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Zero pass rate a sign of bigger problems
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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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NHRC response to The Daily Star editorial
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Destruction of Hargazi Canal
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How could 30,000 foreigners stay here without valid papers?
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Rana Plaza two-year anniversary
TWO years ago, the Rana Plaza building collapsed, crushing workers and drawing the world's attention to the readymade garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh.
24 April 2015, 18:00 PM
The outrage and issues thereof
THERE is understandable outrage at the alleged sexual assault of at least 20 women by a large group of men during the Bengali New Year celebrations at the Dhaka University.
24 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Raising Son
A dog bites me on that part of my anatomy where the sun doesn't shine. It's all my fault for being 9 years old, for having my behind facing the dog, for...
23 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Dhaka - A woman-unfriendly city
"This is not a woman-friendly city, dear mayoral aspirants. That is perhaps the most glaring parameter of failure of our consecutive governments."
22 April 2015, 18:00 PM
A Woman's Musings on Sexual Assault
Iquietly walked into the room just as a popular Bengali talk show highlighted Facebook comments on the latest incident of sexual
20 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Buy one get one free
Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the presidential race saying that everyday Americans need a champion and she wants to be that
20 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Cricket's marketing apparatus
Gone are the days of cricketers donning flannels or sipping light liquor in tiresome evenings. Convention, tradition and do-good
20 April 2015, 18:00 PM
A new era in US-Cuba relations
Cuba is only 90 miles from Florida. It is even closer than the US state of Hawaii. Although so close to each other, the diplomatic ties between the US and Cuba were frozen more than five decades ago.
20 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Belt and road initiative
The Chinese leadership has embraced the Belt and Road initiative to be built in parallel with one another. According to the action plan
20 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Forging Unity
When two Indian passenger ships carrying 337 Bangladeshi nationals, who were pulled out of war-torn Yemen, reached the southern
18 April 2015, 18:00 PM
The Sound of Silence
Solitude or loneliness, quiet reflection and public interaction: are experiences of these feelings and moments innate or cultural?
18 April 2015, 18:00 PM
The moral wish list
With time the Pahela Baisakh festivities in Bangladesh have assumed a grand and massive scale, as if people are making a bold
18 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Flying Biman for a Trip to Trauma
FROM Dhaka to Kolkata and back -- by Biman! What's there to write home about such a short round trip of altogether 70 minutes? Actually, quite
17 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Portrait of a patriot
KM Shehabuddin, former Bangladeshi ambassador to the United States and an iconic patriot and diplomat, passed away on
16 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Vast Food Nation
APRIL 14 – the heyday for hilsa traders and mobile phone operators. It is definitely the wrong day to send important SMSs which get deleted amidst the flood of Shubho Nobo Borsho greetings.
16 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Carrying the burden of un-redressed wrongs
ONCE again we are confronted with the news of yet another incident of mob violence. CCTV images showing a young girl being tugged and pulled
16 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Encounter or sheer murder
Yet another encounter has taken place in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. I have lost the count. What is distressing is that even the
15 April 2015, 18:00 PM
An educator's appraisal
As a public servant working in a public university, I take umbrage at the sharp disdain and negativity displayed by a faculty member of
15 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Girls Don't Cry
Could anybody imagine Dwight Eisenhower, a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th president of the United States
15 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Wasteland
THE plight that is Dhaka city, the magnitude of its unlivability (though we continue to live and endure) has become a daily platitude,
13 April 2015, 18:00 PM