By M. Rahman, PhD, Adviser, Dhaka Straits Times, Battery-operated three-wheelers have become a common sight across Bangladesh, easing short-distance travel but creating significant traffic chaos and frequent accidents. With around 4 million such vehicles nationwide—half of them in Dhaka alone—their
By DST’s Editorial Team, The aspiration emerging from the 2024 student–people’s uprising is unmistakable: a corruption-free, justice-based state system. Yet recent findings suggest that this goal remains distant. According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics’ Citizen Perception Survey 2025, nearly
DST News: Voters trickled to polling stations across Myanmar on Sunday as the ruling military pressed ahead with heavily restricted elections, portraying them as a return to democracy five years after seizing power in a coup that plunged the country
DST News: More than one million homes in and around Kyiv lost electricity after Russian missile strikes hit the region, Ukrainian energy company DTEK said on Saturday. The company said the capital experienced widespread outages following a large-scale attack on
DST News: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner SM Sazzat Ali has vowed to identify and prosecute everyone involved in the killing of Inqilab Mancha spokesperson Sharif Osman Bin Hadi, describing the case as complex and involving multiple actors. Addressing a
Bangladesh has learned to ask questions and to demand answers. That new confidence has proven deeply unsettling for India. Long accustomed to asserting dominance under the guise of friendship, Delhi now finds it difficult to accept a neighbor that no
