Skip to main content
Home
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Main navigation

  • Home
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Slow Reads
  • Sports
  • Business
  • Feature
    • Lifestyle
    • Showbiz
    • Campus
    • My Dhaka
    • Rising Star
    • Satireday
    • Books & Literature
    • In Focus
    • Shift
    • Star Youth
    • Toggle
  • More
    • Books & Literature
    • Country News
    • Environment
    • Law & Our Rights
    • NRB
    • Supplements
    • Youth
  • E-paper
  • Today’s News
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
  • E-paper
  • Today’s News
  • News
    • National
    • International
    • Economy
    • Politics
  • Opinion
    • Editorials
    • Columns
    • Letters to the Editor
  • Business
    • Banking
    • Corporate News
    • Stock Market
  • Lifestyle
    • Fashion

Zillur Rahman

Trump, trade wars, tariffs, and a new world order

The US president's overarching policies regarding trade and foreign affairs has not altered since his first term.
19 March 2025, 06:00 AM

Is the pendulum swinging too fast between left, centre and right?

With the fall of the autocratic Awami League regime, our differences have once again surfaced.
6 February 2025, 02:00 AM

Beyond the war of ideals: Bangladesh must be governed with pragmatism

What Bangladesh needs right now is justice and a path to healing.
6 December 2024, 03:00 AM

India, US both need a stable Bangladesh

However, regardless of the nature of international involvement, the ultimate responsibility for a stable Bangladesh lies with its own people.
25 September 2024, 03:00 AM

Misinformation campaigns and the future of Bangladesh-India relations

Many verified accounts on X are reporting rumours as actual news and sometimes just outright propagating fake news.
11 August 2024, 15:00 PM

An entity showing serious cracks

Whatever progressive image the ruling party had tried to build for itself has been severely fractured
28 July 2024, 02:00 AM

Freedom vs prosperity: A rehash of the development vs democracy debate

The declining freedoms identified in the report once again give a clear indication that the consecutive governments of Bangladesh, from multiple political parties, have repeatedly failed to empower the country's people.
23 May 2024, 01:00 AM

Our civil society needs to do more to challenge power structures

Over the last year, human rights defenders, demonstrators, and dissenters have been met with harassment, physical aggression, detainment, and maltreatment by the authorities.
25 April 2024, 01:00 AM

Trump, trade wars, tariffs, and a new world order

The US president's overarching policies regarding trade and foreign affairs has not altered since his first term.
19 March 2025, 06:00 AM

Is the pendulum swinging too fast between left, centre and right?

With the fall of the autocratic Awami League regime, our differences have once again surfaced.
6 February 2025, 02:00 AM

Beyond the war of ideals: Bangladesh must be governed with pragmatism

What Bangladesh needs right now is justice and a path to healing.
6 December 2024, 03:00 AM

India, US both need a stable Bangladesh

However, regardless of the nature of international involvement, the ultimate responsibility for a stable Bangladesh lies with its own people.
25 September 2024, 03:00 AM

Misinformation campaigns and the future of Bangladesh-India relations

Many verified accounts on X are reporting rumours as actual news and sometimes just outright propagating fake news.
11 August 2024, 15:00 PM

An entity showing serious cracks

Whatever progressive image the ruling party had tried to build for itself has been severely fractured
28 July 2024, 02:00 AM

Freedom vs prosperity: A rehash of the development vs democracy debate

The declining freedoms identified in the report once again give a clear indication that the consecutive governments of Bangladesh, from multiple political parties, have repeatedly failed to empower the country's people.
23 May 2024, 01:00 AM

Our civil society needs to do more to challenge power structures

Over the last year, human rights defenders, demonstrators, and dissenters have been met with harassment, physical aggression, detainment, and maltreatment by the authorities.
25 April 2024, 01:00 AM

Walking a tightrope or walking the plank?

Bangladesh has kicked off the year with the first of many important national elections to be held around the world.
14 February 2024, 18:00 PM

Misinformation and disinformation: A threat to democracy in Bangladesh

In today’s digital age, the spread of misinformation and disinformation has arisen as a major challenge to global democracy.
9 February 2024, 14:00 PM

Bangladesh-India relations: An increasingly complicated friendship

Both Bangladeshis and Indians need to understand that they need each other in order to thrive.
12 December 2023, 01:00 AM

Crackdown, groupthink, and the dialogue that didn’t happen

How many of us really believe that the current laws and institutions in Bangladesh lend the capacity to hold free and fair elections?
15 November 2023, 14:00 PM

The new CSA: A draconian law made more ‘efficient’

A casual look into the draft CSA will prove that the optimism expressed by the law minister is entirely unfounded
24 August 2023, 03:00 AM

Violence cannot be the only language of politics

Unfortunately, our history so far shows that major political shifts have only occurred as a result of violent uprisings on the streets.
1 August 2023, 13:10 PM

Was the US visa policy against undemocratic actors necessary?

The message between the lines is that the US is keeping a very close eye on Bangladesh at the moment.
30 May 2023, 03:00 AM

What’s our priority in the Indo-Pacific Outlook?

A primary analysis of the outlook confirms the various speculations that Bangladesh would not be tilting West and would remain adamant about its foreign policy ideal of non-alignment.
9 May 2023, 17:00 PM

So long as DSA exists, free and fair elections are impossible

Whether or not Bangladesh can salvage its image as a democracy will entirely depend on how the next election is conducted.
27 April 2023, 17:00 PM

Can the US Eagle Fly to Bangladesh?

In the landscape of world power rivalries, Bangladesh has somehow found itself in a dangerous and opportune position.
18 February 2023, 02:00 AM

Infrastructure diplomacy in the context of South Asia and Bangladesh

For a developing country, geopolitics is almost always a losing game.
2 January 2023, 14:00 PM

Gagging young voices: The unreasonable nature of our digital laws

As it stands now, any person whom law enforcement authorities deem to have breached the DSA will be arrested without a warrant.
4 October 2022, 15:00 PM

Pagination

  • Show more
Home
Journalism without fear or favour
Follow Us

Footer

  • Home
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Sports
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Life and Living
  • Youth
  • Tech and Startup
  • Multimedia
  • Features
© 2025 thedailystar.net | Powered by: RSI Lab