technical cooperation," then Bangladesh has not escaped dependency. It has merely changed its address.
The government is still following the crawling peg system, allowing the exchange rate to vary between lower limit and higher limit with the difference with the market rate no more than a Taka.
If the chair simply remains empty, the summit proceeds, other states advance their interests, India absorbs the symbolism without changing its behaviour, and Bangladesh returns home with little more than domestic applause, then it was not leverage. It was an opportunity lost.
