Interviews

Interviews

Junaid Rahman at Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed Park. Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain

How Shahabuddin Park became a centrepiece of Dhaka’s park movement

The Dhaka North City Corporation assigned the management of Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed Park to a private company - 5R Securex Consortium - a year and half back. Junaid Rahman, its CEO, discusses the...

Deeba Giannoulis. Sketch: TBS

'US eyes top exporter position in Bangladesh's growing soybean market'

Arup Haider, head of Retail Banking at City Bank

'City Bank's foreign currency acc holders to enjoy lifetime free maintenance'

BRAC Executive Director Asif Saleh. Sketch: TBS

BRAC is continually innovating: Asif Saleh

Bangladesh has developed a total of 20 varieties of upland cotton. Photo: K Islam, Cotton Development Board

‘Bangladesh can never be self-sufficient in cotton, but plans have been devised to increase production’

Photo: Courtesy

Nazmus D Shams: Meet the man transforming the country’s wedding industry

About 80% of Asif’s body is paralysed, leaving him bound to a wheelchair. But that did not hold him back. Photo: Courtesy

Turning tragedy to strength

Education Minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel. Sketch: TBS

'First priority will be completing unfinished projects'

TBS Sketch

‘Furniture export climate not the best it can be’

Michael Kugelman, the Director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center, Washington, US. Sketch: TBS

'Washington increasingly views its relationship with Dhaka through the lens of great power rivalry'

China is an Asian superpower but is ageing fast. By 2040, one-third of China’s population will be over age 60. Photo: Reuters

'Africa can be the new China this century'

Ichiguchi Tomohide, chief representative of Jica in Dhaka. Sketch: TBS

Japanese volunteers to contribute in disaster management, food safety: Jica chief in Dhaka

Sketch of Touhid Hossain. Illustration; TBS

Can any party claim they never accepted such 'interference' before?