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
Partition 1947: The flow between two sides of a line
The reality of the communities that are yet to recover from the trauma of Partition.
7 October 2022, 16:00 PM
Making social protection nutrition-sensitive
Bangladesh is yet to achieve nutrition security for its entire population.
7 October 2022, 14:00 PM
Who is afraid of DAP?
The Detailed Area Plan (DAP) for 2022-2035, produced by Rajuk, is a radical and innovative document in the planning history of Dhaka.
6 October 2022, 14:00 PM
Taking care of our elderly must not be an afterthought
There is a saying that a society is measured by how it cares for its elderly population.
6 October 2022, 11:09 AM
Loss and damage must be defined on moral grounds
One reason behind the lack of progress on L&D is that it has no agreed definition yet.
5 October 2022, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh signs Marrakesh Treaty: The end of ‘book famine’?
September 26, 2022 marks a historic day for Bangladesh, especially for the people who have any form of visual or print disability.
5 October 2022, 17:00 PM
Can teachers be the pivot of change in education?
To ignore the special role of a teacher in society is to place the future of the nation at peril.
5 October 2022, 14:00 PM
How can Bangladesh have sustainable journalism and media self-regulation?
The concept of sustainable journalism is yet to get currency in Bangladesh.
5 October 2022, 12:05 PM
Exploiting Newton’s law of gravity to store green energy
Energy generated from gravity batteries is sustainable.
5 October 2022, 02:00 AM
An open letter to Bangladeshi youth
You hold, in your anger and your compassion, the ability to bend the arc of our future towards justice.
4 October 2022, 18:00 PM
Gagging young voices: The unreasonable nature of our digital laws
As it stands now, any person whom law enforcement authorities deem to have breached the DSA will be arrested without a warrant.
4 October 2022, 15:00 PM
EVMs and a mind-reading election commissioner
Did you know that mind-reading was an essential trait for the job of an election commissioner? I did not.
3 October 2022, 15:00 PM
How can Bangladesh turn on its ‘brain gain’?
Bangladesh is currently suffering from an acute shortage of skilled workers and managers.
3 October 2022, 13:00 PM
Roger Federer: The legend, the person
Federer the person was even more important to me than Federer the tennis player.
3 October 2022, 12:30 PM
Must urbanisation be all-devouring?
In 1985, the United Nations declared through Resolution 40/202 that the first Monday of every October would be observed as World Habitat Day.
3 October 2022, 12:10 PM
How will we measure development if we don't have data?
In Bangladesh, the quality of the available data does not always meet expectations, and data is not always made readily available to researchers.
2 October 2022, 18:00 PM
Kennan’s 1946 ‘Long Telegram’ from Moscow: Is it relevant for Beijing?
The China containment policy has taken deep roots following Kennan’s anti-Soviet postulations.
2 October 2022, 12:33 PM
Game of Seats: Eden College ugliness exposes the rot in student politics
According to media reports, there are around 3,310 seats at halls but at least 12,000 students unlawfully inhabit them, with up to 12-15 students living in one room.
1 October 2022, 16:00 PM
‘My job is to take someone’s experience and make it visible’
Daily Star Books editor Sarah Anjum Bari speaks with Fahmida Azim about her work with The Insider and about the responsibilities of visual storytelling.
1 October 2022, 14:00 PM
‘We’re working very hard to increase Bangladesh’s export to China’
Chinese envoy Li Jiming shares his views on the depth and prospects of Bangladesh-China bilateral relationship with The Daily Star.
30 September 2022, 18:00 PM