As Gaza fades from headlines, a flotilla reminds us that silence is not peace
29 April 2026, 15:44 PM
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Is Bangladesh-US trade deal a backdoor for GMO dumping?
29 April 2026, 10:00 AM
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How the Kabinnama can protect Bangladeshi Muslim women’s rights
29 April 2026, 11:00 AM
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The capacity-competence disconnect in Bangladesh's power sector
29 April 2026, 13:00 PM
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Energy crisis demands strict budget discipline now
29 April 2026, 08:00 AM
MACRO MIRROR
What fuel loading at Rooppur means for our energy future
28 April 2026, 08:00 AM
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Tribute / Remembering Raghu Rai and the light he left behind
28 April 2026, 09:00 AM
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A roadmap to boost foreign direct investment in Bangladesh
28 April 2026, 11:00 AM
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Bangladesh, the IMF-World Bank nexus, and the political economy of reform
28 April 2026, 10:00 AM
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Bangladesh’s food insecurity warning cannot be ignored
27 April 2026, 09:00 AM
Opinion
Detention of student coordinators: Was it really for their security?
On that evening, the student activists were scheduled to brief the media about the ongoing movement.
29 July 2024, 08:45 AM
First budget of Modi govt 3.0: Political exigencies and beyond
India’s annual budget is always as much an economic statement as it is political.
29 July 2024, 03:00 AM
The government must stop harassing the youth
The government showed us how to take a solvable problem and make it complicated
29 July 2024, 02:00 AM
The prolonged internet shutdown sets a dangerous precedent
It represents a grave threat to democracy and human rights that demands urgent attention.
28 July 2024, 10:30 AM
Can Bangladesh women’s cricket team rise from the ashes of the crushing semifinal defeat?
Bangladesh faced India in the semifinal of this year’s Asia Cup looking to recreate magic and failed by a large margin.
28 July 2024, 07:54 AM
Factors that may cause bank run in Bangladesh
A recent study was carried out to discover the factors that may cause bank run in Bangladesh.
28 July 2024, 06:00 AM
We cannot let ourselves become comfortably numb
With our collective inability to pay attention, it is not that unlikely that we will forget this too.
28 July 2024, 04:00 AM
An entity showing serious cracks
Whatever progressive image the ruling party had tried to build for itself has been severely fractured
28 July 2024, 02:00 AM
The (reformed) quota scheme, our state, and the marginalised
History shows how the “woman question”, “indigenous question”, “transgender question”, and “disabled question” get subsumed in the midst of dominant voices
27 July 2024, 12:00 PM
Impunity for authoritarians fuels political violence
While the attempted assassinations of Trump and Fico have caused many liberals to tone down their rhetoric, such reactions miss the point.
27 July 2024, 09:30 AM
We are all biomass
We all know that we are part of nature and fully dependent on it for our survival, yet this recognition does not translate into action.
27 July 2024, 06:00 AM
Can we expect some accountability from the government?
Last week’s political violence in Bangladesh was by far the worst I have seen since I first visited and fell in love with this country 15 years ago.
27 July 2024, 05:00 AM
A generation's fight in the shadows of quota
The movement was no longer about quotas; it was about justice.
27 July 2024, 04:00 AM
How can the rulers erase so much bloodstain?
Why did the situation escalate last week, resulting in so many deaths and injuries?
27 July 2024, 01:00 AM
IMF’s assessment and the real risks for Bangladesh’s economy
Risk assessments of the kind done by the IMF are not usually done by the government, although it would have been desirable.
26 July 2024, 05:00 AM
The shifting political field and the price of permanent war
Is it not easier to defeat your enemies in parliament than to be permanently on the warpath against some shapeshifting enemy?
26 July 2024, 04:00 AM
Column by Mahfuz Anam: Are we going to learn from our mistakes or keep repeating them?
What is said by the power and what is believed by the people may not be the same.
25 July 2024, 18:30 PM
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