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
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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
Star Multimedia
How could 30,000 foreigners stay here without valid papers?
23 December 2024, 19:27 PM
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Withering tulips on moral grounds
A hobu-diplomat has been caught (The Daily Star April 8; Shoplifting in The Hague: Bangladeshi diplomat to face music) far away in the Netherlands, having criminally pocketed a mobile handset.
10 April 2015, 18:00 PM
It's a good day to do nothing
I am amused and shocked to see kids, 10 or 11 years old, using all these trendy gadgets.
8 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Rooftop Innovation: A potential growth industry
HAVING had the occasion to be on the 12th floor of an apartment building in Dhaka, I was taken in by the panorama that was both breathtaking and dispiriting.
8 April 2015, 14:38 PM
Open, troubled skies!
AS a new CEO just assumed office in Biman, it's deja vu all over again at a time when the airline industry is still suffering from an acute lack of direction.
7 April 2015, 18:00 PM
“The streets and institutions are male-dominated and aggressive.”
Professor Dr. Saskia Wieringa of University of Amsterdam speaks to The Daily Star at the International Conference on Gender, Diversity and Development hosted by Dhaka University from March 27-29.
6 April 2015, 18:00 PM
China's entry to global financial architecture
The big idea received mixed reactions as it was floated in 2013.
5 April 2015, 18:00 PM
A mutual opportunity
Sujata Mehta, Indian Ministry of External Affairs Secretary (Multilateral and Economic Relations), is expected to be in Bangladesh from April 5 to 7.
5 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Unlimited solar electricity from outer space!
It is amazing to watch how apparently small scientific inventions of the past turned into multibillion dollar industries later.
5 April 2015, 18:00 PM
The message of the Cross and the empty tomb of Christ
FROM time immemorial, humanity all over - irrespective of climes and cultures, colour, class or caste - has prostrated itself at the altar of whimsical deities, unknown and mysterious powers.
4 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Surviving the slaughter of innocents
EVERY year April 3, the most dreaded day in my life, sends a chilling shiver of panic down my spine.
4 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Justice Murshed: In Memoriam
SYED Mahbub Murshed is undoubtedly one the most striking and impressive public figures that have ever appeared in our national scene.
2 April 2015, 18:00 PM
AKM Jalaluddin: A scholar and mentor
IF he had been alive now, he would be 72. However, fate ordained otherwise.
1 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Grief, Over Easy
We see a continuous display of grief and sorrow in the media—bodies lined up after car crashes, young boys and girls with their faces charred by Molotov cocktails.
1 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Managing disasters scientifically
The discourse on disaster management has undergone significant changes in recent decades and the effects have been profoundly
30 March 2015, 18:00 PM
A legacy of excellence in public service
The passed away quietly and unheralded. Probably, that was how he would have preferred to go, after having courageously and gracefully
28 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Strategy and tactics of the Liberation War
Here we publish an excerpt from Air Vice Marshal ( Retd.) A. K. Khandker's speech on the strategy and tactics of the Liberation War.
28 March 2015, 18:00 PM
The bonds that bind
The Independence Day celebrations across the country, combined with the national euphoria created by the Bangladesh Cricket team's
28 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Let me tell it once again
‘Listen to me telling the old story once again’. Such a re-telling is not quite a wager to vie against the ‘resounding clamor of the devils’ advocates’,
26 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Dhirendranath Dutta
On Independence Day newspapers and television channels run all kinds of stories and biographies on people who galvanised the cause for our independence from Pakistan,
26 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Justice for Avijit
March 26th marks one month from the date my husband, Avijit Roy, and I were brutally attacked on the Dhaka University campus.
26 March 2015, 18:00 PM