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Bangladesh is training more young people, but the economy is not creating enough jobs to absorb them. The result is a growing gap between skills development and meaningful employment.
Dhaka has deepened military ties with Turkey while normalizing relations with Pakistan. This commitment towards strategic autonomy unsettles security planners in New Delhi, who view the accumulation of these moves as a potential erosion of Indian influence in the Bay of Bengal.
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.
The future will depend not simply on how intelligent machines become, but on whether society remains committed to nurturing emotionally healthy, critically thoughtful, and socially connected human beings.
The woman does not remain because she is foolish. She may be trapped inside a psychologically destabilizing pattern in which exceptional moments of tenderness are interpreted as evidence that the relationship can still be saved.
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.
The next government will also be tempted to inherit the same bargain: Loyalty in exchange for protection, administrative convenience in exchange for silence. Reform begins when a government chooses to give up that convenience. Until then, ministers will continue to fall while the permanent government learns to serve, and outlast, whoever replaces them.
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.
The military pact should not be viewed as an Islamic NATO. There are several reasons for this perspective. For one, there is no indication that a potential Indian attack on Pakistan would trigger a joint retaliation against India from all the signatories of the pact, the signature feature of NATO’s Article 5.
Bangladesh has already demonstrated that revolutions can go viral. The unfinished challenge is ensuring that reform becomes institutional.
The defining question is no longer whether China has become a global power, but whether its model of development and statecraft will shape the rules of the international order in the decades ahead.
Lower interest rates can reduce the cost of borrowing. They cannot repair broken credit discipline, restore depleted capital, or rebuild confidence. Monetary policy can support economic recovery only when the banking system is capable of allocating capital on commercial rather than political grounds.
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.
