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 provoke the opposition and punish citizens?
Contrast in administrative actions regarding political rallies could not be starker when it comes to BNP and other parties.
19 November 2022, 14:00 PM
Why are our resources wasted on lavish building projects?
We shouldn't be squandering money on buildings when our services need funds
18 November 2022, 16:22 PM
75 years of Partition: How the Noakhali riots came to be
Communal tension brewing for years led to the violent riots the year before Partition.
18 November 2022, 15:00 PM
Spare Fardin the burden of social judgement
During criminal investigations, the police and media need to do their bit to avoid a public trial
17 November 2022, 14:19 PM
For security and affordability, we must shore up renewable energy
Easing lending norms for coal-based power plants might dent the country’s recent strides towards a clean energy transition.
17 November 2022, 14:00 PM
The fall of 'Trumpty Dumpty' has begun after the US midterm elections
The 2022 US midterm elections revealed that independent voters and moderate Republican voters were unwilling to buy the narrative of Trump’s extreme MAGA movement
17 November 2022, 12:00 PM
How does our new National Adaptation Plan consider nature?
On November 2, the government made the long-awaited National Adaptation Plan of Bangladesh (2023-2050) public.
16 November 2022, 15:00 PM
A rudderless education policy is leading us astray
Is there a pattern of incompetence, inefficiency, lack of accountability, and impunity among the education personnel and institutions in this country?
16 November 2022, 14:00 PM
COP27: Show Me the money, supported by policy
Combining policy with public investment can dramatically amplify results.
16 November 2022, 12:00 PM
The changing patterns of US politics
The US midterm election results show a recurring motif
15 November 2022, 18:00 PM
Reforms proposed by IMF have been planned by the govt before
Time has come to make good on those plans.
15 November 2022, 15:00 PM
Why I won’t boycott Qatar World Cup
More than 1,000 Bangladeshis died while working in Qatar between 2010 and 2020.
15 November 2022, 14:00 PM
Negotiations going strong at COP27
The developing countries are united in their demand for the establishment of the Sharm El Sheikh Finance Facility for Loss and Damage (SSFFLD) at the end of the climate conference later this week.
15 November 2022, 12:45 PM
Success stories can improve our woefully low awareness of RTI
RTI Act is one of our most powerful instruments to hold the government accountable.
14 November 2022, 18:16 PM
Eight billion people, one humanity
Unless we bridge the yawning chasm between the global haves and have-nots, we are setting ourselves up for an 8-billion-strong world filled with tensions and mistrust.
14 November 2022, 18:00 PM
Rohingya, Geopolitics and Myanmar: An Uncertain Future
Myanmar's geopolitical value is putting Bangladesh in a tight spot
14 November 2022, 15:00 PM
Uninterrupted energy supply to industries should be ensured by government policy
It is crucial we understand the economic and social costs of the energy crisis, as well as its short- and long-term consequences.
14 November 2022, 09:00 AM
World population at 8 billion: Key messages for Bangladesh
How far have we come, and where are we headed?
14 November 2022, 02:00 AM
The Chinese Path to Modernisation
China is working to achieve modernisation for more than 1.4 billion people, a number larger than the combined population of all developed countries in the world today.
13 November 2022, 18:46 PM
Karnali to Padma: Different solutions to the same climate crisis
While communities are surviving flood events, over the years, climate change has been intensifying the crisis
13 November 2022, 09:30 AM