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Rana Foroohar

Consumers of low-income group thronged 'Goriber Bazar' (the market of the poor) at Sutrapur in Old Dhaka on Thursday (05 December 2024) to purchase various essential items in small quantities and at lower prices. The number of consumers in the market, seeking some respite amid sharp price hike of essentials, has been gradually rising. — FE Photo by Shafiqul Alam

Ruchir Sharma

Rana Foroohar

What's behind Paris Olympics cauldron?

As the second anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion approaches, Ukraine's acclaimed novelist Andrey Kurkov reflects on his country's efforts to keep on 'kipping on'

A three-wheeler scooter equipped with 360-degree cameras navigates Dhaka's Mirpur to capture images for Google Street View. These nimble vehicles replace the previously used four-wheeler cars, which struggled to access the city's intricate network of narrow lanes. — FE Photo by KAZ Sumon

Why Timur was worse than his reputation

Untreated industrial waste spews forth from a sewage pipe into the Buriganga River. The photo was taken from Dhaka's Shyampur area. — FE Photo

Huw Pill, Bank of England's chief economist argues that the challenge for the monetary policymaker is to ensure that there is enough persistence in the restriction of monetary policy to bring those components of inflation down.

Sailing boats — once a common sight on the Buriganga River in Dhaka — are now rarely seen. Such boats still ply across the river from Gudara Ghat in Mill Barracks point to Keraniganj's Char Mirerbagh. —FE Photo by Shafiqul Alam

the Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/urumurum/status/1267443163439919104

Was AI right to use our books?

Qui sont les arabes?

A water body has been created close to a railway line in Khilkhet area of the city for the purpose of fish farming, potentially posing a threat to the railway tracks. The photo was taken on Monday (04 September 2023). — FE photo

Should an AI bot making $1m really be the next Turing test?

To keep dengue at bay, a boatman sleeps inside a mosquito net on his boat moored by the bank of Buriganga river in Farashganj area of old Dhaka on Thursday (06 July 2023) morning. — FE photo by Shafiqul Alam