A bigger ADP, but can Bangladesh make it work?
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Public universities are still rationing women’s freedom
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Don’t leave Kaiputras behind in the name of development
22 June 2026, 09:00 AM
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77 years of Awami League: From people’s vanguard to an autocratic machine
23 June 2026, 11:00 AM
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EVs make economic sense for us, so why is adoption still slow?
23 June 2026, 12:00 PM
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Serajul Islam Choudhury at 91: Critique, commitment, and change
23 June 2026, 08:00 AM
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A case for turning Dhaka's flyovers into rainwater harvesters
22 June 2026, 10:00 AM
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A watchdog without teeth: The problems with the draft NHRC Act
22 June 2026, 08:00 AM
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Budget 2026-2027: A structurally old yet inspirationally new budget
21 June 2026, 10:00 AM
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Is the UK heading for a leadership change at the top?
22 June 2026, 13:00 PM
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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
The irresponsible remarks of our responsible persons
History and ordinary people in general will remember very well what happened over the last week or so.
25 July 2024, 04:00 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
Are we educated merely to continue the cycle?
The vigour of youth emerges because they have not been disillusioned into accepting the deficiencies of the present.
24 July 2024, 10:26 AM
Whom do information blackouts during protests ultimately benefit?
Internet shutdown is one of the major aspects of control that the Awami League government has exercised to curb the protests.
24 July 2024, 09:05 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
Preparing for a Future of Extreme Heat Waves
As climate change accelerates, heat waves are expected to become increasingly frequent and intense
24 July 2024, 08:17 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
A historic decision, but can Kamala Harris beat Trump?
Dropping out of the US election race, Biden endorsed his Vice-President Kamala Harris, who has risen more to the spotlight in the last year
24 July 2024, 07:51 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
Saluting the spirit of our young people
There is no shame in admitting that in the last few days many of us have cried helplessly, over the senseless deaths of students—teenagers or in their early twenties—the same age or close to the ages of our children.
23 July 2024, 18:00 PM
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