Shanghai Cooperation Organisation at 25: Can China, India and Russia really speak with one voice?
6 September 2026
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Geopolitical Insights
Star Interactive / Rivers erase land 5 times the size of Dhaka in 5 decades
6 September 2026
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Environment
Our universities face a crisis bigger than graduate employability
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Views
Energy crisis forces businesses to cut output, seek alternatives
6 September 2026
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Economy
Rajshahi: The story behind Bangladesh’s cleanest city
5 September 2026
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Weekend Read
Where have Bangladesh’s hilsa gone?
5 September 2026
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Unheard Voices
Is being single at 35 a failure?
6 September 2026
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Wisdom
The price of putting childhood on display on social media
5 September 2026
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Views
We keep importing our energy security. Why not build it at home?
5 September 2026
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Opinion
Can Bangladesh afford not to invest in Bhola’s gas?
5 September 2026
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Big Picture
Uberisation of Terror
Uber offers private rides in private cars at your own convenience. It means you don't have to wait for the rain to stop; you don't have to queue up...
14 June 2016
Orlando Shooting: The four words we don't hear enough
When random violence is visited on innocent people, we try to find the right words to respond.
13 June 2016
Conspiracy theories and beyond
The Democratic and Republican parties have made presumptive nominations of their presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
10 June 2016
She was a model
Media trial is a nasty business, and women are its worst victim. Thus, a woman caught with the cough syrup Phensedyl can be reported as 'Phensi Queen' or a girl in possession of methamphetamine tablets will be called 'Yaba Princess'.
7 June 2016
Illusive investments
The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), one of the top think-tanks in the country, has stated in its post-budget assessment that we will
6 June 2016
Of Obesity or Good Health?
The Finance Minister has proposed a mega Tk.3.4 trillion budget for the upcoming fiscal year 2016-17. It is about 29 percent higher than the revised budget of the outgoing fiscal year.
5 June 2016
Revenge of the Bugs
Antibiotic resistance is the new bacterial normal. About a hundred years ago with the discovery of penicillin, the antibiotic revolution commenced the era of modern medicine.
3 June 2016
Iron Lady in the neighbourhood!
Belying speculations at the anti Trinamool camp for a 'vote for change' like the West Bengalees accounted for in 2011, Mamata has swept to a second term with a powerful mandate.
2 June 2016
The bogey of 'illegal migration'
Predictably the issue of 'illegal migration' had featured most predominantly in the latest state elections in Assam.
1 June 2016
No fuss with Fizz, please
With a flower crown on his head, Mustafizur Rahman was flashing his trademark boyish smile to every flash of camera from a
31 May 2016
Bring Back Our Girls
Sabira has been adequately framed as a 'model' and something of a 'wildcard' - who didn't care much about social norms. Her final video, featuring her in a slightly incoherent, vulnerable state, has been branded by online media sites and uploaded endlessly for public display. Not a single voice suggested that her privacy be respected.
30 May 2016
A jarring anomaly of society
It is easy to miss stories about child domestic workers being tortured and killed. Easy because stories of children being killed have become eerily regular.
29 May 2016
At the heart of Superjumbo
If you have ever had the opportunity to fly on the Airbus A380, the biggest jetliner in the world, nicknamed the Superjumbo, then you would love to know that the enormous engines, each producing around 70,000lbs of thrust, of these double-decker planes may contain a critical set of technologies invented by a Bangladesh-born scientist, RifatUllah.
28 May 2016
Kudos to our soldiers
As the UN prepares to celebrate the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers on May 29 this year, Bangladesh will be
28 May 2016
Mobile libraries at doorsteps enlightening Naogaon people
Recently introduced 10 mobile libraries are enlightening the rural people of all 10 unions of Mohadevpur upazila of Naogaon for more
27 May 2016
What happens when living in the void?
Nothing comes from nothing” is a philosophical expression first argued by pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides.
26 May 2016
Going forward - Balance between convenience and security
If we stay attuned to the experts and practitioners working in the financial and banking sectors worldwide, new threats and methods used by the crooks can be neutralised before any damage is done to our own emerging system.
25 May 2016
United in Division
You do not necessarily have to be an Awami League aficionado to appreciate that the two mayors of Dhaka City, albeit split along
23 May 2016
MP plays judge-jury-prosecutor!
An MP – who paradoxically represents the ruling coalition as well as its opposition in the parliament – recently played the proverbial role of the judge, jury and prosecutor.
20 May 2016
The Other News
It's nice to catch glimpses of human sublimity slipping through the cracks of hate and bloodshed. This is not to suggest that news of death and killings and accidents and wars are not important, but only to remind oneself that the news is selective and often parochial.
19 May 2016