Column by Mahfuz Anam / Yunus, Charter, and Our Future
23 October 2025, 18:30 PM
Opinion
Can Trump’s Gaza ceasefire redefine peace in Middle East?
23 October 2025, 14:00 PM
Opinion
The dilemma triangle of our tertiary education
23 October 2025, 07:00 AM
Opinion
MIND THE GAP / A bitter brew: Climate change and the decline of Sylhet’s tea gardens
23 October 2025, 06:00 AM
Opinion
Ports for private profit or national progress?
23 October 2025, 03:00 AM
Opinion
New data regulations warrant urgent rethinking
22 October 2025, 06:29 AM
Opinion
Opinion / 'Apnar Orna Koi?': How identity politics targets women
22 October 2025, 06:00 AM
Opinion
Opinion / Uniforms do not outrank the constitution
22 October 2025, 04:00 AM
Opinion
National Road Safety Day / ‘Road deaths cannot be reduced without BRTA reform’
22 October 2025, 03:00 AM
Opinion
The unfinished revolution for women's political rights
23 October 2025, 04:00 AM
Opinion
Why Bangladesh is seeing such a cold winter
There is growing scientific evidence that the intense cold waves are an outcome of human-induced climate change.
23 January 2024, 14:00 PM
What skills do logistics and supply chain professionals need?
Despite improvements, Bangladesh still has the lowest logistics performance compared to other South Asian nations.
23 January 2024, 04:00 AM
Prisoners without committing any crimes
The regulations for children of incarcerated mothers in Bangladesh are inadequate and/or not being implemented.
23 January 2024, 02:00 AM
Overcoming our environmental policy inertia
A list of major environmental policy initiatives in Bangladesh that have been stuck in a limbo for many years
22 January 2024, 05:00 AM
People's loss of faith in elections: To what extent is the EC to blame?
The EC's attempts to portray the election as participatory and fair seem to have been more focused on appearance than on genuine efforts to achieve these goals.
22 January 2024, 02:00 AM
Teachers can make the new curriculum work. But are they paid enough?
With all the talk surrounding the new school curriculum, a crucial element has been absent from the conversation.
21 January 2024, 02:00 AM
Worrying features of our labour market
Addressing key bottlenecks is essential to fully utilise our labour force.
21 January 2024, 01:00 AM
To overcome gas crisis, upgrade field management
Bangladesh is going through the worst gas supply shortfall in recent history
20 January 2024, 02:00 AM
The road to a new Myanmar
Myanmar is facing a structural metamorphosis, putting its South and Southeast Asian neighbours on alert.
20 January 2024, 01:00 AM
Blue economy for Bangladesh's sustainable development
This area needs immediate policy support to utilise and conserve marine resources effectively
19 January 2024, 07:25 AM
For whom the bell tolls?
The case of Prof Yunus is symptomatic of the erosion in the credibility of our institutions.
19 January 2024, 07:09 AM
A holy land or graveyard?
For the past 75 years, Israel has been terrorising the people of Palestine with the support of the US and UK.
18 January 2024, 11:00 AM
Is policy failure to blame for our wage inequality?
The problem is not a shortage of professional textile engineers; the problem is that the country's economic decision-makers cannot understand growing demand.
18 January 2024, 02:00 AM
Who can help utilise our development budget?
It has been observed that monitoring & evaluation functions within ministries and their departments are poorly understood, under-funded, and underutilised.
17 January 2024, 03:00 AM
Structural killings, not road ‘accidents’
Regular deaths on the highways of Bangladesh have become quite a "normal" thing.
17 January 2024, 02:00 AM
To be treated as equals to the West, the Global South must decolonise its minds
In an over-crowded planet, the system is inherently unstable when we attempt to resolve differences via conflict and war
17 January 2024, 01:00 AM
A country drifting into political paralysis
Ali Riaz sadly observes that the country is fast drifting into a political paralysis and descending into the abyss of authoritarianism, while maintaining a democratic facade.
16 January 2024, 14:00 PM
'Genocide’s Claim' by Shahidul Alam
In Gaza's streets, where shadows loom, // Apartheid's legacy casts heavy gloom.
15 January 2024, 03:00 AM
The end of human rights and the last child in Gaza
Against the backdrop of the current crisis, we ought to conduct a critical interrogation of the relevance of the overarching international human rights law framework itself.
15 January 2024, 02:00 AM
RTI can help our new government fulfil its election pledges
The Right to Information Act, 2009 specifies a mechanism for citizens to access all information—with few exceptions—available to the government and many other public authorities.
15 January 2024, 02:00 AM