Measuring the Immeasurable: What the Corruption Perceptions Index Actually Tells Us

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Measuring the Immeasurable: What the Corruption Perceptions Index Actually Tells Us

Few global rankings stir as much domestic unease in Bangladesh as the annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), published by Transparency International and given local reach through Transparency International Bangladesh. The index sets out to estimate perceived levels of public sector corruption across 182 countries, relying on expert assessments and business surveys rather than any direct…

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Economy & Policy Governance

The Guitarist Who Taught Bangladesh to Rock: Remembering Ayub Bachchu

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The Guitarist Who Taught Bangladesh to Rock: Remembering Ayub Bachchu

Every year on 16 August, Bangladesh pauses to honour a man whose guitar strings carried the restlessness, heartbreak, and hope of an entire generation. Ayub Bachchu, known simply as AB, was born in 1962 in Patiya, Chattogram, and passed away on 18 October 2018, yet he remains the country’s most enduring rock icon. He was…

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Art, Literature, History & National Heritage

China-Bangladesh Vocational Training Collaboration: Prospects and Caveats

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China-Bangladesh Vocational Training Collaboration: Prospects and Caveats

The memorandum of understanding signed between Bangladesh and China on August 27 to establish a joint vocational education, training, and research centre carries both promise and peril in equal measure. The agreement, formalised at the China Bangladesh Education Exchange Conference in Jiangxi province, envisages cooperation across vocational training programmes, bilingual teaching materials, industry education integration,…

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Education

The Hidden Bottleneck: How Credit, Banking, and Legal Gaps Are Choking Bangladesh’s Gas Imports

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The Hidden Bottleneck: How Credit, Banking, and Legal Gaps Are Choking Bangladesh’s Gas Imports

When Summit LNG Terminal ran dry on a Thursday afternoon in August 2026, the immediate story was a stalled cargo and a nation gasping for gas. The deeper story, largely absent from public discussion, is why that cargo was delayed in the first place.  Bangladesh buys much of its liquefied natural gas on the volatile…

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Trade, Commerce & Industry

Two BNP Terms, Two Visions: Comparing Bangladesh’s Current Sustainable Agriculture Plan with the Party’s Last Stint in Power

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Two BNP Terms, Two Visions: Comparing Bangladesh’s Current Sustainable Agriculture Plan with the Party’s Last Stint in Power

Bangladesh’s current sustainable agriculture roadmap, built around diversification away from rice monoculture, climate smart farming, land tenure reform, and stronger market infrastructure, arrives under a BNP led government. It is worth asking how this vision compares with the party’s own record the last time it held office, under Prime Minister Khaleda Zia between 2001 and…

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Agriculture

In Bangladesh, health is wealth or wealth is health?

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In Bangladesh, health is wealth or wealth is health?

The old adage declares that health is wealth, suggesting that wellbeing itself is the greatest asset a person can possess. In Bangladesh, the relationship inverts with brutal clarity: wealth is the prerequisite for health, and the absence of it is a slow sentence to inadequate treatment, delayed diagnosis, and preventable suffering.  The question is not…

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Health

Pornography, Policy, and the Bangladeshi Dilemma: Law, Mental Health, and the Limits of Prohibition

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Pornography, Policy, and the Bangladeshi Dilemma: Law, Mental Health, and the Limits of Prohibition

Bangladesh’s legal position on pornography is unambiguous on paper. The Pornography Control Act of 2012 criminalizes the production, distribution, and possession of pornographic content, treating it as an offence against public morality and family values. The Information and Communication Technology Act and its successor cyber security legislation extend this prohibition into the digital domain, criminalizing…

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Humanity, Social Welfare, Human Rights & Happiness

Journalism in Bangladesh: A Chosen Smart Profession or a Path Driven Only by Passion?

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Journalism in Bangladesh: A Chosen Smart Profession or a Path Driven Only by Passion?

Ask a young graduate in Dhaka why they entered journalism, and the answer rarely mentions salary security or career prestige. It is almost always framed as calling, a desire to speak truth to power, to give voice to the voiceless. That framing captures something real about Bangladeshi journalism, but it also conceals an uncomfortable truth:…

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Media, Publishing & Digital Dissemination

The Himalayas Flood and Threats for Bangladesh

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The Himalayas Flood and Threats for Bangladesh

The Bhotekoshi catastrophe of August 26, which claimed over 1000 lives and left more than 4,000 missing in Nepal’s Himalayan corridors, is not merely a national tragedy for one upstream country. For Bangladesh, it is a geographical alarm bell of the highest order. The same rivers that carried that fury of ice, rock, and debris…

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Sustainability & Urban Planning

Beyond the Blame Game: Political Bias, Public Trust, and the Path to Safer Communities in Bangladesh

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Beyond the Blame Game: Political Bias, Public Trust, and the Path to Safer Communities in Bangladesh

For much of the past two decades, Bangladesh’s response to social and humanity crimes, including violence against women, trafficking, mob violence, and communal unrest, has been filtered through a political lens before it has been filtered through a justice lens. Cases involving ruling party affiliates were often slow-walked, investigations were shaped by who held power…

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Law & Local Governance
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