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Bangladesh's startups raised about $435 million in their 2021 peak year and just $6 million in the first half of 2026. This is the story of that full cycle — bKash's unicorn rise, ShopUp's merger into SILQ, the funding winter that left even Chaldal unable to pay salaries, and the state's late, large attempt to build domestic venture capital.
Read MoreBangladesh has built ships for centuries — for sultans, merchants and the Mughal navy — and in 2008 became a modern ship-exporting nation. This is the story of its yards, from Khulna Shipyard and the state docks to Ananda and Western Marine: the export breakthrough, the debt crisis that nearly sank the sector, and the cautious revival under way in 2026.
Read MoreShahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), founded in Sylhet in 1986 as Bangladesh's first science and technology university, grew from 205 students in three departments to a research university of 8,900 students. From its 320-acre Kumargaon campus it pioneered the semester system, text-message admissions and the combined admission test — and still runs its own entrance examination.
Read MoreFounded in 1974 and headquartered at Segunbagicha in Dhaka, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy is the country's national academy of fine and performing arts — home to the National Theatre and National Art Gallery, organiser of the Asian Art Biennale, and, through branches in all 64 districts, the largest public patron of Bangladeshi culture.
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With its diverse portfolio of businesses, strong brand recognition, and commitment to corporate social responsibility, the company is well-positioned to sustain its growth in the future.
On Bangladesh's southern coast, Kuakata is one of the few beaches in the world where the sun both rises and sets over the same sea. Behind its 18 kilometres of sand stands an older story — Rakhine settlers who crossed from Arakan in 1784, dug the wells that named the place, and built its Buddhist temples — and a modern one, of tourism growth on a shoreline being steadily cut away by erosion.
Grameen Bank lends small, collateral-free loans to 10.8 million members — 96.7 percent of them women — who together own 90 percent of the bank itself.
