The future of Bengal Delta
31 January 2026, 08:43 AM
Big Picture
Is a global goal on adaptation possible?
29 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Column
Can we make lockdown work this time around?
28 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Column
It’s time to talk about cotton
27 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Column
Managing environmental resources for green growth in Bangladesh
27 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Column
Why can’t they get their fair share in our budget?
26 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Column
Have we done enough to address the problem of drug abuse?
25 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Column
Street violence and gang culture 2.0
25 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Column
Fighting the Delta variant: Do we have a plan?
22 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Column
Apparel industry needs a clearer strategy for donor funding
20 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Column
2016: A new beginning for the world and Bangladesh
The year 2015 that has just ended has been a landmark year for both the development as well as climate change discourse at the global
23 January 2016, 18:00 PM
The stone hearts
“It seemed to me that people in the cars do not have empathy for people. While they screamed at me, the pedestrians and poorer ones came to help. What will we do with this so-called education and social status?” Saif writes after the injured man whom three hospitals declined to treat died in his car.
23 January 2016, 10:23 AM
Conspirators active but situation under control: Home Minister
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says that conspiracies at home and abroad were still going on to turn the country into a failed state.
23 January 2016, 09:32 AM
Public order and its discontents
A concerned commentator feels uneasy at the modus operandi of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police in laying down conditions for holding...
22 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Tomatoes bring prosperity to Jamuna char villages, finally
When the local farmers of Nayapara village, situated on Jamuna River char lands and part of Phulbari union in Bogra's Sariakandi upazila,
21 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Tired of waiting for bridge repair
Locals through their voluntary service have made usable a bridge on Pakhimara canal under Kalapara upazila, after getting tired of long
21 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Training: More than a free lunch
Let's face it, training is not the first thing people think of doing when they have some free time, no matter how easy it is to access...
20 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Rejected foreign oranges on sale at Burimari land port
Huge quantities of rejected oranges illegally brought from Bhutan and India see open sale in Burimari land port area of Patgram upazila under the district, posing risk to the consumers.
20 January 2016, 18:00 PM
An unlikely patch of green in a grey mega city
Sufia Akhter Jahan is passionate about her garden. Vegetables, fruits and herbs, she knows when each variety is thirsty or needs
20 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Not-So-Sweet-16 “scenarios”
A forty-six page report is supposed to be impressive. An educated guess would indicate that there are at least twenty thousand words in there...
19 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Lone ambulance lies unrepaired for a year
The only ambulance of Bandarban Sadar Hospital has been lying unrepaired for the last year as many of its parts have been damaged,
19 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Late blight disease worries potato growers
Potato growers of Thakurgaon and Panchagarh districts are worried due to attack of late blight disease at different villages of the two
19 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Birds unimpressed by Nilsagar sanctuary
Octogenarian Bishumuddin Mia of Nilphamari's Dhopadanga village isn't old enough to recall when the large tank once called Binna
19 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Saudi-Iran spat incites sectarianism
The Arab Spring had deeply destabilised the Middle East. A new dimension was added to the existing instability on January 4, 2016, when the (Sunni) Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) severed diplomatic ties with (Shia) Iran.
17 January 2016, 18:00 PM
The environment we live in
Two reports appeared on the same day. Sal forests in Gazipur are heavily degraded. They have reduced by 79 percent within a decade.
17 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Apples served badly
The valiant role of police in general in our War of Liberation, the distinctive valour with which some of them fought for the cause of our
16 January 2016, 18:00 PM
35 cows in Aditmari UZ die in a week
At least 35 cows have died of foot and mouth disease (FMD) at six villages in Aditmari upazila in Lalmonirhat district in the last one week while around one thousand cows in five upazilas of the district have been infected.
16 January 2016, 18:00 PM
The sinister collaborators of 1971
Believers know full well that patriotism is an inseparable part of faith. That being so, persons accused of crimes against humanity in 1971 have quite manifestly defied and defiled their own faith.
14 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Crisis of quality seeds worries boro farmers in 5 N dists
Farmers of five northern districts including Nilphamari are facing crisis of quality boro seeds at the onset of the cultivation season as
14 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh moves up the climate change knowledge ladder
The climate change research community in Bangladesh, which consists of several dozen organisations, including public and private universities...
13 January 2016, 18:00 PM