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
How we turned Amber Heard into a villain
Could a jury that was witness to this lopsided public support for Depp, truly be relied upon to deliver a verdict unencumbered by any of it, as was expected of them?
6 June 2022, 12:13 PM
Issues that should be in focus in budget 2022-23
The finance minister of Bangladesh is scheduled to place the national budget for 2022-23 fiscal year at parliament on June 9.
5 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Break the trend, invest more in children
Too many children in Bangladesh miss out on a childhood and live precarious lives as they are forced to drop out of school, take up hazardous work, or enter into child marriage.
5 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Social protection needs more in next budget
The social protection allocation in the annual budget has consistently increased over the last 14 years. In FY 2008-09, a total of Tk 13,845 crore was allocated for social protection programmes.
4 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Saving our ‘One Earth’ before it’s too late
The global community is preparing to celebrate the 50th World Environment Day today.
4 June 2022, 18:00 PM
‘Mismanagement, benefits to traders destroying our sugar mills’
Moshahida Sultana, associate professor at the Department of Accounting and Information Systems in Dhaka University, has been doing research on the sugar mills in Bangladesh since 2015. In a conversation with Sumon Ali of The Daily Star, she talks about the state of the sugar mills and the country’s sugar production.
3 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Why Bangladesh should adopt Agriculture 4.0
Technologies are getting more affordable with time, allowing farmers in Bangladesh to adopt Agriculture 4.0, which offers much greater efficiency and production potential.
2 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Economic challenges that budget 2022-23 must address
The current global political, economic and trade situations are not favourable for a developing country like Bangladesh.
2 June 2022, 18:00 PM
A new great game begins. Will Bangladesh be in it?
It is too early to conclude if the IPEF is a prelude to Donald Trump's Trans-Pacific Trade agreement in a different cloak.
1 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh needs to be smart about US sanctions
Once the shouts of "conspiracy" and the routine blame games have subsided, we will have to come to terms with the rapidly changing geopolitics, of which these sanctions are symptomatic.
1 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Gun violence in the US: Bullets, politicians and corporate lobbyists
Even the children who have never had a shooting at their own school are not free from the damage.
1 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Russian invasion of Ukraine: Understanding Bangladesh’s position
Bangladesh’s abstention from voting on a resolution on March 2, 2022 is not a diplomatic dilemma.
1 June 2022, 16:00 PM
India’s caste census and the chimera of data-driven policymaking
Caste census, once again, is the talk of the town—at least in the Indian state of Bihar.
1 June 2022, 14:00 PM
When KK was a patch of bright sunshine to me
Whether in a crowd or left alone, KK perfectly reflected that unmistakable sense of yearning and pain for a phase of life which is gone forever.
1 June 2022, 09:42 AM
The testimony of Manik Mia
After the death of journalist Tofazzal Hossain, popularly known as Manik Mia, politician, journalist and litterateur Abul Mansur Ahmad wrote in a commemorative article titled “Jati Je Manik Harailo,” “It didn’t take us long to understand (what a gem we had lost); the countrymen understood it much later.”
31 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Democracy crushed under BCL’s boots?
What earned the JCD such a thrashing?
31 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Why revisit SDG financing strategy in Bangladesh?
Recently, the United Nations published the Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2022, highlighting the slow progress of Covid-19 recovery in developing countries due to fiscal constraints, while developed economies recovered quickly by borrowing a record amount of low-interest loans.
30 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Of Lemon, Soap, Vaseline and EVMs
Should the Election Commission take the controversial route of using EVMs in the next general election?
30 May 2022, 18:00 PM
We need a social business model of medicine production
Patent-free global medicine production is the way to go in order to fight the next pandemic.
30 May 2022, 10:10 AM
On the scale of infinity, how would you rate life?
Miscalculation of rates, a common phenomenon, gives birth to a gamut of complex emotions in our everyday life and in life in general.
29 May 2022, 14:00 PM