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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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?
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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
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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‘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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One year on in Bangladesh
I loved going to school. There, I used to play hide and seek and other fun games with my friends. I want to go to school again and become a teacher,” said a 15-year old child bride.
21 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Revolutionising electronics
It is said that Newton formulated the laws of motion by observing an apple that had fallen from a tree. It now appears that another apple is falling again.
21 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Animal Planet
There is ecstasy upon discovering the ancient boat in Kutubdia, immediately followed by agony. The vessel is already DoA – Dead on Arrival. Sigh! Ok guys, drop the sticks and machetes and go home. Party's over.
16 July 2015, 18:00 PM
“Zakat-Deaths” in Bangladesh: An old story of piety and power
Egotistical and irresponsible rich men – who are hell-bent to demonstrate their wealth and power through piety and religion – are mainly responsible for these deaths.
16 July 2015, 18:00 PM
On to a stand apart Eid
Eid has always been a special occasion. But this time it stands apart from the Eids in recent years.
16 July 2015, 18:00 PM
A tribute to Golok Majumder
In 1971, Golok Bihari Majumder played the key role as a virtual host of the Mujibnagar government from day one.
15 July 2015, 18:00 PM
FOR RAJON'S SAKE
Don't tell me Rajon and Tikon's murders were 'shocking'. In a country where child labour and child abuse is rampant and suspended in full public view on a daily basis, we know better than to be 'shocked'.
15 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Lest We Forget
Humayun Kabir is no more with us. It's hard to believe this fact. He left us on July 2, 2015.
14 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Arabisation of Bangladesh
Visitors to Bangladesh, who enter the country for the first time through the Hazrat Shah Jalal International Airport in Dhaka, might get the wrong impression about the major languages spoken in the country.
13 July 2015, 18:00 PM
HEIGHT OF INHUMANITY
A Facebook post chilled me to the bone. It was a news story of 13-year-old Rajon who was beaten mercilessly by a group of men until he succumbed to his injuries.
13 July 2015, 18:00 PM
In the name of religion
When did you forget what Zakat actually means? When did the month of Ramadan become a ostentatious show of wealth and affluence?
13 July 2015, 18:00 PM
On Srebrenica twenty years later
Twenty years have passed since that horrific day of July 11, 1995 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, when Army units of the self-proclaimed
12 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Three Zeros for a Sustainable World
At their annual summit in Russia in July this year, BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) leaders will announce the world's
12 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Cost Of Corruption
A candid acceptance of the finance minister regarding corruption's impact on Bangladesh's economic growth is noteworthy. A departure
12 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Why relocating rohingyas is not the answer
Over the last several months there have been sporadic media reports that the government was mulling the idea of relocating the
12 July 2015, 18:00 PM
TALK THE TALK
After the 1965 Indo-Pakistan war, the then Soviet Union brokered a peace agreement at Tashkent. Russia has again taken the initiative
11 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Embrace thy enemy?
The whole-sale induction of BNP-Jamaat leaders into the ruling party is the latest startling development in our bizarre political scene. It
11 July 2015, 18:00 PM
THE GREEK ODYSSEY
The placid Aegean Sea, the whitewashed villas dotting its Islands and “Zorba's Dance” could delude some into believing that all is well
11 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Gender-gap in electoral roll and some additional questions
A credible electoral roll is a prerequisite for free and fair elections, and the allegation of 1.25 crore fake voters in our electoral roll was
11 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Population, Prosperity and Public Policy
Man in Bangladesh, the nation as a whole,” as a wise man once put it, “is the principal resource of Bangladesh.”
10 July 2015, 18:00 PM