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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The ABCs of S-E-X
Sex is a taboo subject in our society, but there is a desperate need for nationwide sex education in schools especially, which goes beyond a brief overview of reproduction, and includes concepts like consent, contraception and the various forms of harassment.
15 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Independent Bangladesh was built on values of inclusion and tolerance
I always believed I lived in a tolerant society. What else could one think, growing up in independent Bangladesh?
15 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Declining trust in democratic institutions
The Chief Election Commissioner of the Bangladesh Election Commission (EC) has made it clear that we have an electoral system that is in many ways performing better than that of the United States.
15 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Governmental inertia in ensuring emergency medical services
Not a day passes by in Bangladesh without news of death due to a horrible road crash.
14 November 2020, 18:00 PM
RTI in Bangladesh
Reva Rani of Taraganj Upazila of Rangpur District was determined to bring electricity to her home. But, all her efforts, including payment of “speed money”, failed.
14 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh’s LDC Graduation
The most quoted line of modern English: “To be, or not to be, that is the question . . .”, as is known, is the opening stroke of a soliloquy from William Shakespeare’s celebrated drama The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
14 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Urgent action is required to protect the learning of all South Asian children
School closures in South Asia are threatening the futures of millions of children—and the most marginalised are paying the heaviest price. Governments must prioritise the safe reopening of schools and seize the opportunity to build education back better.
13 November 2020, 18:00 PM
How relevant are academic programmes in universities?
The unemployment rate among university graduates in Bangladesh has risen sharply. A study conducted by the Centre for Policy Dialogue indicated that about 46 percent of the total unemployed youth are university graduates.
12 November 2020, 18:00 PM
US Elections: Fascism has not left the building
I didn’t burst into tears of relief and joy when it was finally announced that Joe Biden Jr. had won the presidency of the United States.
11 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Covid-19 Is a Call for Unity
Covid-19 has swept across the planet like a tsunami. It is up to us how many waves of infection will follow.
11 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Myanmar elections reflect a fractured society
This past week, the world has been transfixed by the high-drama US elections and the soon-to-be ex-President Trump’s temper tantrums, as his opponent Joe Biden slowly overtook him to become the President elect of the United States.
9 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Interplay between science, society and politics
Science is a remarkable tool available to humans for understanding what is true about the world. It expanded the boundaries of our knowledge and challenged our preconceived notions of what reality is.
9 November 2020, 18:00 PM
US elections: Toxic populism challenges democracy
Mark Twain reputedly said that God created wars to teach Americans geography. It can be said that God put Donald Trump in the White House to teach America how to protect democracy.
9 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Joe Biden eyes arduous path after historic election
Never before has a hard-won victory had such a bitter edge.
8 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Milton Friedman versus stakeholder capitalism
Milton Friedman was arguably the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century, associated with promoting “neo-liberal”, free-market, shareholder capitalism.
7 November 2020, 18:00 PM
The 2020 Myanmar Election: Resetting the role of civil society organisations
Notwithstanding the second wave of Covid-19 infections, Myanmar is going ahead with its General Election on November 8.
7 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Historic 2020 US Election: The pandemic vs the economic
The 2020 US Presidential Election held last Tuesday, November 3, will likely go down as among the most important in United States history—for several reasons.
7 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Recognise the tragedy of November 7, 1975
On August 15,1975, at dawn, the sound of gunshots and loud explosions of artillery fired at the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Dhanmondi Road 32 residence shook people awake.
6 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Conflict in Ethiopia extends the Greater Middle East’s arc of crisis
Ethiopia, an African darling of the international community, is sliding towards civil war as the coronavirus pandemic hardens ethnic fault lines. The consequences of prolonged hostilities could echo across East Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
6 November 2020, 18:00 PM
How many more Nodis before we start taking false identification papers seriously?
Last year, 13-year-old Nodi was sent to Saudi Arabia as a migrant worker with a passport that falsely stated her age to be 27.
6 November 2020, 18:00 PM