S M Saif Kader Rubab

Lula da Silva’s victory reveals yet again, how political power increasingly depends not only on winning votes, but on shaping the information environment in which citizens judge candidates, institutions and the legitimacy of democratic outcomes. Brazil’s presidential election has produced a result with implications beyond Latin America. On October 25, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva …

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When one unit of the Adani power plant in Jharkhand went offline this week, Bangladesh did not merely lose several hundred megawatts of electricity. Dhaka was reminded, once again, of a much larger problem; how much of the country’s energy security has come to depend on decisions, fuel supplies and infrastructure beyond its own borders. …

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Image: AI Generated The FY2026-27 national budget points to an important shift in how we think about the economy in Bangladesh. Since the birth of the independent Bangladesh, national economic planning has revolved around manufacturing, infrastructure, agriculture and the ready-made garments. While these industries remain indispensable, the latest budget introduces a different idea altogether, as …

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Image: AI Generated The image is by now familiar, a fragile boat in the Mediterranean, young men packed shoulder to shoulder, somewhere between Libya and Italy. Increasingly and shockingly enough, many of them are Bangladeshi. Over the past decade, Bangladesh has emerged as a significant source of irregular migration to Europe. This is not a …

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