Advance tax on retailers: A smart reform or a burden on businesses?
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A bigger ADP, but can Bangladesh make it work?
24 June 2026, 09:00 AM
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Bangladesh’s digital future can’t be built without addressing women’s fear
24 June 2026, 12:00 PM
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Amid water-sharing uncertainty, rainwater harvesting deserves greater focus
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FY2026-27 budget targets: A bridge too far?
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Why Keir Starmer's fall should surprise no one
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Public universities are still rationing women’s freedom
24 June 2026, 08:00 AM
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Starmer’s resignation signals constraint, not virtue
24 June 2026, 11:00 AM
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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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The Trump Effect Takes Europe
Perhaps Trump’s biggest contribution has been to Europe’s political unity.
20 February 2024, 14:00 PM
Help our youth seize the window of opportunity
To achieve the highest possible level of economic growth, engaging the youth is crucial.
20 February 2024, 03:00 AM
Blood, oil, and sand: The US' colonisation of Iraq
What are US troops doing in Iraq in the first place? And do they have a right to be there?
20 February 2024, 02:00 AM
The farce of expressing PCI in taka
This is nothing more than a poor trick that will eventually produce no real gain.
20 February 2024, 01:00 AM
‘Russia has my blood’
Alexei Navalny in an interview with Dozhd TV in October 2020, two months after he was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent.
20 February 2024, 00:00 AM
Are social media platforms encouraging impulse buying?
Social media platforms are predominantly designed for consumers rather than businesses
19 February 2024, 04:00 AM
Why do university graduates remain unemployed?
The responsibility for the current employability skills gap in Bangladesh is shared by many parties, including students and the UGC.
19 February 2024, 02:02 AM
Of translation
The challenge of untranslatability is something that the translator has to contend with throughout the process of the enterprise.
18 February 2024, 03:11 AM
On the 2024 farmers’ protest in India
Thousands of farmers from Punjab and Haryana have taken to the streets again, just over two years after their previous year-long agitation.
18 February 2024, 01:00 AM
Preeti Urang: A child worker’s death
There should be protests, and a strong stance should be taken against such incidents
17 February 2024, 13:00 PM
The dairyman that won our hearts
It doesn’t get sweeter than a 90-year-old curd seller being awarded the second highest civilian award in Bangladesh, the Ekushey Padak.
17 February 2024, 03:58 AM
Indecisiveness will cost us
From the onset of this current crisis, too, we saw indecisiveness from our policymakers
17 February 2024, 02:00 AM
No one wins in a lose-lose world
Rather than working together to address urgent challenges, the international community is now gridlocked in colossal global dysfunction.
17 February 2024, 02:00 AM
We must pursue multi-track diplomacy with Myanmar
In the present scenario, we have unfortunately failed in our diplomacy
17 February 2024, 01:30 AM
Has our policy towards Myanmar failed?
There should have been a multilayered approach to the Rohingya issue from the beginning
17 February 2024, 01:00 AM
Our understanding about Myanmar is limited
Neither the Rohingya issue nor the recent developments happened overnight; they have a history.
17 February 2024, 00:30 AM
Myanmar civil war deserves an intelligent response
Being concerned about the Myanmar conflict is understandable, but we cannot be fearful
17 February 2024, 00:00 AM
Will a second Trump presidency really change much?
Former President Donald Trump is widely anticipated to be the Republican nominee for the 2024 US presidential election.
16 February 2024, 03:00 AM
Prohibition of foetus sex detection: A timely and ethical step
This pivotal development addresses the intricate matter of disclosing the sex of foetuses
16 February 2024, 02:00 AM
The contradiction between economic policy and practices
How much can declared policy intentions be taken at face value when simultaneous administrative and political steps signal different intentions?
16 February 2024, 02:00 AM