Without serious commitment to implement reform in financial sector, revenue collection and governance, the initiative of issuing foreign currency bond seems like cart-before-the-horse case.
Nothing currently in place would produce a different result this time, and a mechanism, not a further calendar date, is what the Korean and Japanese examples both actually supply.
None of this is really new, only newly visible. The Caspian has functioned as a sealed smuggling corridor between Moscow and Tehran since the summer of 2022.
A female teacher's social media reel sparked national outrage -- but the controversy reveals far more about gendered surveillance, respectability politics and patriarchal control than it does about education.
An enforced disappearance can be prosecuted under the ICT Act only when it forms part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population. Standalone cases of enforced disappearance committed by state officials fall outside this framework.
In Episode 8 of Counterpoint with Zafar Sobhan, Zafar Sobhan is joined by Dr. Mubashar Hasan for a candid and deeply personal conversation on regional politics, international affairs, democracy, and the geopolitical challenges shaping South Asia.A powerful conversation on democracy, human rights, political memory, and the lasting impact of authoritarian repression. #Counterpoi
Deep political involvement is necessary to set policies, which bureaucracies can then execute, not vice versa, the whole nation, regardless of political leanings, prefers its leader to be bold yet pragmatic
The BJP might be on the backfoot now but the protesting students are aware of how long their struggle to reform education might take.
When chronically online youth took to the streets, they stripped the state’s harshest response of the fear it was meant to inspire.
For many youngsters, political awareness began with doubts, arguments with parents and learning to think for themselves with the help of social media.
The future of work is arriving faster than many expected. The future of Bangladesh will depend on how effectively its youth are prepared to meet it.
Today, we understand far more about how children learn, how creativity develops, and how deeply our survival depends on our relationship with nature. Yet our education systems often seem designed for a world that no longer exists.
When viewed through the lens of the so-called Walmart Effect, the outcome is not necessarily one-directional and may even create certain opportunities for a low-cost producer like Bangladesh.
Democracy is ultimately sustained not merely by constitutions or institutions but by public trust. Once that trust begins to starve, feeding the body alone is never enough. The institutions themselves must learn to nourish hope before protest becomes the only language left.
The same discipline runs in reverse. “Got it.” “Saw it, on it.” Two words, and the loop closes from both ends instead of hanging open on one.
Behind every woman labelled "too harsh" may be years of swallowed humiliation. Years of carefully choosing politeness over dignity. Years of emotional labour performed for everyone except herself.
