Rethinking Bangladesh’s Start-up Ecosystem Through Youth-Led Research
Bangladesh’s universities are churning out more and more start-ups. Jam-packed demo days and booming business plan competitions often spark celebration on social media.
Analysis and diverse perspectives on politics, the economy, society and world affairs.
Bangladesh’s universities are churning out more and more start-ups. Jam-packed demo days and booming business plan competitions often spark celebration on social media.
Discussion of every dimension of the 12 February election will require the passage of time.
It is 30 May 1977. I am sitting in the school field of a remote village in Barishal. Noon is slowly approaching.
Even before the aftertaste faded of arrangements for Tarique Rahman’s regal return, of not only Begum Zia’s funeral being held after long preparation,…
The final days of 2025 passed without dramatic escalation in the Rohingya crisis.
I watched Dipu Das’s death on that night, thanks to social media. I cannot say for certain whether I felt pain.
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said, “The country is heading into targeted killings.”
In the Rohingya camps and scattered diasporic pockets, the war in Rakhine is now experienced through short clips and forwarded messages.
The Fiction of a Governed State On paper, Rakhine appears to be a state under an identifiable authority, with the military government in Naypyidaw issuing administrative decrees, controlling borders, and signing agreements with Bangladesh.
Eight years on, Cox’s Bazar runs on routine, not alarms. The Rohingya do not move at random.
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