10+ hour, 14+ min ago   (895+ words) Netra News identified six unauthorised sawmills and 32 operating on expired licences in the district, where a 2023 forest law has gone unenforced for want of staff and vehicles Loggers have cut down century-old trees across a 50-acre community forest in Bandarban…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1436+ words) Corporate employees describe workplaces marked by severe forms of exploitation. Yet the struggles of white-collar workers often remain invisible, rarely entering the public discourse. Gulshan-2 intersection. At dusk, the glass monoliths of multinational corporations and a cross-section of Bangladesh’s corporate…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1755+ words) After the Awami League-led government was toppled in August 2024, a wave of orchestrated assaults on bauls, darbars and mazars swept through Bangladesh. The community under attack believed an elected government would put an end to the violence. However, a murder…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1671+ words) When Eastern Refinery ran out of crude in April 2026, the country was left short of fuel. The plant meant to prevent exactly that has been stalled for more than a decade. In April 2026, Bangladesh’s only state-owned crude oil refinery stopped…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1493+ words) In Bangladesh, attackers send, delete and report Messenger texts, disabling Facebook accounts — at times — before victims even open the inbox. Zyma Islam was ordering chicken online when the notification appeared. It was a message request from an account calling itself…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (463+ words) Bangladesh’s new prime minister went to China before he went to India. Nearly everything he brought home had been promised, signed or said before. Smruti S Pattanaik is a research fellow at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (609+ words) Bangladesh’s new government appears ready to absorb external pressure as it deepens strategic ties with China and pursues an eastern route to industrialisation and modernisation. Liu Zongyi is the Director of the Center for South Asia Studies at the Shanghai…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1230+ words) Analysis shows family-linked politicians have risen sharply, with dynasties appearing in more than half of Bangladesh’s 300 parliamentary seats across the elections studied. K.M. Obaidur Rahman, a BNP politician who built the party’s base in Faridpur, has been dead for years....

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (500+ words) We stripped out the provisions that let ruling party politicians jail their critics. Four months on, the arrests have come anyway — not under the new law, but in defiance of it. Anik is a former policy analyst at the Information…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (998+ words) The newly-elected government’s flagship welfare programme designed for the poorest is helping some people but excluding others, and nobody is fully sure why. On March 10th this year, Ayesha Akter walked from her home in Dhaka’s Korail slum to a nearby…...