Arctic rivalries: Why the Northwest Passage matters
5 MIN(s) ago
Geopolitical Insights
Commanding Arctic waters and located nearer America than Europe, Greenland carries immense strategic value.
What we miss when we talk about migrant labour
25 February 2026, 15:53 PM
As we consider the realities faced by migrants, their power to organise, and the significance of their contributions, it becomes clear that migration is not a problem to be solved but a dynamic process to be understood and respected.
In the shadow of distance: Bangladesh, memory, and the diasporic imagination
25 February 2026, 12:42 PM
Among expatriates in Sydney—where the Bangladeshi community has grown steadily over the past two decades, driven largely by international students—there persists a lament about corruption’s corrosive reach.
Reading ‘Parallels’ through history, politics and literature
24 February 2026, 11:22 AM
If we look at Bangladesh in parallel to Europe during the 1968 uprisings, we find Dhaka itself boiling with mass unrest in 1969.
André Béteille: A sociologist Bangladesh should read
23 February 2026, 17:17 PM
It is puzzling that in Bangladesh universities, both sociology and anthropology disciplines overlooked and neglected the Weberian model of multidimensional stratification system.
Let’s electrify our kitchen
22 February 2026, 13:35 PM
Slow Reads
An electric rice cooker has solutions for all the issues – health, safety, energy, vitamin, environment.
Emerging pollutants and public health risks in Bangladesh
21 February 2026, 00:42 AM
Big Picture
Moreover, microplastics can absorb heavy metals such as nickel, cadmium, lead, copper, and titanium onto their surfaces, increasing the risk of cancer in the human body.
You won! Now what?
14 February 2026, 17:07 PM
Big Picture
We don’t need more violence, not even in the name of punishment.
How is ignoring safe water and sanitation slowing sustainable growth?
14 February 2026, 00:49 AM
Big Picture
Bangladesh has around 180 million people living in a small land area and ranks 8th in the world by population, though the GDP of the country was USD 2551 in 2023.
Passion for the past
6 October 2019, 18:00 PM
In Focus
Born on October 1, 1918, in the village of Darikandi under Bancharampur upazila in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh, Abul Kalam Mohammad Zakariah received his Matriculation Certificate in 1939 from Brindaban High School in Bancharampur and Intermediate Certificate in 1941 from Dacca Intermediate College (currently Dhaka College), Dhaka.
The great age of Chittagong and our failure to understand it
23 February 2026, 00:00 AM
Slow Reads
Accessing the sea through the Karnaphuli River, Chittagong’s site was exceptional in the early modern age of commerce.
Capturing the Language Movement: Rafiqul's rare archive
22 February 2026, 15:14 PM
In Focus
Rafiqul was an eyewitness to the Language Movement of 1948. At the time he was a Class Ten student at St Gregory’s School.
A first vote, a quiet hope
15 February 2026, 13:55 PM
Wisdom
Casting my first vote felt like pride. It also carried a trace of guilt, the awareness that every choice means rejecting another.
The politics of “self-care” in the times of despair
4 February 2026, 14:48 PM
Wisdom
Much of the popular discourse on self-care in recent years has been reduced to commodified routines.
Other side of George Orwell
25 January 2026, 20:07 PM
Wisdom
After his firsthand experience of poverty, Orwell turned his attention to the English working class.
Between Dhaka and the UK: Living the in-between
13 January 2026, 14:50 PM
Returning forced me to confront an uncomfortable truth: belonging is not always singular.
Are Bangladesh’s multilingual youth being heard?
21 February 2026, 01:10 AM
Unheard Voices
There is clear evidence that learning in multiple languages, starting with the mother tongue and then gradually adding national and global languages, is good for cognitive abilities and does not impair language skills in second and third languages.
Dyslexia: A blind spot in Bangladesh’s education and child development system
14 February 2026, 01:00 AM
Unheard Voices
Many of us remember the child in Taare Zameen Par-misunderstood, labelled lazy, punished for academic failure-only begins to flourish when a teacher recognises his dyslexia.
The hidden cost of battery-run rides
14 February 2026, 00:57 AM
Unheard Voices
The rise of battery-run auto rickshaws has changed the rhythm of Bangladesh’s streets. They are fast, affordable, and everywhere.
Baikka Beel’s silent collapse
7 February 2026, 00:35 AM
Unheard Voices
Baikka Beel, a wetland now facing a deepening crisis of protection, was officially closed to public access a year ago.
When infrastructure fails women
7 February 2026, 00:31 AM
Unheard Voices
Every year, during the month of October, UN-Habitat encourages us to engage in Urban October—a time for reflection and conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the rapid pace of change in our cities and towns.
Those who remain invisible in Bangladesh’s political imagination
31 January 2026, 01:05 AM
Unheard Voices
The most invisible and unheard communities in Bangladesh include, among others, ethnic communities or adivasis, tea workers,
Priorities for the next government / Bangladesh’s old diplomacy won’t survive new realities
25 January 2026, 04:28 AM
Geopolitical Insights
In the post-July 2024 situation, Bangladesh has been facing several new strategic realities.
Multilateralism in retreat: Will middle powers stand up to bullying?
3 February 2026, 08:00 AM
Geopolitical Insights
As institutional protections weaken, vulnerability grows. Align too closely and autonomy erodes. Resist alone and retaliation becomes costly. This is precisely why the defense of multilateralism cannot remain a Western project. It must include those who rely on it most.
US global dominance and the Donroe Doctrine in the making
20 January 2026, 16:44 PM
Geopolitical Insights
US global dominance has never been accidental. It comes from decades of strategy, adaptation, and the careful linking of finance, energy, military power, technology, maritime control and control over global resource flows.
Is the Venezuela operation part of a US–China power struggle?
8 January 2026, 06:59 AM
Geopolitical Insights
The operation in Venezuela was therefore about more than drugs, oil, or technological prowess.
In Focus / The untold history of why Khaleda Zia entered politics
30 December 2025, 11:53 AM
In Focus
Why did Khaleda Zia, a typical housewife who had become widow at a critical age in terms of Bangladesh's culture, join politics?
In Focus / Nurjahan Begum at 100: A life for women’s voices
25 December 2025, 10:20 AM
In Focus
Begum had to shift from its office from one country to another, witness Partition, Liberation War, change of regimes, change in printing technology, but its editor, Nurjahan Begum, never wavered.
Thoughts on press freedom and about a Dhaka weekly that died without a bang
5 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Big Picture
For an aspiring journalist like myself, there could not have been a better training ground than the East Bengal Times.
Will the next generation speak Kokborok?
21 February 2026, 00:01 AM
Slow Reads Special
At present, Kokborok has very limited written and literary development in Bangladesh.
Hajong and the cost of being unwritten
21 February 2026, 00:01 AM
Slow Reads Special
Official recognition remains vague, often buried under larger language labels.
Preserving the A’chik tongue
21 February 2026, 00:01 AM
Slow Reads Special
For generations, this heritage thrived as an oral masterpiece, surviving without a formal indigenous script.
The last speaker of Saura
21 February 2026, 00:01 AM
Amar Ekushey 2026
When this correspondent visited Saura Palli in Rajghat Union on Monday, the frail elder whispered only a few words in his native tongue: “If I die, the language will die. Please take initiative to save my mother tongue before I die. My identity lives in this language.”