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
The future of work in a post-Covid world
Even though most offices have resumed physical activity, the learnings from the pandemic are here to stay.
11 August 2022, 12:31 PM
Soft-Landing Bangladesh’s Economy
Like much of the world, Bangladesh’s economy is facing strong headwinds and turbulence.
10 August 2022, 15:00 PM
Is harassing students a disciplinary method at universities now?
The apathy towards ending sexual harassment on campus is a symptom of wider institutional control.
10 August 2022, 14:30 PM
Is the US equipped to be a global climate change leader?
Let me give a glimpse into the ups and downs in the US’ involvement in sometimes being a leader and sometimes a laggard when it comes to climate solutions, and where it stands today.
10 August 2022, 14:00 PM
CHT Land Commission work, and the power struggles, contradictions, and tensions around it
The state has slowly been leading to the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples from their land
10 August 2022, 10:06 AM
Navigating a world without Indigenous representation
When a child is disrespected for who she is, she will reject her home and culture.
8 August 2022, 18:00 PM
Indigenous women know how to nurture nature. We need to listen to them.
Indigenous women's traditional knowledge and practices can help us to survive with nature instead of abusing it. In Bangladesh, their inherent value are yet to be fully understood and duly recognised by the scientific community, development practitioners and policymakers alike.
8 August 2022, 15:00 PM
Debacle of National Household Database
Once again, the public must pay for the government's failure.
8 August 2022, 14:00 PM
Pelosi’s Taiwan visit: An ominous sign of how the superpower rivalry might unfold
It could lead to an unimaginable catastrophe that the world can’t afford
8 August 2022, 09:40 AM
How will the common people survive?
Mismanagement, system loss and a weak supply chain of the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) have become a perennial problem.
7 August 2022, 14:00 PM
Economists and their predictions: What lies beneath the illusion of simplicity?
One of the most common shortcomings of the general art of prediction among economists is that the information we rely on draws on a theoretical framework based on past data and future expectations.
7 August 2022, 12:30 PM
Digital divide gets wider if there is power failure and servers go down frequently
Bangladesh needs a fault-tolerant digital system.
6 August 2022, 16:00 PM
How to avert the next level crossing disaster
Despite huge investments being made in the railways, the authorities are struggling to offer decent services thanks to sheer corruption and irregularities.
6 August 2022, 15:00 PM
Government’s decision to hike fuel prices will hurt every section of society
The rise in fuel prices is an illogical decision that will only harm ordinary citizens and fail to deal with the root causes of the crisis that Bangladesh is currently facing.
6 August 2022, 12:21 PM
Why the mismatch between what we study and what we do?
There is no serious study on the kind of jobs that are out there and the kind of degrees or training that we are providing in our academic institutions.
6 August 2022, 08:05 AM
Kafr Qasim massacre was part of an ethnic cleansing plan
Recently released court documents show Israeli soldiers brutally massacred 49 Palestinians on October 29, 1956 in Kafr Qasim.
5 August 2022, 12:00 PM
Sajid’s and Sourodip’s victory: To debate or not to debate
A good occasion of national pride and celebration for us as Bangladeshis. But we were not sufficiently thrilled.
5 August 2022, 11:18 AM
STAR Cineplex and the lungi-clad customer
STAR Cineplex’s act of benevolence confirms the power distance between the capitalist private company and the lungi-clad customer.
5 August 2022, 10:30 AM
Thoughts on Sajid’s and Sourodip’s victory
Two university students have made Bangladesh the first Asian country to win the World Universities Debating Championships. Will this stunning rhetorical feat spark the spirit of debate in our society?
4 August 2022, 13:30 PM
Arresting gamers: An alarming threat to individual liberty
The recent arrest of over 100 youths in Chuadanga has shined a light on a problematic tendency of our police force
4 August 2022, 11:30 AM