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The first Doppler poll suggests that the government's political position remains reasonably strong. Two different national surveys, conducted through different methodologies, place government approval at almost the same level. That convergence deserves recognition. Photo Credit: Shutterstock Bangladesh has entered a political period in which opinion polling carries greater significance than before.

Bangladesh is training more young people, but the economy is not creating enough jobs to absorb them. The result is a growing gap between skills development and meaningful employment. Photo Credit: Shutterstock Bangladesh has spent years treating youth unemployment as a skills problem. The prescription has been familiar: Train young people, give them certificates, provide loans, encourage entrepreneurship and send them into the labour market.

Destruction is useful only when it contributes to the political end. If overwhelming military force cannot produce that end at an acceptable cost, battlefield superiority becomes strategically insufficient. Photo Credit: Shutterstock War is often judged by the wrong arithmetic. We count missiles fired, aircraft destroyed, targets struck, sorties flown, and installations damaged -- and then declare a winner. But war is not an equation in which the side with the larger number automatically wins.

By choosing Mirza Alamgir, the Prime Minister has placed institutional credibility above other considerations, and in doing so has strengthened the constitutional order his government is charged with restoring. Photo Credit: Shutterstock On August 20, the Bangladeshi Parliament is expected to elect Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as the 23rd President of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.

The government deserves credit for recognizing that women’s mobility is inseparable from women’s participation in work, education, and public life. But the measure will succeed only if it is accompanied by a broader change in how we think about public space. The government’s decision to introduce women-only pink buses in Dhaka is a welcome one. The initiative, which will be operated entirely by women, is meant to make public transport safer and more comfortable for women commuters.

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The scholarship will be awarded annually to one female student and will remain valid for the duration of the A Level programme, subject to satisfactory academic performance and conduct. At a time when more Bangladeshi girls are excelling academically, a new scholarship initiative is seeking to ensure that outstanding performance is not limited by financial circumstances.

The silence at dawn in Tipra Para is not the silence of an empty forest. It is the quiet of a community whose presence has survived successive rounds of leases, surveys, forest classifications and conservation measures. At the heart of Satchari, in northeastern Bangladesh, lies a community whose longstanding relationship with the land remains difficult for the law to recognise.

Perhaps we have placed shame in the wrong place. We shamed the body instead of violence. We questioned the survivor instead of the aggressor. We taught embarrassment where we should have taught consent. And we said: Hush. We do not speak of these things. Photo Credit: Shutterstock I keep stopping as I write this. Some truths are difficult not only because they are private, but because returning to them means sitting face to face with a much younger version of yourself.

Dhaka has deepened military ties with Turkey while normalizing relations with Pakistan. This commitment towards strategic autonomy unsettles security planners in New Delhi, who view the accumulation of these moves as a potential erosion of Indian influence in the Bay of Bengal. Photo Credit: Shutterstock In late July 2026, Bangladesh quietly attached its name to a Saudi-led multinational maritime defense alliance covering the Red Sea, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and the Gulf of Aden.