Opinion / 'Apnar Orna Koi?': How identity politics targets women
Women’s physical appearance has once again become a battleground for cultural and political power.
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Timely election must for economic stability
23 October 2025, 15:00 PM
Opinion
Zero pass rate a sign of bigger problems
23 October 2025, 05:00 AM
Opinion
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?
Geopolitical Insights
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.
Opinion
NHRC response to The Daily Star editorial
25 April 2024, 05:00 AM
Opinion
Destruction of Hargazi Canal
24 April 2024, 08:18 AM
Opinion
Explainer / Why are BNP, Jamaat, NCP leaders accompanying Yunus to UNGA?
22 September 2025, 06:57 AM
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Watch / No provision in the constitution should be outside the purview of judiciary: Mahfuz Anam
2 September 2025, 16:15 PM
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How accurate is Trump's claim about $29 million?
25 February 2025, 16:25 PM
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‘King's Party’ tag still sticks on BNP: Samantha Sharmin
30 December 2024, 13:29 PM
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How could 30,000 foreigners stay here without valid papers?
23 December 2024, 19:27 PM
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The “Age of Shame”
The past weeks have been especially difficult with terrorist attacks in Beirut and Paris, followed by the raging controversy over Islam
21 November 2015, 18:00 PM
War crimes trials: The lobbyists are at work again
The much-awaited verdict on the review petition against convicted war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammed Mojaheed (incidentally, my
21 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Nepal in a straitjacket
A curious situation has been developing on the international border between two South Asian neighbours – both of whom are
21 November 2015, 18:00 PM
SQC Trial: Why plea of alibi failed
As the application for review by Salauddin Quader Chowdhury ("the convict") has already been dismissed, no further legal barrier
21 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Russian Roulette
Dhaka to Bangkok and back to Dhaka on Air Asia – Taka 5,000? Wow! So, we click the 'purchase' button online. One small question...
19 November 2015, 18:00 PM
What does it take to move the human heart?
There was a time when public discussion was awash in meta-questions like: What is our purpose? What is right and what is wrong?
18 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Aung Suu Kyi's next round
In a rare interview recently, Myanmar's commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing told the BBC that the military will not step back from
14 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Changing Contours of RTI
In last month's column we focused on progress of RTI in Bangladesh in the last one year. Due to space limits we could not provide
14 November 2015, 18:00 PM
The deadly game of alibis
The terrorist assault on cities began in Mumbai: not Mumbai 2008, but Mumbai 1993. A series of coordinated bomb blasts in February
14 November 2015, 18:00 PM
TRIBUTE - MINTU BHAI
Time flies. This November 10th was the tenth death anniversary of Enayetullah Khan ("Mintu Bhai" to his younger friends and admirers)...
13 November 2015, 18:00 PM
A Scholar Extraordinaire
It's 3 in the morning. I went to bed at 9 last night just to wake up early in order to meet the deadline for my piece on the first death anniversary of my mentor Prof Zillur Rahman Siddiqui.
10 November 2015, 18:00 PM
The brewing feud in South China Sea
The number one and number two global economic powers, USA and China respectively, appear to be venting their frustrations with each
7 November 2015, 18:00 PM
How prepared are we?
Brigadier General Engineer Ali Ahmed Khan, psc, Director General, Fire Service and Civil Defence talks to The Daily Star 's Naznin Tithi about the progress made in terms of earthquake preparedness and the future plans for capacity building.
7 November 2015, 18:00 PM
There's money for war but not for poverty or peace
Globally, 800 million people still live in extreme poverty, 57 million children are still denied the right to primary education, gender
7 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Massacre at Delhi
I Was on my way to Peshawar from Lahore to meet Khan Abdul Wali Khan, son of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the Frontier Gandhi. My
7 November 2015, 18:00 PM
SAVING FOOTBALL
Amidst the political uncertainty and apparent “terrorist attacks” that have given Bangladesh some bad press, prompting two foreign cricket teams...
5 November 2015, 18:00 PM
What can we expect in the next months?
In the coming months, the world economy will go through a period of gusty weather. A key indicator of global financial well-being is
31 October 2015, 18:00 PM
All in the name of God?
Last week I was appalled and deeply saddened to read about the bomb attacks on the peaceful Ashura procession at the Hussaini Dalan
31 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Engaging the World in Syria
A global security crisis of historic proportions is raging in the Middle East, and spreading by the day, as millions of refugees flee Syria
31 October 2015, 18:00 PM
The emerging positives of Bangladesh
Recently, the well-known Boston Consulting Group wrote a piece entitled 'Bangladesh – the surging consumer market nobody saw
31 October 2015, 18:00 PM