Column by Mahfuz Anam / Yunus, Charter, and Our Future
23 October 2025, 18:30 PM
Can Trump’s Gaza ceasefire redefine peace in Middle East?
23 October 2025, 14:00 PM
The dilemma triangle of our tertiary education
23 October 2025, 07:00 AM
MIND THE GAP / A bitter brew: Climate change and the decline of Sylhet’s tea gardens
23 October 2025, 06:00 AM
Ports for private profit or national progress?
23 October 2025, 03:00 AM
New data regulations warrant urgent rethinking
22 October 2025, 06:29 AM
Opinion / 'Apnar Orna Koi?': How identity politics targets women
22 October 2025, 06:00 AM
Opinion / Uniforms do not outrank the constitution
22 October 2025, 04:00 AM
National Road Safety Day / ‘Road deaths cannot be reduced without BRTA reform’
22 October 2025, 03:00 AM
The unfinished revolution for women's political rights
23 October 2025, 04:00 AM
Algorithm of apathy: 16 deaths that didn’t trend
Mirpur factory fire exposes selective outrage and curated indifference
18 October 2025, 14:33 PM
Why the Chattogram port tariff hike looks more like value extraction
It cannot be viewed as a simple price adjustment.
18 October 2025, 14:00 PM
When waste meets AI, resources are better managed
Bangladesh can experiment with AI-waste management as it has the institutional framework.
18 October 2025, 07:00 AM
Mirpur fire is a lethal alliance of corporate greed and state negligence
Industrial negligence is not fate—it is failure, and failure must bear a cost.
18 October 2025, 04:16 AM
When teachers are attacked and workers die, who takes responsibility?
The teacher's protest and the deadly fire at a factory in Mirpur reveal how the state views its people, and where its priorities lie.
18 October 2025, 02:00 AM
Gaps in Bangladesh’s latest Nationally Determined Contribution
By recently endorsing Bangladesh’s Third Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC 3.0) on time, the interim government continues the country’s climate commitments.
17 October 2025, 07:00 AM
Reducing poverty demands fairer wealth distribution
The gains that once seemed secure are now in danger.
17 October 2025, 05:00 AM
Proportional representation and the politics behind it
BNP has dissented, advocating an unusual interpretation of proportional representation.
17 October 2025, 04:00 AM
July National Charter: A consensus in name only?
A genuine national consensus on the path to democratic renewal has fallen short of expectations.
16 October 2025, 14:00 PM
Bangladesh’s food security depends on inclusion and innovation
According to Food Security Statistics 2023 from BBS, about 22 percent of Bangladeshi households face moderate to severe food insecurity, with one percent severely deprived.
16 October 2025, 08:00 AM
The fight for safe food production in Bangladesh
Why are farmers spending extra money to use an unhealthy amount of chemical fertiliser and pesticides?
16 October 2025, 06:00 AM
The case for increasing women's parliamentary participation in Bangladesh
Women in leadership and decision-making roles are essential for ensuring gender justice and equality.
16 October 2025, 05:00 AM
Public spaces under siege in Bangladesh
The scarcity of open spaces in Dhaka has long been a serious concern for its residents.
16 October 2025, 04:00 AM
Whom will the Awami League supporters vote for?
The Awami League (AL) is very likely to haunt the entire exercise.
16 October 2025, 03:00 AM
RTI: Are our political parties ready for transparency and accountability?
Political parties argue that they lie outside the RTI Act’s purview, not being obliged to respond to citizens’ RTI requests.
15 October 2025, 07:00 AM
Gen-Z discontent in Asia can affect geopolitical shifts
The protests represent a wholesale rejection of entrenched elites and dynastic politics.
15 October 2025, 05:00 AM
He moves still, in the gyres of our memory
It has been several days since the passing of Professor Syed Manzoorul Islam, yet I remain grief-stricken.
15 October 2025, 04:00 AM
Gaza will not forget, Palestine will remember
The suffocating smoke still hangs over Gaza’s ruins, thick with the acrid stench of explosives powder and dust carrying the scent of betrayal and the mark of courage.
14 October 2025, 10:20 AM
Machado's Nobel Prize puts Venezuela and US policy in the spotlight
Inside Venezuela, the picture remains grim.
14 October 2025, 06:00 AM
Military officers, civil charges, and the future of democratic rule
The greater the military’s interference in domestic politics, the higher the risk of democratic fragility.
14 October 2025, 05:00 AM