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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Ensure access to justice for Bangladeshi migrant workers
Bangladesh is one of the top labour sending countries of the world. In the last decade, the number of Bangladeshis migrating abroad for employment has increased almost 100 times since the mid-1970s, when labour migration to the Gulf region commenced.
2 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Why Bangladesh shouldn’t count on a fossil fuel future
Two astonishing figures have circulated in the Asian energy sector in the past month: LNG prices have increased by 1000 percent since record lows of April 2020, and Vietnam has increased its rooftop solar by 9,000MW within 12 months.
2 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Strategies to tackle pandemic induced poverty in Bangladesh
The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented rise in poverty in Bangladesh in a very short time span.
2 February 2021, 18:00 PM
We need to change how we ‘see’ sexual violence
The stories seem endless. A couple is ambushed in front of a college by multiple perpetrators, who rape the wife while confining the husband.
1 February 2021, 18:00 PM
1.5 to stay alive
It is easy to be fashionably pessimistic about climate change. Many people say they think it is already too late to avoid catastrophe, let alone to meet the relatively ambitious goals enshrined in the Paris Agreement.
1 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Can we look at Bhashan Char through a research lens?
The third batch of Rohingya refugees entered Bhashan Char on January 29 and January 30, 2021. Out of Cox’s Bazar’s 867,000 refugees, about 6,700 have now been voluntarily relocated since December 2020 to this island on the Bay of Bengal.
1 February 2021, 18:00 PM
We need better solutions for maternal health
In the next two minutes, one woman will die from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. She will die from entirely preventable causes during one of the most beautiful moments of human life, giving birth.
31 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Whither global finance? Look at the US dollar
Where is Wall Street going in the post-pandemic world? Finance is supposed to serve the real economy (Main Street), but the US and global economies are in the midst of a pandemic and recession, while Wall Street profits are higher than ever.
30 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Britain’s grim statistics of pandemic
A columnist-turned-politician who has never fallen short of words and expressions, in both writing and speaking, suddenly gave up his attempts to provide an appropriate response to the grim statistics of over 100,000 Covid-19 deaths in Britain.
30 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Islamophobia: A useful prop for Muslim religious soft power
Think the Muslim world is united in opposing Islamophobia? Think twice.
30 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Why is gas exploration stalled in Bangladesh?
Over the last 20 years, Bangladesh consumed about 13 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of gas.
30 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Hugh Brammer: Remembering an exemplary geographer
Hugh Brammer was unique in many ways.
29 January 2021, 18:00 PM
The empty bed: Fighting Covid-19 from an ICU
Nothing had prepared us for this.
29 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Dreams devoured: The tragic disappearance of Zahir Raihan
Eminent novelist and filmmaker Zahir Raihan left for Kolkata after the Pakistani military crackdown in Dhaka on March 25, 1971.
29 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Insecurity: A foreboding shadow for female students
BUET students still remember Sabequn Nahar Sony who was killed in June 2002 during a fight between two rival political groups. Tragically, she died at the hands of a few wayward “students” at the very campus where she went to fulfil her dreams.
28 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Why another era of mainstream liberalism could be fatal
In the words of Amanda Gorman, the youngest poet laureate to read at a presidential inauguration, America is “not broken but simply unfinished”.
28 January 2021, 18:00 PM
A disappointing performance once again
On January 28, 2021, Transparency International released its Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2020. In the index, Bangladesh has scored 26 out of 100, the same as in 2019.
28 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Iranians move into front line of Middle East’s quest for religious change
A recent online survey by scholars at two Dutch universities of Iranian attitudes towards religion has revealed a stunning rejection of state-imposed adherence to conservative religious mores as well as the role of religion in public life.
27 January 2021, 18:00 PM
The case for a four-day workweek
Nordic countries have earned a reputation for experimenting, and in many cases succeeding, in taking their societies beyond traditional economic systems, thereby driving them towards being progressive welfare states.
27 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Are we ready to implement our vaccination plan?
The government has recently unveiled a national plan for vaccination against Covid-19. It has set the target of giving two vaccine doses to each of 130 million people to protect them from the deadly virus.
27 January 2021, 18:00 PM