Shafiqul Elahi is a retired government official of Bangladesh. He is pursuing his career in academia after his retirement. He is also currently writing his first book on Institutional Development and Bangladesh.
Shafiqul Elahi is a retired government official of Bangladesh. He is pursuing his career in academia after his retirement. He is also currently writing his first book on Institutional Development and Bangladesh.
Shafiqul Elahi is a retired government official of Bangladesh. He is pursuing his career in academia after his retirement. He is also currently writing his first book on Institutional Development and Bangladesh.
Finally, on Jan 30, 2023, Bangladesh successfully secured loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). For the last seven months since July 2022, intense...
Bangladesh and the United States share a history of long-standing bilateral relations. Since the US recognition of Bangladesh's independence in 1972, the bilateral tie...
Almost all developed countries have their own schemes worldwide to share their economic might with the developing and least developed countries. Such schemes are...
On Sept. 21, the United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearance (WGEID) published its annual report. It was the 128th session of...
Labor force plays a crucial role in Bangladesh’s development as the economy is labor intensive and still bottom-heavy. Workers are considered the human resources...
As a neighboring state and liberation wartime ally, Bangladesh considers its relationship with India to be inscribed in blood and difficult to break. To...
Aug. 25 marks the 5 years of the Rohingya crisis. On 25th August 2017, Myanmar Military launched its inhumane 'Clearance Operation' against the Rohingya...
The U.N. high commissioner for human rights concluded her 4-day visit to Bangladesh on Aug. 17 afternoon with a press conference. Michelle Bachelet is...
The map isn’t the war. Ukraine is fighting systems—power grids, drones, attrition. Russia leads this phase by compounding pressure, not breakthroughs. Outcome still contested, but arithmetic, not headlines, is deciding January 2026.
Bangladesh may be seeing a rare shift: from who rules to how to govern. Jamaat-e-Islami’s Policy Summit 2026 outlines a knowledge economy, digital anti-corruption tools, and welfare reforms—but can vision survive execution?
In icy Greenland, great-power politics thaw old colonial instincts. As Washington talks force, Nuuk answers identity: not American, not Danish—Greenlandic. The Arctic’s “trillion-dollar ocean” risks reviving the law of the jungle.
Maduro’s capture signals a grim shift: power over law. From Venezuela to Gaza and Ukraine, force is normalised, sovereignty erodes, and multilateral institutions hollow out—ushering a dangerous might-makes-right world order.
Sanctions revived Russia’s Far East as a pivot to Asia, but China ties remain extractive. Without diversification—energy, digital, tourism—the region risks staying a resource periphery, not a Northeast Asian gateway.
