Opinion / 'Apnar Orna Koi?': How identity politics targets women
Women’s physical appearance has once again become a battleground for cultural and political power.
Opinion
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
News
Watch / No provision in the constitution should be outside the purview of judiciary: Mahfuz Anam
2 September 2025, 16:15 PM
Star Multimedia
How accurate is Trump's claim about $29 million?
25 February 2025, 16:25 PM
Star Multimedia
‘King's Party’ tag still sticks on BNP: Samantha Sharmin
30 December 2024, 13:29 PM
Star Multimedia
How could 30,000 foreigners stay here without valid papers?
23 December 2024, 19:27 PM
Star Multimedia
Analysis: Ban, an answer to Ansarullah?
Government’s ban on Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), an Islamist outfit blamed for the killings of two free-thinkers and bloggers in Dhaka and one in Sylhet in a span of only 75 days, came on the heel of utter failure of law enforcing agencies.
26 May 2015, 10:25 AM
Thunder Clouds in the Horizon?
The global climate change is expected to have possible devastating effects on lives, livelihood and economy in most countries.
24 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Boatloads of human misery
For full two weeks or thereabouts in April the media in the west, particularly the US, were ablaze with news of hundreds of migrants
23 May 2015, 18:00 PM
General Musharraf's outbursts
I have not been able to make out why General Pervez Musharraf, who is under house arrest on charge of treason, has made a public
23 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Sonar Bangla and Sustainable Human Development
The Finance Minister is going to place the Budget for the year 2015-16 before the Parliament on June 4, 2015. This budget marks a
23 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Combatting Islamophobia from within
Many Muslims currently living in the west claim that they are facing discrimination and even bigotry, on a day-to-day basis. While it's
23 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Opinion: Human trafficking and Myanmar denial
The continuous media exposure of the humanitarian crisis caused by thousands of illegally trafficked people, has led to an international demand to give these sick people – humanitarian aid first.
23 May 2015, 12:10 PM
Maternity and poverty
MANY mothers lose their lives while giving birth, others live with lifelong scars. One such scar is obstetric fistula, a disorder of female genitalia, mainly associated with the birth process.
22 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Mortuary Mothers, Funeral Fathers
The mother lies in the mortuary. Her son is trying desperately to get an airline ticket from the States to get home for her janaza.
22 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Tranquility in roaring waves of colours
I'VE been following the gradual evolution of Kazi Ghiyasuddin's artistic excellence for almost two decades...
22 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Dhaka as a people-friendly, liveable city
One of the primary tasks of the new mayors of Dhaka should be to turn Dhaka into a people-friendly, liveable city.
21 May 2015, 18:00 PM
READERS RESPOND
If other countries don't care, Bangladesh government should send food and water by helicopter to save its own people.
21 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Looking for a HERO
After a very long time I have started to find heroes in our country. It isn't that they were not there, they always existed - it's just that I didn't know how to look for them.
20 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Research Matters
Established in 1957 in the then Pakistan, the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) is an autonomous, public organisation
20 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The Modi government turns one
INDIA'S Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will mark its first anniversary in office this
20 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The risky flight of repute
Business is a risky business indeed. One doesn't rest in ease in the corporate world. Tensions come flying in; every second phone conversation adds to the stress level...
19 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Unlocking the potential: South-South cooperation
Foreign aid which entails transfer of resources, both financial and technical, from north to south has remained the dominant form of
16 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Old city, new perspective?
Time seems to have a transformative impact on a person's perception of the surrounding environment. Since my stay in Dhaka this
16 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The potential of solar home systems in Bangladesh
Bangladesh has made questionable decisions, both economic and environmental, to bring electricity to its 160 million people. About 65
16 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Jumpstarting sustainable growth
Bangladesh is facing some challenges as well as opportunities from the global and regional economies. Global economic growth
16 May 2015, 18:00 PM