Was the Iran war inevitable?
4 July 2026, 13:00 PM
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How the internet is rewiring our brains
4 July 2026, 11:00 AM
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Quality must become healthcare's first line of defence in Bangladesh
4 July 2026, 10:00 AM
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Half a million HSC dropouts signal a silent crisis
4 July 2026, 09:00 AM
Blowin’ in the Wind
Inu verdict and the making of credible justice in Bangladesh
3 July 2026, 09:00 AM
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The champions Bangladesh keeps underfunding
3 July 2026, 13:00 PM
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Bangladesh declared two new marine protected areas. What about the first five?
3 July 2026, 12:00 PM
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Will Europe's heatwave finally spur climate justice?
3 July 2026, 10:00 AM
MIND THE GAP
Where is the investment in human capital in our logistics budget?
2 July 2026, 08:00 AM
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When love meets a political fault line
2 July 2026, 10:00 AM
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An inexcusable failure to ensure road safety
One issue that we have written extensively about is the lack of road safety in Bangladesh and the authorities’ continued indifference to it.
13 February 2022, 18:00 PM
We must keep an eye out for Pakistan
Recently, I read that Pakistan, a major competitor of Bangladesh in garment and textile production, had hit record textile exports. The country posted an uptick in textile exports year-on-year of 40 percent in FY2021-22 to the level of USD 21 billion.
13 February 2022, 18:00 PM
‘My agenda has been to uphold democracy’
Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar speaks with Mohiuddin Alamgir of The Daily Star about various issues related to the outgoing Bangladesh Election Commission, as well as the elections held during its five-year tenure, which expires today. This is the last of a two-part series of interviews marking the occasion.
13 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Low-income people need a breathing space
Urgent measures needed to tackle rising prices and disappearing jobs
13 February 2022, 12:57 PM
Migration too expensive for workers
It is good news that the expatriates’ welfare ministry is considering revising the migration cost for the Bangladeshi job seekers in the international markets.
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
End the pandemic of violence against women
Violence against women and girls increases during periods of crisis. So it should come as no surprise that Covid-19 has added to the risk of increased gender-based violence.
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
‘The EC can’t hold elections if it probes all the electoral allegations’
Election Commissioner Md. Rafiqul Islam talks to Mohiuddin Alamgir of The Daily Star about various issues and allegations that marked the five-year tenure of the outgoing Election Commission, which ends on February 14, 2022. This is the first part of a two-part interview series intended to mark the occasion.
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
What ails our local governments?
The unfortunate fact of our times is that all reports on Bangladesh’s socio-economic progression almost invariably point to the lack of good governance as a significant deficit in our developmental strides.
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Delay in setting up oxygen generators unfortunate
Another example of the health ministry’s inefficiency
12 February 2022, 13:13 PM
First the Buriganga, then the Dhaleshwari
We welcome the instruction of the parliamentary standing committee on the environment ministry to take necessary measures to shut down the Savar
11 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Stop killing students’ potential
The established education system of many countries and the perspective of parents are responsible for destroying the individualism of young people. Students
11 February 2022, 18:00 PM
A region connected by waterways
When the Indian cargo vessel MV, named after former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, set sail carrying 200 tonnes of food grain on a 2,350 km journey
11 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Are we listening to our adolescents?
To understand what our adolescents dream about the future, researchers at the Economic Relations Division (ERD) under the finance ministry conducted an explorative survey between August and September 2021.
11 February 2022, 18:00 PM
No real social change comes on its own
Every new year brings new hope in our lives. We hope that things will finally change.
11 February 2022, 18:00 PM
A promise unfulfilled for a decade
How many more court dates till Sagar-Runi get justice?
11 February 2022, 13:00 PM
Check the wave of cybercrimes
We are quite concerned at the increasing incidents of cybercrimes against women and children in Bangladesh. According to Ain o Salish
10 February 2022, 18:00 PM
When politics is all about partying
The one issue dominating British politics for weeks is nothing other than the partying going on at the heart of the government, at 10 Downing Street, the office-cum-residence of the prime minister.
10 February 2022, 18:00 PM
The Definitive Story
Retired Indian diplomat Chandrashekhar Dasgupta’s recollection of the events of 1971, centring on the Bangladesh Liberation War as captured in his recently published book, India and the Bangladesh Liberation War:
10 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Beat plastic pollution
Plastic pollution is a major threat to our environment, biodiversity, economy and health. I have come across many newspaper reports recently
10 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Column by Mahfuz Anam: Do we take our international partners for fools?
Since the US sanction on Rab and few of its present and former officials, there have been several comments from our ministers on the topic.
10 February 2022, 18:00 PM