Traffic mobility in Dhaka City has long been a cause for concern. It has an average speed of 4.8 to 6.4 kilometre per hour--- almost same as the walking speed. Due to this slow speed of vehicles on city roads, the annual loss in productivity stands approximately at $6.5 billion. The problems are kn
It is common knowledge that any household's general tendency is to spend less than what it earns. But when the expenditures to meet basic necessities like housing, food, transports, healthcare, taxes, etc., exceed earnings, the household in question cannot save. If the pattern of less income than e
At a time when automobiles emit roughly 3.5 to 3.8 billion metric tons of CO2 globally, the urgency of transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is quite evident. The emission accounts for nearly 10 per cent of all energy-related exhaust fumes and 7.0 per cent of greenhouse gas (GHG). In Bangladesh, th
A survey conducted by the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) titled 'Corruption in Service Sectors: The National Household Survey 2025' has once again brought to light the alarming prevalence of corruption in the country. The survey gathered households' experiences with 18 public service s
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman is back home after a six-day trip to Malaysia and China, marking the first overseas tour of his tenure. The China leg ran from June 22 to 26 and carried him through meetings including with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang. These meetings culminating in the rel
The closure of hundreds of industrial units over the past two years presents a deeply troubling picture for Bangladesh's economy. Beyond the immediate decline in industrial production and export performance, the phenomenon has left thousands of workers unemployed, disrupted supply chains, and weake
Almost a decade ago, Bangladesh Railway launched a 30-year master plan to expand rail coverage to all 64 districts of the country and modernise its services. The master plan included a total of 230 projects scheduled to be implemented by 2045 in six phases at a cost of Taka 5.53 trillion. As
As high as 62 per cent of Bangladesh population lives in the countryside. Strangely, 75 per cent of its doctors and nurses serve the urban residents, who make up only 38 per cent of the population. Evidently, the statistics provided by Bangladesh 'Health Workforce Strategy 2024' of the Ministry of
When investment in the industrial sector is hard to come by, asking for outlays for revival of sick or closed state-owned enterprises (SOEs) sounds rather paradoxical. Time and again, such initiatives have caused waste of funds. The reason why such moves have ended in failures is more political tha
The country's banking sector continues to make screaming headlines. Recent media reports inform that, by the end of 2025, distressed loans across all scheduled banks had surged by more than 47 per cent to Tk 10.08 trillion --- an amount that exceeds the size of the proposed national budget for the
