Bangladesh's official jobless numbers look, on the surface, unremarkable. The youth unemployment rate stood at around 9.4 per cent in 2025, comfortably below the global average of nearly 16 per cent, according to World Bank data. Read in isolation, that figure suggests a country coping reasonably w

It starts with a WhatsApp message from someone you trust - a cousin, a former classmate, a respected figure from the masjid. “Brother, this is fully halal. No riba. The returns are 20 per cent a month. I have already got my first payout.” You do the maths. Twenty per cent a month is 240

Walk into any co-working space in on a given Tuesday morning, and you will overhear roughly the same conversation. Someone is describing a clever prompt they wrote to get ChatGPT to summarise a report or circumvent a limitation for research and whatnot. Someone else is sharing a screenshot of an AI

For much of the past decade, platforms such as Fiverr and Upwork were celebrated as the great democratisers of global labour. A graphic designer in Rangpur, a copywriter in Lagos, or a data entry clerk in Manila could compete on equal footing for the same client in London or Los Angeles. The model

To the newly elected party, Your victory in February 2026 carries a mandate that extends far beyond partisan politics. The students who stood in the streets during July 2024 did not risk their lives for cosmetic change or a mere rotation of parties. They demanded the dismantling of a system that h

There is a scene in the 2023 award winning Indian film 12th Fail that captures something profoundly wrong with South Asian education systems. In a small school in Chambal, teachers openly facilitate cheating during board examinations, a practice that students expect, parents demand, and the system

Since late 2023, the way young people interact with the internet has changed drastically. The shift has moved from seeking information to demanding instant answers. LLM-based AI applications like ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, and Gemini have transformed user behaviou—today's youths no longer wan

The artificial intelligence race has declared its winners at the foundation level. Companies such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are currently leading the frontier LLM and other model space with billions in capital and computational resources. For countries like ours, Bangladesh, the target shoul