India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar recently made some strong remarks about Bangladesh at the Delhi University Literature Festival.
A reflection on Bangladesh's post-Awami League crisis and the need for unity and reform.
The student movement’s ability to inspire people to stand up to a vicious oppressor was truly remarkable.
History and ordinary people in general will remember very well what happened over the last week or so.
Unfortunately, all the mechanisms meant to address corruption seem to have been weakened, if not completely destroyed, one after another in recent decades.
While a privileged minority, sitting in their high castles, continue to enjoy a larger and larger share of the fruits of “development,” it is becoming obvious that the vast majority are increasingly struggling.
Bangladesh truly is unique in the sense that its government keeps granting individuals the opportunity to whiten black money, despite its questionable record of success. An amount of Tk 78 crore was whitened in the 1977-78 budget, Tk 850 crore during 1987-90, Tk 1,000 crore during 2000-01, Tk 4,403 crore during 2005-06, Tk 9,683 crore during 2007-08, Tk 1,213 crore during 2009-10, and Tk 20,600 crore in 2020-21.
What message is the government trying to send with its black money whitening facility?
The mismatch highlighted by the IMF could indicate that capital flight in FY23 has increased even more.
With the national election still two weeks away, many national and international observers have already termed it as a farce or “staged election.”
The case against him and WikiLeaks is much more important for what it might entail for press freedom itself.
With scientific progress and the advent of advanced technology, the methods of population control, particularly through the use of information control, emotional manipulation, and mass surveillance have become predominant.
In April this year, South Africa’s BRICS ambassador Anil Sooklal told Bloomberg that a long list of nations were now looking to join the bloc.
The ruling party would be well-advised to change its ways and try to make the people its main source of strength through good governance, by returning power to the people and making amends for its past mistakes.
With all the problems Bangladesh has right now, Moody’s downgrading of its sovereign rating is one of the worst things that could have happened.
Addressing many of our economic problems is proving to be difficult not mainly for economic reasons, but because of political ones.
Dr Hossain Zillur Rahman, executive chairman of the Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC), discusses the upcoming national budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year with Eresh Omar Jamal of The Daily Star.
Through the April 24 incident, we came very close to some major accidents.
