Column by Mahfuz Anam / Yunus, Charter, and Our Future
23 October 2025, 18:30 PM
Opinion
Can Trump’s Gaza ceasefire redefine peace in Middle East?
23 October 2025, 14:00 PM
Opinion
The dilemma triangle of our tertiary education
23 October 2025, 07:00 AM
Opinion
MIND THE GAP / A bitter brew: Climate change and the decline of Sylhet’s tea gardens
23 October 2025, 06:00 AM
Opinion
Ports for private profit or national progress?
23 October 2025, 03:00 AM
Opinion
New data regulations warrant urgent rethinking
22 October 2025, 06:29 AM
Opinion
Opinion / 'Apnar Orna Koi?': How identity politics targets women
22 October 2025, 06:00 AM
Opinion
Opinion / Uniforms do not outrank the constitution
22 October 2025, 04:00 AM
Opinion
National Road Safety Day / ‘Road deaths cannot be reduced without BRTA reform’
22 October 2025, 03:00 AM
Opinion
The unfinished revolution for women's political rights
23 October 2025, 04:00 AM
Opinion
Laldia deal, a missed opportunity to set an example
The deal started as an unsolicited bid from Maersk Group, the parent company of APM Terminals, in 2023.
2 December 2025, 07:00 AM
Packaging the patriarchal gaze as 'relatable' content
Because these posts and memes normalise a specific emotional image of women— impulsive, dramatic, unstable, and self-absorbed.
2 December 2025, 06:00 AM
Why we should prioritise Matarbari over Bay Terminal development
Bangladesh's port congestion has long shaped the popular perception that our maritime gateways are straining under unmanageable pressure.
2 December 2025, 04:00 AM
Has our ADP governance gone backwards?
In this context of heightened public expectation, it is important to recall how the ADP evolved under the previous government.
2 December 2025, 02:00 AM
COP30: A milestone marked by missed chances
The summit’s two highest-stakes issues, fossil fuel phaseout and deforestation, were effectively sidelined.
1 December 2025, 05:00 AM
Time to introduce a one-stop digital financial service for migrants
What we need is a unified digital ecosystem.
1 December 2025, 04:00 AM
Are our schools inherently designed to fail?
School management suffers due to the absence of a headmaster or an assistant headmaster's leadership
1 December 2025, 02:00 AM
Ducsu should be able to play a stronger role in ensuring quality food
Ducsu constitution should be reformed to ensure its effective participation in student welfare activities.
30 November 2025, 06:00 AM
When will the news media dare to question itself?
Self-regulation is a moral and accountable means through which the media makes itself responsible to the public
30 November 2025, 05:00 AM
Beyond apparel: How Bangladesh can develop new exports
Bangladesh's economic diversification has remained a goal rather than an outcome for decades.
30 November 2025, 04:00 AM
COP30, profit over people, and growing climate threats
After COP30, the much-needed transition away from fossil fuels still seems unachievable.
30 November 2025, 02:00 AM
As COP falters, South Asia must build its own collaborative climate platform
Climate action is no longer a matter of policy debate but one of how it can be done most cost-effectively.
29 November 2025, 07:00 AM
Civil registration system needs a citizen-centred upgrade
Every year, lakhs of birth certificates are issued to establish the civil identity of citizens, and this document later becomes essential for obtaining a National ID (NID) card.
29 November 2025, 06:00 AM
Uniting for safe digital spaces for women and girls
16 Days of Activism against GBV under the theme "UNiTE to End Digital Violence against All Women and Girls calls for urgent action.
29 November 2025, 04:00 AM
The birth pang of a university
DCU must move beyond colonial-era templates for public universities.
29 November 2025, 02:00 AM
Cyber laws should shield women, not stifle speech
From November 25 to December 10 each year, the United Nations urges governments to go beyond slogans and tackle violence against women. This year, the UN's UNiTE campaign has shifted focus to a newer frontline: the internet.
27 November 2025, 06:00 AM
After Narsingdi’s jolt, a national push for seismic resilience is overdue
Bangladesh’s window for earthquake preparedness is rapidly closing.
27 November 2025, 05:00 AM
Safety for the vulnerable must not be sacrificed to populist politics
: A society where women live in pervasive fear cannot credibly be described as harmonious, and this is where political pledges diverge from the lived realities of women.
27 November 2025, 04:00 AM
Time to recognise the emotional toll of river erosion
People in erosion-prone districts suffer mental health consequences of riverbank erosion.
27 November 2025, 02:00 AM
How interlinked crises are driving a more unequal and unstable world
All these phenomena not only impact the environmental sustainability of our planet, but also affect the global inequality and instability.
26 November 2025, 05:00 AM