The ART agreement is against the interest of tens of thousands of families in Bangladesh whose livelihood depends on chicken farming. For their sake, the ART should be re-negotiated. It is shocking that the interim government signed this agreement without consulting representatives of the poultry industry.
The problem is not only that laws fail after harm occurs, but that outdated laws make women unsure whether what they are facing is legally recognized as harm or not.
Global trade politics are changing. Reciprocity now matters far more in Washington than it once did.
Tarique Rahman’s expected Malaysia-China sequence is a necessary correction to an India-centric past. Malaysia gives the visit diplomatic balance and China gives it strategic weight. But the correction will only succeed if it produces a wider foreign-policy basket without chipping away at Bangladesh’s sovereign decision-making space.
The generation gap becomes dangerous only when generations stop listening to one another. When experience and innovation walk side by side, education becomes what it is truly meant to be -- a bridge between the past and the future
As Bangladesh aspires to become a developed and knowledge-based economy, strengthening intellectual property protection must become a national priority.
Not only must the war around the world be stopped, but any illegitimate war anywhere in the world must also be treated as a war against humanity.
In many ways, the deployment of AI-controlled traffic signals represents a test of whether Dhaka is prepared to embrace smarter urban governance.
For many, the desire to contribute extends far beyond remittances -- it reflects a deep and enduring connection to the country.
The people living along the southwest's rivers want the river back. A barrage and a river are different things.
The recent trade agreement with the US could stop Bangladesh from building any more nuclear power plants.
The doctors of Bangladesh are not the disease. They are symptoms of a system that has been starved, stretched, and left to collapse quietly while our politicians fly to London and Singapore for their own check-ups. Someone needs to call this what it is. A national emergency. A moral failure. A crusade waiting for people willing to fight it.
If canals worth thousands of crores of taka are excavated but become filled up or abandoned within a few years, the country will suffer irreparable losses, which would go against the intentions of our policymakers.
Bangladesh will not experience a shock, but it will face a shift -- from a system dominated by generic competition to one where intellectual property plays a more active role in shaping market access and industrial upgrading.
The workers did their job. Now the state needs to do its part. Our remittances are as big as our garments. So why does one get a ministry and the other get a circular?
A farmer in Rangpur, a student in Barishal, an entrepreneur in Khulna, or a patient in Sylhet should not feel disadvantaged simply because they live outside Dhaka.
