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
Spare our rivers from certain death
The condition our rivers are in right now is a threat to our existence.
3 April 2023, 15:00 PM
DSA and the quest for an obliged press
A free and independent press is essential for any democratic society, and journalists must be allowed to report on issues of public interest without fear of retaliation or censorship.
3 April 2023, 13:00 PM
The illusion of food self-sufficiency
If Bangladesh is self-sufficient in food, price hikes in the international market should not affect the domestic prices.
2 April 2023, 16:00 PM
Hero Alom: A revolutionary or a symptom?
The Alom who was prohibited from entering the sacred world of cinema has created his own micro-world.
2 April 2023, 14:00 PM
The Global Game of ChessGo
There is no endgame in war, only wealth and health destruction.
2 April 2023, 03:00 AM
What makes great research?
Research cannot flourish in an environment where critical enquiry is severely discouraged.
31 March 2023, 16:00 PM
Rahul Gandhi’s conviction: Another dent in India’s declining democracy
The same system that drags criminal cases for years starts to work on speed when power wants it to.
31 March 2023, 14:00 PM
A window of opportunity to phase out fossil fuels
We cannot continue to allow wealthy countries to externalise the damage of their pollution spree.
31 March 2023, 03:00 AM
On belonging
When you see all of the tiny imperceptible threads that connect everything, you realise that life is a shared experience.
30 March 2023, 21:00 PM
Victimising Shams shows why DSA should go
Yet another proof that the DSA has become a tool to suppress criticism and free thinking.
30 March 2023, 09:00 AM
IOC interest in our gas reserves is a good sign
ExxonMobil proposal should be considered with calculated speed.
30 March 2023, 03:00 AM
The deadly, murky history of the rules-based order
This month provides a harrowing historical landmark of what an ugly turn that order has taken in the past.
29 March 2023, 21:00 PM
Tracing the origins of Bangladesh’s economic woes
Bangladesh’s economy is overwhelmingly dominated by informal sectors. The informalisation stems from deindustrialisation, which has set in prematurely in the country.
29 March 2023, 17:00 PM
The free fall of Silicon Valley Bank
What happened to the 40-year-old bank that was so highly regarded among all stakeholders in America’s tech sector?
29 March 2023, 03:00 AM
University students’ struggle with concentration and self-worth
A recent survey explores the barely traversed topic of depression among university students in Bangladesh.
28 March 2023, 23:00 PM
The hydro-hegemony in South Asia
India also gets to exploit Bangladesh based on its technological projects.
28 March 2023, 18:00 PM
Our struggle for freedom is not done yet
I am here not to refute any of these stances but to ask readers to think deeply about why people got so uncomfortable seeing such a photo/heading like this.
28 March 2023, 11:30 AM
Managing the politics of budget-making
The main focus of the FY24 budget must be on economic stabilisation.
28 March 2023, 03:00 AM
My memories of Prof Abdur Razzaq
He truly was the Socrates of Bengal
27 March 2023, 15:00 PM
Terminal 3 alone can't turn Dhaka into an 'aviation hub'
It is quite surprising and disappointing that no one yet has pointed out these missing elements in the megaproject – all of which are so crucial!
27 March 2023, 13:00 PM