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
Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury: His journey towards ‘immortality’ began at 17
On February 21, 1952, police opened fire upon the Bangali population that sought their birthright—a right to use their own mother language. A boy of 17, and a Dhaka College HSC student at the time, Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury had rushed to the hospital to visit the injured.
21 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Moral policing: A zombie virus
What the Narsingdi Railway incident really reveals about our society's attitude towards women.
21 May 2022, 06:24 AM
But where do the children play?
Since the pandemic began and schools were shut down, my sole worry was my niece’s well-being. Will she become isolated? Will she be able to remain physically fit? Could she go into depression?
20 May 2022, 18:00 PM
How is Sri Lanka’s youth dealing with the economic crisis?
With the economic crisis in Sri Lanka fuelling deplorable conditions, a widespread protest movement has emerged across the island nation, led mostly by its youth.
19 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Tea workers’ suffering is not just a labour issue
On May 20, 1921, around 3,000 tea labourers were waiting at Chandpur railway station.
19 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Violence in Bangladesh: The picture is disturbing, the wounds are deeper
If Marcellus saw the picture of college students brutalising an innocent man, he would surely have said to Hamlet that “something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
18 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Will money laundering continue to haunt us?
PK Halder, the former MD of a bank and a notorious embezzler, siphoned off and laundered about Tk 10,000-11,000 crore out of Bangladesh. That’s equivalent to the combined yearly budget of 51 public universities of the country, which is Tk 10,515.71 crore.
18 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Europe’s colonial history and double standard
Commemorating Europe Day, European mission heads in Bangladesh jointly penned an opinion piece published by The Daily Star on May 9.
18 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Of grief, longing and 'Chiltey Roud'
Grief can be both excruciating and cathartic.
18 May 2022, 14:00 PM
Engaging with Myanmar’s military based on strategic calculations
No doubt, finding an early and sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis is a "top priority" issue for Bangladesh right now.
18 May 2022, 09:24 AM
Why don’t we care about research?
“If we knew what it is we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” said Albert Einstein. Indeed, research gives us a glimpse of what the future might hold through the study of the information available in the present.
16 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Sri Lanka: Debt crisis, neocolonialism and geopolitical rivalry
Sri Lanka is in the throes of an unprecedented economic crisis.
16 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Potential Overturning of Roe vs Wade: Let women have agency over their own bodies
A leaked draft opinion shows that the US Supreme Court is set to overturn Roe vs Wade and Planned Parenthood vs Casey, two Supreme Court decisions that guarantee the federal constitutional protection of the right to abortion.
15 May 2022, 18:00 PM
So what if taka slides against dollar?
There is nothing to be panicked about if taka slides further against the dollar.
15 May 2022, 18:00 PM
The darker side of RTI in Bangladesh
Today, we turn away from the positive and encouraging side of the Right to Information movement in Bangladesh, depicted in our previous column (The Daily Star, April 16, 2022), to peer into the shadows.
14 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Celebrating Fulbright Program on the golden jubilee of US-Bangla partnership
Recently, Bangladesh and the United States have celebrated half a century of their multifaceted partnership.
14 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Time to focus on women’s sexual health and rights
Bangladesh has made significant progress in the last two decades in improving the lives of women and girls.
13 May 2022, 18:00 PM
How Moscow helped Washington win a strategic battle against China
But it exposes Washington’s desperation, typical of a declining power
13 May 2022, 13:44 PM
Time for a fresh look at the UN
On April 24, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin visited Ukraine to discuss military aid with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
12 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Don’t normalise living in fear
Bangladesh is a nation that is being carried almost entirely by the labour of its underprivileged and uneducated people, who slave away at garment factories and toil abroad to send back remittances.
12 May 2022, 18:00 PM