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
New Malaysian PM could mean good news for Bangladeshi workers
With Anwar’s announced stand on inhumane treatment and abuse of foreign workers, change may be in the offing.
15 January 2023, 16:00 PM
Tackle the plastic tide with proper waste management
Responsible plastic use involves using it for a long time before it is recycled or discarded.
15 January 2023, 15:10 PM
Goodbye, Indigo Lady
She was a central leader of Bangladesh's craft industry – of its Jamdani revival, and for the small but strong niche that it had begun to carve out for itself within the subcontinent's field of crafts.
15 January 2023, 12:30 PM
Will our universities survive in 25 years?
Finding the “quality” in quality education continues to be elusive in Bangladesh
14 January 2023, 17:00 PM
DAP density control plans will make housing even less affordable for the poor
The ill-conceived plan for limiting Dhaka’s population will ultimately be devastating for the urban scenario of Bangladesh.
14 January 2023, 13:10 PM
RTI is more than a right, it is a civic duty
Seeking information is not only a right of citizens, but also a civic duty.
14 January 2023, 12:00 PM
On fighting disinformation during the next general election
Recent media reports suggest that the authorities are forming an inter-ministerial committee to fight disinformation at home and abroad.
13 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Visiting the spirits of the Maya
In December 2022, my wife and I stepped back in time and walked the footsteps of those who lived in the Mayan era at Chichén Itzá and Chacchobén in Mexico, and Nim Li Punit in Belize.
13 January 2023, 15:00 PM
Biden to Democrats: Nominate me, whether you like it or not
With 2023 underway, Democrats in office are still dodging the key fact that most of their party’s voters don’t want President Biden to run for re-election.
13 January 2023, 14:00 PM
Here’s why feeding stray dogs may be far from a heroic act
Those who love dogs are ostracised. Many who otherwise felt neutral about dogs are now against them. And why wouldn’t they be?
13 January 2023, 11:00 AM
Graduate unemployment: Who's to blame?
The populist remedies for youth and educated unemployment will not work without a coherent and coordinated plan from the government.
12 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Swami Vivekananda’s universal humanism continues to be relevant today
His philosophy focused on the greatness that man can discover within himself
12 January 2023, 09:24 AM
Which path do we want to be on?
It is imperative to bring voters to conversations pertaining to the 2023 general elections.
11 January 2023, 18:53 PM
What's so great about English education anyway?
Over-expenditure in English education has led to under-expenditure for other subjects, particularly Bangla and STEM subjects.
11 January 2023, 18:00 PM
What's eating away at AL's bedrock?
An embarrassing stage collapse could well be an ominous sign of the party’s bedrock caving in.
11 January 2023, 11:20 AM
A lion-hearted pioneer
Justice Murshed shook the bar out of its lethargy and modernised it as far as possible.
10 January 2023, 19:12 PM
Hefazat’s politics and the government’s policies
As we approach another general election, the utmost thing of worry is that such appeasement will only intensify.
10 January 2023, 17:00 PM
Bangladeshi youth gunned down in the US: Lawmakers or lawbreakers?
Numerous figures demonstrate the disturbing rise in gun-related violence, including extrajudicial executions and hate crimes, in the US.
10 January 2023, 11:30 AM
How much longer will RMG workers have to shoulder losses, but not profits?
Behind the scenes of ‘Made in Bangladesh’
9 January 2023, 17:00 PM
The rhetoric of 'it happens' and whataboutism in political apologia
To use previous incidents of human rights violations to condone those of the present is hypocrisy and a macabre mockery of the past and present victims.
9 January 2023, 15:30 PM