Mohiuddin Alamgir

The new textbooks for primary and secondary students will now state that Ziaur Rahman declared the independence of Bangladesh in 1971.

The National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) has published fifth grade textbooks with wrong names of July uprising martyrs.

At a time when nearly the entire mainstream music industry remained eerily silent, two rappers, Hannan Hossain Shimul and Muhammad Shezan, stood out as voices of defiance and etched their names into text books.

The Election Commission has said it will verify the information of the country's 12.36 crore voters ahead of the next national election -- a decision the BNP terms absurd.

The Electoral Reform Commission is likely to refrain from recommending a proportional representation system, ignoring the proposal of most political parties.

During the July uprising, when most mainstream musicians in the country remained silent against oppression by the Awami League regime, two independent

In a dramatic turn of events, Maayer Daak—a platform campaigning against enforced disappearances—has found a place in the eighth grade English textbook after years of being harassed by the previous Awami League regime.

With their mass rallies and processions, slogans and posters echoing the will of their electorate, Bangladesh's political parties project an air of vibrant democracy on the surface. Yet behind the scenes, democracy ends where leadership begins. Power is concentrated in the hands of a few, and internal democracy is a distant mirage.

Dynastic politics, personality cults plague Bangladesh's political parties.

The student-led mass uprising in Bangladesh in 2024 that ousted the autocratic regime of Sheikh Hasina has already ushered in significant changes in higher education institutions, for students in particular. However, broader reforms involving sector-wide changes seem likely to take longer.