Women at the Forefront: Shaping Climate Action in Bangladesh
5 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Breaking Barriers: Recognize and Empower Women Fisherfolks
29 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Police reform hinges on independent commission
20 September 2025, 18:14 PM
Star roundtable on LDC graduation / Reform or brace for setbacks
15 September 2025, 18:18 PM
Star roundtable-3 / Simpler rules key to smooth transition from LDC
2 September 2025, 18:11 PM
It's a national crisis
28 August 2025, 21:42 PM
Service barriers, financing gaps stifle young entrepreneurs
28 August 2025, 21:40 PM
Skills, compliance, and coordination vital for agro export readiness
26 August 2025, 18:00 PM
No emission goals without sustainable land management
25 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Towards an Agricultural Price Commission: Safeguarding Farmers’ Livelihoods
24 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Sustainable solutions to overcome the effects of Coronavirus pandemic on the construction sector
Bangladesh’s construction sector is set to face challenging times because of the coronavirus pandemic as it would slow down the economy, disrupt development activities and put workers out of jobs.
30 May 2020, 18:00 PM
COVID-19 pandemic: Situation of working people, challenges and way forward to future of work
The current situation of COVID-19 pandemic has caused most countries of the world to close their borders. The global supply chain has hence been severely impacted. Now, one main issue is the drastic decrease in remittance from our migrant workers, with a fall of USD 170 million.
20 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Agent banking solutions during coronavirus pandemic
Agent banking is quite a recent addition to banking services but it has already made waves in our community in terms of user number, agent points, and number of transactions.
10 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Digital payment solutions during coronavirus pandemic
Today’s discussion will focus on how we can make the best use of our existing digital payment structure during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
29 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Making finance resilient to the smallholder farmers
We are still a heavily agro-based society and economy. Perhaps the most neglected are those that are feeding this economy – the farmers.
4 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Coronavirus Pandemic: Tasks Ahead
The times are different. The whole world is different. We have never faced a situation like this before. In a sense, we are all confused. As a responsible newspaper, we want to communicate authentic information to the public. The public needs to know what the tasks ahead are.
22 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Progress and Challenges in TB Control Programme
Tuberculosis (TB) is a global public health issue, with Bangladesh being among the 30 high burden TB countries.
9 March 2020, 18:00 PM
#EachforEqual
Although Bangladesh has progressed a lot in terms of women’s empowerment in the past 10 years, to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030,
8 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Preventing discrimination and harassment of women at workplace
Millions of women across the world face sexual harassment at work. Even though reports indicate high levels of harassment incidents, more than one in three countries do not have any laws against harassment in the workplace.
6 March 2020, 18:00 PM
End violence against women and girls: Sharing ideas about workplace violence prevention
In Bangladesh, the proliferation of informal work has opened the doors for many women to find work. However, this has its negative sides.
3 January 2020, 18:00 PM
End violence against women and girls: Sharing ideas about workplace violence prevention
In Bangladesh, the proliferation of informal work has opened the doors for many women to find work. However, this has its negative sides.
3 January 2020, 18:00 PM
The challenges faced by women-led SMEs and the way forward
The SMEs operating in Bangladesh are important contributors to the economy’s booming sectors including industry, service and manufacturing.
31 December 2019, 18:00 PM
Construction Hazard: Creating awareness and the role of stakeholders
RFL Pipe & Fittings (a brand of RFL Group) in association with The Daily Star organised a roundtable titled “Construction Hazard:
Creating awareness and the role of stakeholders” on December 12, 2019. Here we publish a summary of the discussion.
28 December 2019, 18:00 PM
Prospect of Digital Platforms in Getting Service-Related Information and Providing Feedback
Save the Children has been working all across the globe for the last 100 years to ensure the rights of the children.
6 December 2019, 18:00 PM
Realizing population goals: Translating strategies to actions
Bangladesh Population Policy 2012 has six objectives and 16 strategies, with most strategies having 10-12 sub-texts. Therefore, there are actually 75 strategies.
4 December 2019, 18:00 PM
Triggering digital transformation: Reducing operating cost and expanding customer base
We have been supporting various innovations for the last three to four years. We are now at a stage where many business models are generating useful information about how to help small businesses.
4 December 2019, 18:00 PM
The business partner of the future
Today, we are discussing the future of finance, and the ever-evolving job of a finance manager. We have to try to create pathways for future chief financial officers (CFOs) in the era of artificial intelligence to become business controllers, planning managers and heads.
3 December 2019, 18:00 PM
Use and misuse of defamation law and its impact on journalism
In a democratic society, we need defamation laws to protect individual reputation from false allegations. Unfortunately, in many cases, both in Bangladesh and abroad, this law is often misused to impose restrictions and curtail freedom of expression. It is high time we discussed how to prevent the misuse of this law.
25 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Investment in Skills in 8th Five-Year Plan
There is no alternative to skills training when it comes to utilising new technologies in skills development.
19 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Enabling fruits and vegetable export to improve farm income
Bangladesh has already achieved food security in staple crops like rice, potatoes, and vegetables. Bangladesh is the third largest growing vegetable producer and the tenth largest tropical fruit producer in the world.
19 November 2019, 18:00 PM