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
23 October 2025, 15:00 PM
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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
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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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Those disfigured public figures
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” Oscar Wilde reminded us of this universal truth with these witty words, which are timeless and wholesome at the same time.
29 December 2021, 18:00 PM
The Bangladesh story
Bangladesh is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Once called a “basket case” by Henry Kissinger, it is now considered as a role model.
29 December 2021, 18:00 PM
COP26 agreed rules on trading carbon emissions, but they’re fatally flawed
One surprise from COP26—the latest UN climate change conference in Glasgow—was an agreement between world leaders on a new set of rules for regulating carbon markets. This would allow countries to trade the right to emit greenhouse gases.
29 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Brunt of Covid-19 on female-headed households
“My life is full of struggles and misery; I don’t think I’ll ever be happy.”, Aliya Begum, head of her household, narrates sadly.
28 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Christmas finally arrives in Saudi Arabia
Long banned, Christmas has finally—at least tacitly—arrived in Saudi Arabia; just don’t use the name in marketing or be ostentatious about your tree.
28 December 2021, 18:00 PM
The crime of negligence
In the early hours of December 24, the deadliest launch fire in Bangladesh’s history wreaked havoc on the launch MV Abhijan 10, burning so many people alive; as of December 28 afternoon, the death toll from the tragedy stood at 42, with more than 50 people still missing.
28 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Can Bangladesh leapfrog into the future with 4IR?
American geographer Jared Diamond makes an interesting point in his bestseller “Guns, Germs, and Steel.”
27 December 2021, 18:00 PM
A capital crime may have been committed
This is what we know: It was a recorded telephone call. The caller is a male, and so is the recipient.
27 December 2021, 18:00 PM
India’s Omicron challenge on multiple fronts
Since the first Omicron case of Covid-19 was detected in Karnataka on December 2, instances of the most rapidly mutating and contagious variant of the disease have been on the rise across India.
27 December 2021, 18:00 PM
The strong women of tea gardens
It was midday on October 6, 2018. A woman was sitting under a mahogany tree at Sreemangal Upazila Health Complex in Moulvibazar. Another woman was holding a newborn wrapped in a blanket.
26 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Circularity in SMEs: The what, why, and how
The world is being plagued by a global pandemic, climate change, biodiversity loss, rising demand for food and scarcity of natural resources, to name a few. Our irresponsible consumption and production are the root causes of humanity’s multifarious problems.
25 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Let us not become dependent on LNG import
A decreasing volume of annual natural gas production from the gas fields of Bangladesh means that the country is moving towards joining the net energy importers club sooner than one would have liked to think.
25 December 2021, 18:00 PM
A new powerful ‘eye’ in the sky
Today, we are at the threshold of a great “astronomical revolution”—a revolution that will show the universe in a completely new light.
24 December 2021, 18:00 PM
‘To respect Bangabandhu, we must instil his values in our lives’
Bangladesh hosted the World Peace Conference in Dhaka on December 4-5, 2021, inviting renowned peace and rights activists from across the world.
24 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Our education in the next 50 years
It has been a season of reviewing and reminiscing about the past 50 years since independence and projecting into the future with expectation and hope.
23 December 2021, 18:00 PM
The political rumblings in India over 1971
As a teenage school student in 1971 living in Delhi, I had a limited idea about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
23 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Hummus with a deep ‘h’: The many faces of colonisation
As we near the end of 2021, I look back at the attack on the West Bank city of Gaza that took place in May this year, and how it shifted the way the world perceives the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
23 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Technology can help eradicate child marriage
In recent times, particularly during the pandemic, Bangladesh has seen an exponential rise in the number of child marriages across the country. The efforts of both the government and non-government organisations (NGOs) have done little to change this reality.
22 December 2021, 18:00 PM
How to reconstitute the Election Commission
As Bangladesh makes strides to reach upper-middle-income status, now is the opportune time to focus on achieving the status of a developed democracy—the cornerstone of the Bengalis’ and Bangabandhu’s dream of Sonar Bangla.
22 December 2021, 18:00 PM
The backbone of Bangladesh’s development
On December 18, 2021, we observed International Migrants Day.
22 December 2021, 18:00 PM