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
How erratic weather has affected our food production
More investment is needed in research work to understand the dynamics and impact of loss and damage in climate-vulnerable communities.
30 October 2022, 06:15 AM
How decentralisation helped China and Vietnam grow
The achievements of pro-market reforms in these two countries over the past four decades have been stupendous.
30 October 2022, 02:00 AM
Why is workplace safety for women such a big ask?
The truth is that women are at risk of violence regardless of whether they work in homes, factories, fields or offices.
29 October 2022, 15:00 PM
Learning to live with less?
In some neighbourhoods, when the power goes out, people emerge from their apartments and socialise.
29 October 2022, 10:00 AM
Partition 1947: Lessons we need to un/learn
Narratives from the peripheries are needed to balance out the indocentrism of Partition Studies
28 October 2022, 20:00 PM
How do we prepare our cities for the inevitable wave of climate refugees?
According to IPCC6, about 17 percent of our population must be relocated within the next decade due to these rising sea levels.
28 October 2022, 10:15 AM
Rakhine is boiling again. Will we look away?
After a two-year pause, the conflict between the Arakan Army (AA) and Myanmar’s military junta has resurged in Rakhine.
27 October 2022, 17:00 PM
An innovative way to achieve quality education in Bangladesh
An innovative scheme is needed to move towards quality education within the current constraints.
27 October 2022, 16:15 PM
Evaly’s cult following: Delusion or desperation?
Evaly was never here to revolutionise our e-commerce scene
27 October 2022, 09:00 AM
Beyond awareness: A new decade of action on road safety
Bangladesh saw nearly 400 people killed in road crashes during the 2022 Eid-ul-Azha holidays.
26 October 2022, 14:00 PM
Why we need traditional media to survive
The role of independent media and journalism as bearers of the foundations of democratic systems, is slowly but surely diminishing.
26 October 2022, 07:35 AM
Moral policing of women: From the streets to social media
Why has it increased in recent years?
25 October 2022, 17:00 PM
Detailed Area Plan for Dhaka: Is a liveable and sustainable future too much to ask for?
DAP depicts a vision, but whose vision that is and how it came to be are not clear.
25 October 2022, 16:30 PM
Time to include people with disabilities in local government
People with disabilities are now, for the first time in the country, covered by health insurance, allowing them to receive low-cost medical care.
25 October 2022, 14:00 PM
Forests make embankments sturdy. Why are we getting rid of them?
In order to soften the impact of any cyclone, there is no alternative to constructing embankments and polders along our coastal region.
25 October 2022, 13:37 PM
Lead poisoning: The next big threat for Bangladesh
Bangladesh is grappling with one of the largest cases of lead poisoning in history.
24 October 2022, 14:00 PM
Is BNP emerging as a worthy opposition?
Recent mass gatherings mobilised by BNP signal a change in their strategy
24 October 2022, 11:54 AM
Bootlickers only?
The government is taking measures to snip out people who, they believe, have relations with the opposition or may somehow favour the opposition in the times of election.
23 October 2022, 19:50 PM
Don't let world leaders put us through World War III
In a nuclear war, who struck first is irrelevant when we consider its consequences.
23 October 2022, 16:00 PM
Is Britain about to reunite with its ex(PM)?
Despite the hype created by Boris Johnson's loyalists and the campaign team, others have raised a number of critical questions.
23 October 2022, 08:45 AM