Yasser Arafat: Modern era’s Saladin

The west saw him as a terrorist; to the rest of the world he was an intrepid warrior trying relentlessly to right the wrong his nation was done in 1948.
10 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Can Biden fix the economy and kill the virus at the same time?

While the recent US Presidential Election has left a number of issues unresolved, one thing is clear.
10 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Trump is playing a dangerous game

“Election is free and fair if I win it and rigged if I lose”. I wrote this sentence many times during our period of contested elections under the caretaker government system.
10 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Have we forgotten the Bangladeshis trapped in Velika Kladusa?

If someone looks up Velika Kladusa on Pinterest, they’ll find lovely photos of the town and its beautiful landscape.
9 November 2020, 18:00 PM

US Elections: Representation matters but it is not enough

Before the elections, a five-year-old boy asked his mother, my friend, if he would ever be able to be the President of the United States because of the colour of his Brown skin. This is a question that American girls, too, have been asking their parents forever.
8 November 2020, 18:00 PM

USA’s climate commitment in the Biden era

As the Democrat Presidential candidate Joe Biden wins the US election, expectations are mounting on several fronts.
8 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Can Biden restore America’s lost soul?

The 2020 US Presidential election has been perhaps the most closely contested election that came down to the wire.
8 November 2020, 18:00 PM

What changes does the recent ordinance make to our law on violence against women?

On 13 October 2020, our central law dealing with violence against women, i.e. Nari o Shishu Nirjatan Daman Ain 2000 (Women and Children Repression Prevention Act 2000) was amended for the second time since it was enacted, by an ordinance.
7 November 2020, 18:00 PM

US Elections: Understanding its hidden message

By the time this article goes to print, Joe Biden, the Democratic Party candidate, may have scraped through the race for the White House.
5 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Sarwar’s abduction: A chilling message for journalists

Late in the evening on November 1, 2020, journalist Golam Sarwar, who went missing on October 29, was found unconscious near a canal at Sitakunda, Chattogram.
4 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Postponing COP26 cannot postpone climate action

The 26th annual Conference of Parties (COP26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was supposed to have been held this week in Glasgow, Scotland under the chairmanship of the government of the United Kingdom.
3 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Realities of Bangladesh-India relations

In an interview published by The Daily Star on October 27, Dr Ahsan Mansur, while discussing the recent IMF revelation that Bangladesh is set to surpass India in terms of per capita GDP, said something very interesting.
3 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Jail Killing Day: The indelible shame

The brutal killings of four national leaders by misguided soldiers inside Dhaka Central Jail in the early hours of November 3, 1975, remain an indelible shame on the national psyche.
2 November 2020, 18:00 PM

The political pendulum is rigged to swing back

In an article in August 2018, I argued that emerging political leaders, because of the unique socioeconomic reality in which they grew up, might be more likely to accept change and less likely to default to norms and practices pursued by their boomer predecessors.
2 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Circular economy is here to stay, so embrace it!

In the past 12 months, we have seen overwhelming commitments made by the global apparel industry towards circular economy and making fashion circular.
1 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Journalism remains fraught with risks and persecution

For 45-year-old Ilias Hossain, there was nothing unusual about October 11—until things took a deadly turn.
1 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Challenges to sustainable financing for South Asian countries

The global financial landscape has been under stress for a long time.
1 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Why are former Tazreen workers still on the streets?

For the last 45 days, at least 40 (former) workers of Tazreen Fashions Limited have been staging a protest on the sidewalks outside the Press Club, unnoticed, for the most part, by the media.
1 November 2020, 18:00 PM

SDGs, the tyranny of sameness, and a lesson for World Cities Day

Yesterday was World Cities Day (WCD). In 2013, the United Nations General Assembly designated October 31 as WCD to build global awareness of the challenges that cities around the world face.
31 October 2020, 18:00 PM

BECA, the Indo-Pacific bandwagon and Bangladesh

Lenin once said that “there are decades where nothing happens and weeks where decades happen.
31 October 2020, 18:00 PM