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30 January 2026, 00:49 AM
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Confrontational election politics shows that little has changed
30 January 2026, 00:56 AM
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30 January 2026, 01:07 AM
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Bangladesh’s T20 snub: ICC failed a key test of sporting governance
29 January 2026, 01:04 AM
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29 January 2026, 01:10 AM
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Opinion / The UAP incident shows systemic erosion of academic integrity
29 January 2026, 01:14 AM
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29 January 2026, 01:16 AM
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MACRO MIRROR
Tribute / Remembering Mark Tully, the trusted chronicler of 1971
28 January 2026, 00:04 AM
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Opinion / Backlash at the ballot: Why women are being shut out of politics
28 January 2026, 00:14 AM
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I will not call them protesters
The infiltrators were handed the opportunity on a silver platter the moment BCL ensured that violence took over the movement.
25 July 2024, 06:24 AM
A man-made disaster and the major economic losses it caused
While the micro and messo levels of losses are immediate and short term, macro level losses would be medium to long term.
25 July 2024, 06:00 AM
The government should take responsibility for its mistakes
The government wasted time while the violence continued.
25 July 2024, 05:11 AM
An independent Bangladesh is enough for me
As a grandchild of a freedom fighter, I would have felt ashamed to use the quota after so many lost their lives over this issue.
24 July 2024, 11:48 AM
Bring those who ordered the excessive use of force to account
It is critical that there should be proper accounting for who authorised this kind of use of force, which has been excessive and disproportionate
24 July 2024, 11:28 AM
Road safety and a nation’s betrayal of its youth
Since 2019, a staggering 5,619 students have lost their lives on our roads
24 July 2024, 09:00 AM
What are the implications of revised export figures?
Since FY2022, actual export earnings emerging from the banking sector data were significantly lower than the figures reported by the EPB.
24 July 2024, 08:47 AM
When a quick buck reigns supreme
The cloud of dystopia thickens as public perception connects the dotted line between pervasive corruption, greed, inefficiency and ineptitude.
24 July 2024, 08:00 AM
What lies ahead for the nation
The students’ awakening was unsurprising for those with some political sensibility left.
24 July 2024, 07:07 AM
Money laundering and its effect on Bangladesh’s inflation
Inflation, which erodes the purchasing power for consumers as well as businesses, happens in two ways.
24 July 2024, 06:38 AM
Govt failed to handle the situation properly
The government handled the issue from an egoistic stance, and made several wrong decisions while tackling the situation
24 July 2024, 06:20 AM
Protests, deaths and a collective breakdown
It is a special kind of horror to see the semi-abstract theories you studied for your semi-abstract major come to life, and begin to apply to events 20 minutes away from you.
23 July 2024, 18:00 PM
Move away from blame game and confrontational power politics
The Appellate Division verdict of July 21 has opened the scope for resolution of the main issue around the demands coming from the quota reform movement.
22 July 2024, 18:00 PM
What happened in DU on Wednesday
There was smoke everywhere, and I heard gunshots.
19 July 2024, 03:00 AM
Govt has completely failed to understand the youth
What is happening in Bangladesh right now is truly unfathomable.
19 July 2024, 02:00 AM
What happened on Wednesday: An account from JU
I wonder if this is how the nights must have felt during those nine months of the Liberation War.
18 July 2024, 13:08 PM
Universities and the government have failed the students
The responsibility for this bloodshed cannot be avoided by either the government or the university authorities.
18 July 2024, 10:50 AM
Dying for a systemic change
There is a serious governance failure in dealing with the student demands for merit-based recruitment system in Bangladesh’s government jobs.
18 July 2024, 08:23 AM
Quota reform resurgence: Stop violence against students
The government is complicating and antagonising a solvable proposition by ordinary citizens
17 July 2024, 08:49 AM
Is political violence transforming Awami League?
These latest developments add to the concerns over the increasing tendency towards intolerance and the preference for violent means to suppress any dissent.
17 July 2024, 03:00 AM