Taxing microsavings risks undermining financial inclusion of the poor
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Can sand-filling help coastal households adapt to salinity?
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How much longer must we wait for press freedom?
12 October 2026
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Modernise flood damage assessments to protect haor farmers
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Strengthening consumer protection must go beyond mobile court raids
11 October 2026
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New NCT deal must deliver measurable gains for Bangladesh
11 October 2026
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Tea workers deserve a say in reforms to their industry
11 October 2026
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International Day of the Girl Child / Valuing daughters means sharing the responsibility of care
11 October 2026
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Beware machines that always take our side
11 October 2026
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World Mental Health Day / We must prevent overreliance on AI chatbots for emotional support
10 October 2026
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What if UFOs have been a cover for high-tech defence research programmes?
A mix of government, private, adversarial, and unexplained objects are filling up an increasingly congested US airspace. Uncovering what fills it should be of greater public interest.
8 October 2023
In tackling inflation, the country can't ignore the world
Inflation has become a worldwide phenomenon, not only specific to the developing world.
8 October 2023
Hamas assault should be a moment of reckoning for Israel
Israel – along with its shameless allies – is the architect and enabler of this war.
8 October 2023
Can a defaulter prevail over the government?
Why has no investigation taken place to explore on which grounds and for whose benefit the lion’s share of the climate fund was deposited in the Farmers Bank?
8 October 2023
Are we teaching business the right way?
Today's business ecosystem isn't confined to transactions and profitability.
8 October 2023
Dhaka University’s ‘game of departments’
Democracy needs its voters; and in the case of Dhaka University, this meant recruiting enough of the right kind of voters
7 October 2023
The many holes in Bangladesh’s energy master plan
The share of renewable energy is projected at merely 11 and 16 percent in 2041 and 2050.
7 October 2023
From apathy to activism: Who’s gonna clean my lake?
Unless the canals through which the waste waters are released to larger sources in Mohammadpur are maintained on a regular basis, the much-hyped road islands and the ornamental plants in the Dhanmondi area are of no use.
7 October 2023
Will we see a free, fair election after all?
One cannot help but note that Quader had a brazen attitude and lacked any embarrassment about the vitriol his party had been spewing against the US for quite some time now.
7 October 2023
Why exactly is Dhaka the slowest city in the world?
It is not enough to plan and build expensive flyovers, expressways, metro rail or BRT.
7 October 2023
Time for a new chapter in the story of Bangladesh cricket
The first cricket World Cup of the 2020s has to be the one where Bangladesh cricket finally reaches maturity.
6 October 2023
Freedom without justice
If we believe that things will fall into place by just letting them take their course, we will end up with multiple catastrophes.
6 October 2023
Neglecting public health literacy will cost us
High prevalence of inadequate health literacy causes health disparity in terms of access to and use of healthcare services.
6 October 2023
Assange may be in the dock, but it is journalism that’s on trial
The case against him and WikiLeaks is much more important for what it might entail for press freedom itself.
6 October 2023
Column by Mahfuz Anam: 'Secret deal has been struck, nothing to worry about'
Is that how democracy works for us?
5 October 2023
Attack on Radhapada Roy: When poets cry
The tacit tolerance of bigotry over the years has nurtured ideologies that are diametrically opposite to the founding principles of our nation
5 October 2023
Why did the US almost shut down?
I heard that the US government was about to shut down because it was running out of money. How is that possible?
5 October 2023
A noble profession and the system that fails it
Teachers are no longer the valued, moral arbiters of society that we once deemed them to be.
5 October 2023
Music and the space it creates for literature
I cannot, for the life of me, definitively describe what makes music. Growing up in a family where music of any form was not typically paid any reverence, my exposure to it was tunnelled into mainstream pop songs for the longest time.
4 October 2023
The fish rots from the head down
Who is to blame for the unpleasant episode between the two stalwarts?
4 October 2023