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Timely election must for economic stability
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Zero pass rate a sign of bigger problems
23 October 2025, 05:00 AM
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Column by Mahfuz Anam / Yunus, Charter, and Our Future
Can the vision for 'New Bangladesh' ignore the poor, farmers, workers, youth, women, or employment and climate crises?
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Why global crises are pushing the world towards renewables
The urgency to move away from fossil fuels and into renewables isn’t just about climate change anymore.
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NHRC response to The Daily Star editorial
25 April 2024, 05:00 AM
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Destruction of Hargazi Canal
24 April 2024, 08:18 AM
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‘King's Party’ tag still sticks on BNP: Samantha Sharmin
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How could 30,000 foreigners stay here without valid papers?
23 December 2024, 19:27 PM
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New optimism for investment
The year 2016 has started with a note of optimism in the frontiers of both political understanding and investment prospects. Unlike
11 January 2016, 18:00 PM
A champion of social justice
The time dial of rotating years has once again brought us to the birth anniversary of perhaps one of the most distinguished sons of the country...
10 January 2016, 18:00 PM
How much is too much?
BANGLADESH has been overwhelmingly dependent on her own natural gas for a long time. Imported fuel has been a
9 January 2016, 18:00 PM
What to do with rising foreign exchange reserves?
FROM USD 9 billion only four years ago, foreign exchange (forex) reserves have risen exponentially and ended 2015 at USD 27 billion.
4 January 2016, 18:00 PM
The Bard for all time
This year's four hundredth anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare is not just an opportunity to commemorate one of the
4 January 2016, 18:00 PM
An execution's dangerous ripple effect
The execution of Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr in Saudi Arabia, along with 46 other men accused of being involved in terror attacks and Al
4 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Why economists differ so widely
PROJECTING an economic outlook in early January is a New Year tradition. While political forecasts are not too divergent, economists
4 January 2016, 18:00 PM
How they could have been
The municipal elections held on December 30 in 234 municipalities are considered neither 'credible' nor 'unacceptable' by any observer
2 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Who leads the world in 2016?
As we step into 2016, the big question that spooks thinkers, political scientists and the common man is this: who leads the world? For
2 January 2016, 18:00 PM
The best year ever
The gentleman boarding the flight in New Delhi looks awfully familiar – probably a friend of my dad's. Here's the dilemma – if I ask him
31 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Effective parenting has to be learnt
Most of us are still unaware that parenting can be learnt and think that it comes naturally.
30 December 2015, 18:00 PM
“I am where I thought I would be”
Syed Shamsul Haque is a literary star, the versatile writer of Bangla literature. Haque has distinguished himself as a writer with a unique
26 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Trumpeting for votes
An awfully successful real estate mogul, an outrageously prosperous business magnate, a terribly popular TV host, a filthily rich golf
26 December 2015, 18:00 PM
The changing face of Bangladesh
As the sun starts setting on 2015, it is perhaps time to give a look at how well Bangladesh fared economically this year. The country
26 December 2015, 18:00 PM
“Values” without borders
In the wake of the Paris and San Bernardino attacks, prominent US Republican senators have called for measures for stemming the entry
26 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Christmas: A time to see life in its newness
Pope Francis, the Supreme Pontiff, in his Christmas message of 2014 to the people of the world, invoked that the power of Jesus Christ,
24 December 2015, 18:00 PM
ENOUGH WITH THE DENIAL
The BNP chief, in her first public address in more than a year on Monday said, “There is still a controversy about the exact number of
24 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Embargo, Islamophobia and neo-fascist retreat
Abolt from the blue has hit Bangladesh as if we didn't have a plateful on our hands already: SMS threats to some Christian bishops as
24 December 2015, 18:00 PM
A departing diplomat's parting comments
During the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the ruling oligarchy in Japan set out to "gather wisdom from all over the world". It sent "learning
24 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Make corporal punishment of children socially unacceptable
Recently a friend of mine called to inform that his nephew (studying in class three in an English medium school in Dhaka) has been
23 December 2015, 18:00 PM