Transboundary rivers treaty: Crucial for our future
15 January 2026, 14:40 PM
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Why we must rethink how we think about the future
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Ten tasks for future Bangladesh
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
A transition from ‘Ageism’ to ‘Agevism’
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Rural lives on the move: Why Bangladesh must rethink rural–urban migration
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
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Key challenges to attaining the first demographic dividend
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
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From girl brides to a broken labour market
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Toxic waste in our rivers: Stop this threat immediately
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Can the Barind Tract survive its own agricultural success?
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
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National sovereignty in the climatic age
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
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Turning youth into our greatest economic strength — Can we?
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Our 'demographic dividend' at risk: Help the NEET generation urgently
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
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Princess’s journey and the promise of skilled migration
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
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Gender violence and Bangladesh's future
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
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From siltation to toxic pollution: Coastal water problems
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
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Towards a 'just transition' in the labour market: Rights, gender and environment
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
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No river, no dream
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
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Fail to save rivers, and we fail to save ourselves
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
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Bangladesh’s ‘miracle’ running out of time?
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
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Managing water is like managing life: Time to rethink urgently
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
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Editor's Note / People and rivers will shape our tomorrow
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Transboundary rivers treaty: Crucial for our future
The Ganges Treaty does not have a guarantee clause to ensure the discharge of the agreed-upon amount of water at Farakka Barrage to Bangladesh.
15 January 2026, 14:40 PM
From girl brides to a broken labour market
Her mother notices stolen glances at Fatema from nearby houses, which fills her with unease. Fearful that something “unholy” might happen to the girl, she decides to marry the teenager off instead of helping her prepare for the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations.
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Key challenges to attaining the first demographic dividend
The demographic dividend is the accelerated economic growth resulting from declines in fertility and mortality and the subsequent change in the age structure of a country’s population.
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
People and rivers will shape our tomorrow
This special supplement examines these twin realities with care and urgency.
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Rural lives on the move: Why Bangladesh must rethink rural–urban migration
Since independence, rural–urban migration has shaped the socioeconomic landscape of Bangladesh.
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Managing water is like managing life: Time to rethink urgently
The popular notion has been that we have surplus water. But Bangladesh presents a paradoxical situation.
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Ten tasks for future Bangladesh
Bangladesh has turned a page in its political history and a new phase of political governments is about to start.
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Bangladesh’s ‘miracle’ running out of time?
For nearly 50 years, Bangladesh has been one of the world’s favourite outliers. Born in the trauma of 1971 with a shattered economy and a population of 75 million, the country was summarily dismissed as a “basket case.”
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Why we must rethink how we think about the future
When we try to envision, conceive, and plan for our priorities for tomorrow, we inevitably, and often unwillingly, submit ourselves to the concept and implications of the dominant paradigm of temporality in our lives.
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Fail to save rivers, and we fail to save ourselves
Our country is a riverine land. Rivers are deeply intertwined with the very formation of this land. Yet, even today, the definition of a river has not been finalised in Bangladesh.
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
A transition from ‘Ageism’ to ‘Agevism’
With a population (rising from 75 million in 1971 to 169.4 million in 2021) intensity of 1,119 people per square kilometre (BBS, 2023), Bangladesh is among the most densely populated countries in the world, ranking as the eighth-most populous nation globally.
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
No river, no dream
Kazi Khaleed Ashraf (KKA): River-realm or river-sphere, or, in a technical sense, river ecology, has been a recurring topic in our many conversations.
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Towards a 'just transition' in the labour market: Rights, gender and environment
The labour market worldwide is going through major transformations driven by climate change.
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
From siltation to toxic pollution: Coastal water problems
The rivers and canals of Bangladesh are being made to die. Bangladesh is a country of water, where land and water are entwined and ever shifting.
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Gender violence and Bangladesh's future
Gender-based violence (GBV) remains prevalent and significant in Bangladesh, deeply rooted in our patriarchal norms, despite notable progress in overall economic and political participation over the decades since our liberation.
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Princess’s journey and the promise of skilled migration
When I first met Princess, she was sitting cross-legged on the floor of a tiny concrete room in Davao City on Mindanao island in southern Philippines, her notebook open to a page covered in neat rows of Japanese hiragana.
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Can the Barind Tract survive its own agricultural success?
Stand in the middle of the High Barind in late April, and you are standing on one of the most geologically distinct surfaces in Bangladesh.
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Turning youth into our greatest economic strength — Can we?
The greatest wealth of a nation is neither its geographical size, nor its natural resources, but its skilled young human resources.
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
National sovereignty in the climatic age
In the recent reform efforts initiated by the interim government, significant attention has been paid to elections, electoral politics, and fundamental rights, yet a critical question remains largely unaddressed:
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Toxic waste in our rivers: Stop this threat immediately
Globally, the boundary for biogeochemical flows of natural nutrient cycles, mainly nitrogen and phosphorus, through activities such as fertiliser use and sewage discharge from freshwater to the ocean has already passed a safe operating space for humanity.
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM