In recent times, the BNP has demanded an early December 2025 election

There is an urgent need for an announcement on a deadline for the election.

As Bangladesh seeks to recalibrate its path in the aftermath of recent upheavals, the time is ripe to revisit an oft-invoked but under-examined agenda: institutional reform. Institutions are crucial to understand, as they are foundational for governance, transformation, and economic development.

One cannot claim to be anti-Hasina while displaying the same defining characteristics as our former prime minister.

What started as a moment of hope—a chance to break free from the chains of authoritarian rule—has increasingly turned into a struggle for meaningful reform.

Reform proposes "pluralism" over "secularism," but without a framework, it's unworkable.

Investing in public health ensures stability, resilience, and long-term growth.

BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman has urged party leaders and activists to work for the implementation of its 31-point reform outline.

Bangladesh is presented with an unprecedented opportunity to reconfigure and functionalise its institutions and processes.

Public and media discourse overwhelmingly favours the idea of a reform commission for education.

It feels wrong in myriad ways to say that hope isn’t there when an autocrat fell

Historically, revolutions often begin with an unified call for justice, equality, and change.

Examining Bangladesh's challenges in supporting survivors of gender-based violence.

Leadership failures are most apparent when decisions exacerbate inequality, suppress free expression, and sustain inefficiencies.

The government needs to set in place irreversible principles and practices that constrain arbitrary power in the future leading to the misuse of popular consent.

As Bangladesh enters a new era following the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government, which ruled over the nation for 15 years and is responsible for countless financial wrongdoings, the need of the hour is to reform the overall system of governance.

Now that the dust is starting to settle down, there are growing calls for reforms across the nation.

Dr Yunus outlined five strategic arenas for reform: the Election Commission (EC), judiciary, civil administration, security forces, and media.

The halls had been transformed into places where ordinary students faced heavy oppression.

In the past regime, there was investment in books that only served a certain coterie, championing a certain narrative.