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
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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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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
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How could 30,000 foreigners stay here without valid papers?
23 December 2024, 19:27 PM
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A basic instinct
It's hard to say when it will hit you, usually when you will least expect it to. For me it was when I was in Kindergarten in London, with
25 March 2015, 18:00 PM
"As we win the war, we must prepare to win peace"
Here we publish Mr. Tajuddin Ahmad's speech addressed to the nation on December 8, 1971. He was the Prime Minister of the Mujibnagar government.
25 March 2015, 18:00 PM
We took up arms for freedom, they took up arms for genocide
Every struggle for freedom and every instance of independence of a country usually comes at a huge cost. We are among those
25 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Workers' rights through a gender lens
Since Rana Plaza, there has been a laudable focus on workplace safety in Bangladesh. There are two international safety agreements that
24 March 2015, 18:00 PM
How the currency War might affect Bangladesh
A global currency war is going on without much fanfare or a formal declaration of war. All major economies, including the Eurozone,
24 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Hypocrisy and Orange Jump Suits: ISIS as a Mirror
Apologists, in the cause of shielding Islam from depravity practiced in its name, may discount the evident relationship between the
24 March 2015, 18:00 PM
My husband Moazzem Hossain
Here we publish an account of Kohinoor Hossain, wife of Lt Commander Moazzem Hossain, who was killed on March 25 by the Pakistani occupation army. He was the number two accused of the Agartala Conspiracy case.
24 March 2015, 18:00 PM
A Titan in our shared history
As I sit at the computer in a bright room washed with sunlight to write this piece, I feel a dark cloak over my heart, as though in some
23 March 2015, 18:00 PM
'Enemy morale is deteriorating very fast'
Here we publish Major Khaled Musharrof's confidential letter dispatched to Colonel Osmani in August 1971. During the Liberation War, Major Musharrof was Sector Commander of Sector-2.
23 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Climate change: Changing narratives
Over the last two decades the topic of climate change has gone through an evolution in thinking both at the global level as well as in Bangladesh.
23 March 2015, 18:00 PM
New kids on the block
The global arms trade is changing. What had traditionally been the playground for the United States (US), Russia, France, Germany and
23 March 2015, 18:00 PM
City elections: A window of opportunity
The doors are closed, but a small window seems to be open. It could be a silver lining, it may show a feeble light on the other side of
21 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Sink or swim: The need for water guardianship
Access to water for life is a basic human need and a fundamental human right. But leading experts now predict that as early as 2025,
21 March 2015, 18:00 PM
'We did not take Khulna, and we did not capture Chittagong, yet we won the war.'
The crackdown (by West Pakistan on East Pakistan) took place from March 26. The Indian government was very concerned over the large
21 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Umpires knockout Tigers with “reverse swing”
A little more than a year ago I wrote an unflattering piece on the Bangladesh cricket team's performance in the Asia Cup. Today realities
21 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Return on investment for loving your country
In a little over hundred years, roughly 180 countries have ceased to exist.
19 March 2015, 18:51 PM
Railroading India's Railways
EVERY February, the Indian Parliament performs a curious and unique ritual. The railway minister (a portfolio that exists in few democracies nowadays) presents the “railway budget” to the lower house for its approval. A packed chamber hangs on the minister's every word.
17 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Living within planetary boundaries
THIS year, New York City had the coldest winter in decades. The US National Weather Service informed that in February 2015 the average temperature was 24.1 degrees Fahrenheit, which is the highest in 80 years.
15 March 2015, 18:00 PM
The gods of glitter
During my late teens and early twenties I was obsessed with the dream of a free, secular and democratic Bangladesh.
14 March 2015, 18:00 PM
How to defeat ISIS
Many months and thousands of airstrikes after the US Administration proclaimed its intent to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the
14 March 2015, 18:00 PM