Amid a global oil crisis brewing because of growing tensions between Russia and the EU and the US over oil supply and oil prices, Bangladesh should immediately get into negotiations with energy-exporting countries to come up with arrangements that are favourable for the country.
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Aluk Fontaine Richardson talks about her experience of learning about the Indigenous people of CHT and how their plight relates to that of the Indigenous people of Canada.
After buying a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter and becoming its biggest shareholder, Elon Musk announced an offer last week to buy the company for USD 54.20 per share, in cash.
Dr Manzoor Ahmed, professor emeritus at Brac University and vice-chair of the Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE) Council, talks to Eresh Omar Jamal of The Daily Star about a new book, of which he is a co-author, on the political economy of education in South Asia.
Stefania Maurizi is an investigative journalist working for the Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano. She has worked on all WikiLeaks releases of secret documents and partnered with Glenn Greenwald to expose the Snowden Files about Italy.
Dr Iftekharuzzaman, executive director of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), speaks to Eresh Omar Jamal of The Daily Star about the discrimination faced by marginalised communities and the rise of fundamentalism in Bangladesh.
Dr Badiul Alam Majumdar is global vice-president and country director, The Hunger Project, and secretary of Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan). In this interview with Eresh Omar Jamal of The Daily Star, he talks about the constitutional obligation of formulating a law to establish the Election Commission and why politicians so far have ignored it.
The ongoing pandemic has caused huge economic losses for the world. In 2020, growth in South Asia contracted by 5.4 percent, which does not capture the whole story of how terribly its people have actually suffered—but it is an indicator of how the region has struggled over the last year.
In late last March, the World Bank said in a report that South Asia is expected to grow by 7.2 percent this year and that the expansion will be driven mainly by Bangladesh and India. This expectation was predicated on the "success of South Asian nations in containing" the virus. Less than a month after the WB's bold prediction, both India and Bangladesh are now again struggling to contain the spread of the virus, making the WB's prediction look premature and optimistic at present.