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
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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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Explainer / Why are BNP, Jamaat, NCP leaders accompanying Yunus to UNGA?
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Watch / No provision in the constitution should be outside the purview of judiciary: Mahfuz Anam
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How accurate is Trump's claim about $29 million?
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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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Sharing the grief of a mother
Availability of proper healthcare is a birthright of all human beings. However, many countries of the world, including Bangladesh, deny this right to their citizens or international patients.
29 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Thin Is Beautiful?
Recently a friend invited me to a fashion show in aid of a worthwhile charity. The show and its designers will remain
25 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Fuelling the fire over Al Aqsa
Death is everywhere - in Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza. Everyday young Palestinian men, allegedly caught hurling
25 October 2015, 18:00 PM
The power of a single ideal
On October 24, 70 years ago, the Charter of the United Nations came into force – hope, rising from the ashes of
25 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Mitigating the implications of TPP
The recently adopted mega trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) led by the USA, has received mixed
25 October 2015, 18:00 PM
AMAN'S ORDEAL
He was a very innocent young man and he should not have been subjected to such humiliation in life and in death by the so called booming Singapore health business.
23 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Beating of Bangladeshi: Migrant workers deserve respect
The CCTV footage is of an angry altercation involving a Bangladeshi worker and a male customer regarding the cleaning of the interior of a luxury SUV at a car wash in Malaysia. The worker is slapped on the face several times.
22 October 2015, 06:13 AM
How to make our ROADS SAFER
Many thanks for your presence. A more appropriate heading for today's roundtable would have been “How to make our roads safe”
21 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Is Development Incompatible With Democracy?
We are living in the digital age of growth with deprivation; we see affluence with poverty, globalisation with increasing restrictions on
20 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh should be worried about China's Brahmaputra dam
China's $1.5 billion Brahmaputra dam, known as Zangmu Hydropower Station, has raised some serious concerns in India and
20 October 2015, 18:00 PM
A Clash of Western Civilisations
Images from the refugee crisis in Europe have juxtaposed smiling crowds in Vienna and Munich with grim, unwelcoming faces in
20 October 2015, 18:00 PM
“THE LAW IS KING”!
So Thomas Paine had said. But unfortunately that is not so in Bangladesh. In our country the saying, 'show me the man and I will show
20 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Futility of the beef debate
India has been pushed into an unnecessary debate on whether beef should be banned or not. This is a wrong question to ask in a
19 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Social business, profit and sustainability
Social business as an economic theory and alternative business model has received considerable attention in recent times. Many
19 October 2015, 18:00 PM
The economics of 'dowry' payments
From a welfare and policy perspective, dowry is a social evil and Bangladesh, like many other countries, has enacted laws prohibiting
19 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Two sides to the Syrian conflict
International headlines are full of news, views and analyses on the pros-and-cons of Russia's entry into the Syrian civil war. With more
19 October 2015, 18:00 PM
THE FIGHT AGAINST HUNGER
Each year the World Food Prize Laureate delivers the Borlaug Lecture at Iowa State University, principally on the subject agricultural science and its potential to advance human progress.
18 October 2015, 18:00 PM
The use of strategic silence
The relationship between government and media is surely the most tempestuous fact of any democracy. The two represent parallel poles of power, but they are never really poles apart.
17 October 2015, 18:00 PM
What is the rationale of partisan local government elections?
The cabinet has recently decided in principle to allow the use of party symbols in local elections. This, we are afraid, is a dangerous decision, which could unravel what is left of our democratic system after the much controversial election of January 5, 2014.
17 October 2015, 18:00 PM
SUVs and Rickshaws
The key facts of the case I analyse here are as follows: An underage driver crashed into two rickshaws. He was caught red-handed. Police officers who responded to the incident have given statements confirming that the perpetrator was drunk, that he did not hold a driver's licence.
17 October 2015, 18:00 PM