Opinion / 'Apnar Orna Koi?': How identity politics targets women
Women’s physical appearance has once again become a battleground for cultural and political power.
Timely election must for economic stability
23 October 2025, 15:00 PM
Zero pass rate a sign of bigger problems
23 October 2025, 05:00 AM
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.
NHRC response to The Daily Star editorial
25 April 2024, 05:00 AM
Destruction of Hargazi Canal
24 April 2024, 08:18 AM
Explainer / Why are BNP, Jamaat, NCP leaders accompanying Yunus to UNGA?
22 September 2025, 06:57 AM
Watch / No provision in the constitution should be outside the purview of judiciary: Mahfuz Anam
2 September 2025, 16:15 PM
How accurate is Trump's claim about $29 million?
25 February 2025, 16:25 PM
‘King's Party’ tag still sticks on BNP: Samantha Sharmin
30 December 2024, 13:29 PM
How could 30,000 foreigners stay here without valid papers?
23 December 2024, 19:27 PM
New Election Commission, Same Old Course?
The Election Commission of Bangladesh has been mired in controversies over the last decade.
13 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Let the Rohingyas set their own narrative
It has been quite clear in various segments of society in Bangladesh that the solution to the Rohingya crisis is becoming a distant dream.
13 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Education in budget 2022-23: Small mercies and dashed hopes
Educators and concerned citizens have been urging a major increase in public allocation for the education sector.
12 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Interfaith harmony is crucial for India
In this great task of re-establishing interfaith harmony as a basic precept, we can learn much from history.
12 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Stripping Odhikar of its rights?
When Bangladesh needs to show that it has been listening to the concerns about respecting human rights and upholding the rule of law, it has done quite the opposite.
12 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh RMG industry: Expansion without a plan would be dangerous
Enhancing production capacity now, without any feasibility studies or without regard to what future headwind we may be facing, would be risky and reckless.
12 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Disney is destroying independent cinema
Racist crows, cotton plantations, non-consensual kissing, whitewashed main characters.
11 June 2022, 18:00 PM
The fault in our idea of progress
Puzzling positive developments in our economic indicators, which hardly delineate the real socioeconomic conditions of the people in Bangladesh, are not new phenomena.
11 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Can university assessment make graduates more employable?
The demands of the labour market are constantly changing, and so are the relative importance of different skills.
10 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Masked finfoot under threat: A canary in the coalmine of climate change
I want to tell you why the loss of a bird somewhere far away from home should bother you.
10 June 2022, 18:00 PM
How to avoid buying LNG from the spot market
We have known for a while that dependence on the expensive liquefied natural gas (LNG) would put Bangladesh under major financial stress.
9 June 2022, 18:00 PM
The twisted plight of Bangladeshi transgender community: A critical error in policymaking
If 'facilities' are really that accessible, why aren't we seeing more transgender people in job roles?
9 June 2022, 18:00 PM
IPEF has something in it for Bangladesh
Historically, Bangladesh has believed in the principle of safety in numbers, and for the right reasons.
8 June 2022, 18:00 PM
The roads of death
Road crashes have become the norm in Bangladesh, claiming lives on a regular basis
8 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Celebrating 50 years of global environmental movement
Stockholm+50, a two-day international conference held last week, was aimed at reconnecting the different strands of the original environmental movement.
7 June 2022, 18:00 PM
A company’s negligence killed 44 people. What price will it pay?
Another brutal reminder that worker safety is last on our list of priorities for our progressive and developing country.
7 June 2022, 05:50 AM
Inflation is not going away anytime soon
The world has entered another era of high inflation, and no country can escape from the heat wave of rising prices.
6 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Foreign minister’s response to US ambassador: A story for all the wrong reasons
The questions suggested by Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen for the US ambassador to Bangladesh were a repetition of unverified claims made by some politicians in their public speeches.
6 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Election 2023: Is the BNP still relevant?
With the next general election due in 2023, nobody really knows whether Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the main political opposition in the country, will participate in it.
6 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Who is afraid of EVMs and why?
CEC Kazi Habibul Awal recently said there was no scope for showing muscle power during voting if the electronic voting machines (EVMs) are used during the 2023 general election in Bangladesh.
6 June 2022, 18:00 PM