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
In Pakistan, a mass reckoning remains unlikely
The lack of issue-based mobilisation is a reflection of Pakistan’s paucity of issue-based politics.
15 May 2023, 11:00 AM
Does RTI have a future in Bangladesh?
Can public officials ever become transparent in their work and feel accountable to citizens?
15 May 2023, 02:00 AM
Don’t judge our grief
As a mother, I believe that children should never die before their parents.
14 May 2023, 11:00 AM
All (alone) aboard the emotional rollercoaster ride of motherhood
I experienced postpartum depression with both my pregnancies, albeit in varying degrees and dimensions.
14 May 2023, 09:30 AM
Meeting the conditions for the IMF Loan
As is well-known, credit from the IMF comes with strings attached, and the latest one is no exception.
14 May 2023, 05:00 AM
The untold story of an unfinished journey to motherhood
We need to normalise talking about pregnancy losses. In popular media, we would often see someone have sex just once, and then they get pregnant, and the next thing you know is that they had a perfectly healthy, happy baby.
13 May 2023, 18:00 PM
Desperate migration of the youth amidst ‘development’
If there is no decent job opportunity within the country, young people will always strive to get it even if they need to risk their lives.
13 May 2023, 15:00 PM
Rethinking Bangladesh's social security budget
Almost a decade after the approval of the NSSS, the country has not yet established a single registry system or installed a robust MIS.
13 May 2023, 06:00 AM
Two weeks in the dysfunctional megacity of Dhaka
Today, Dhaka is a dysfunctional megacity, an economic hub that has grown chaotically – outwards and upwards – to absorb more than 20 million people who live there, and hundreds of thousands more arriving each year.
13 May 2023, 05:04 AM
Imran Khan’s arrest has cracked open Pakistan’s compromised politics
With former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s arrest, Pakistan’s powerful military - which has long been acknowledged to “manage” the political scene from behind the curtains - now finds its supremacy in tatters.
12 May 2023, 17:35 PM
Messi’s 'transfer' and the speculation machine
Lionel Messi’s future destination may be making headlines all around the globe, but the latest transfer saga in the world of football has followed the same half-baked pattern of transfer sagas in the past.
12 May 2023, 05:48 AM
The passing of a self-professed accidental economist
That legacy has produced a bevy of outstanding economists over the past three decades. He lived a full life, steering through extraordinary times while leaving a chequered professional career behind. Yet, he once professed he was only an economist by accident.
12 May 2023, 03:00 AM
A new frontier for regional cooperation
This confluence of two mighty oceans connected by the Straits of Malacca has become the most happening region in the world in the 21st century.
12 May 2023, 01:00 AM
The Zahangir model of navigating elections
Zahangir’s mother, who has never been in politics, is contesting for the mayoral post.
11 May 2023, 16:00 PM
Forget the coronation, let’s talk about colonialism
Will the new king finally apologise for the atrocities committed in the name of the crown?
11 May 2023, 13:00 PM
No respite from the slow-motion US-China collision
The run-up to the US presidential election, together with China’s suspicion that the US is trying to contain its economic growth, will impede efforts to build trust and de-escalate tensions between the two countries.
11 May 2023, 11:00 AM
Is an election like the UK's possible in Bangladesh?
Promising elections similar to the UK is hardly enough to allay the concerns about the future of our democracy.
11 May 2023, 03:00 AM
Imran’s arrest is all about fear and intimidation
It appears that the current government might seek to remove Imran Khan from the political scene.
10 May 2023, 09:56 AM
Removing Imran Khan from the picture solves nothing
The breakout of fresh hostilities between the PTI and the state means any hopes of a negotiated breakthrough in the ongoing political stalemate can be put to rest.
10 May 2023, 06:40 AM
Cox’s Bazar: Buried in waste
Cox’s Bazar is already ecologically vulnerable, especially in the aftermath of the clearing of more than 8,000 acers of reserved forest land to accommodate and provide for the Rohingya refugees.
10 May 2023, 04:00 AM