Only through a combined approach -- strengthened technical capacity, strict regulation, and informed public awareness -- can we ensure that vaccines retain their full effectiveness from manufacturer to patient, and that preventable tragedies are avoided.
This is not a government choosing China over India, or East Asia over the West. Rather, Dhaka is trying to keep every door open for as long as the money keeps coming in and as long as no single lender or ally claims it exclusively.
An unknown number of Bangladeshi young men whose families parted with savings of 10 lakh taka or more for the prospect of a better life for them, find themselves on a distant frontline in a war they never chose, in a country whose language they cannot speak, and fighting for a side they were never asked to join.
By placing Pakistan in MENAAP, the World Bank is giving institutional weight to this development path, one centred on migration, remittances, energy dependence, external finance and rentier capital. Pakistan’s reclassification is not Bangladesh’s crisis, but it is Bangladesh’s warning.
However critical we may be, the role of the Indian media is noteworthy in the recent remarks of the ex-Chief Minister of West Bengal made on the case of Hadi killings. They collectively refrained, through mainstream and social media, from broadcasting the news publicly to preserve their national interests.
Climate activists paint a dire picture of rising temperatures devastating crops and fueling famine, but they are mostly wrong. Climate change will alter farming conditions, benefiting some areas, challenging others, with a net negative but negligible impact.
A higher public-sector wage bill may be justified, but without revenue reform and administrative restructuring, it could narrow Bangladesh's fiscal space for years to come.
Bangladesh does not need a government that owns everything. It needs a government that has the political will to solve issues from the perspective of its citizens and not of the ruling class.
Humans are not passive recipients of incentives; they are active interpreters who respond creatively, strategically, and sometimes opportunistically.
Democracies flourish when institutions remain stronger than personalities and when constitutional principles remain superior to partisan interests. Bangladesh's future cannot be secured through improvised arrangements or symbolic declarations alone.
A budget succeeds not because it contains attractive numbers but because citizens, investors, entrepreneurs, and international partners trust those numbers.
The binary is brutally simple. Nations that negotiate as supplicants get extracted. Nations that negotiate as sovereigns get developed.
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 most successful developmental states were not necessarily those that possessed perfect knowledge from the outset. Rather, they were states capable of learning rapidly, adjusting policies pragmatically, and building institutional memory over time.
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.
