What hinders the proper execution of Bangladesh's health budget?
5 July 2026, 08:00 AM
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The darker side of Bangladesh's World Cup fever
5 July 2026, 12:00 PM
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‘We need research that explores solutions to drug addiction aligned with local contexts’
5 July 2026, 09:00 AM
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The hidden epidemic of emotional abuse in marriage
5 July 2026, 11:00 AM
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The solution to Bangladesh’s dengue problem is in our own soil
5 July 2026, 10:00 AM
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Is the government losing its grip on law and order?
5 July 2026, 09:00 AM
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AI-based traffic cases expose our legal vacuum on AI governance
5 July 2026, 13:00 PM
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Why Bangladesh should be patient in its nuclear journey
5 July 2026, 11:00 AM
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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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Four areas to focus on for post-Covid economic recovery
While more than seven billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered around the world—albeit almost 70 percent in developed countries and only two percent in low-income countries—the global economy is expected to see a strong recovery in 2021.
31 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Press freedom is under serious threat
In a discussion organised by the Editors’ Council on Saturday, newspaper editors and academics expressed concern that the freedoms of the press and speech in Bangladesh were under serious threat.
31 October 2021, 13:03 PM
Why I am going to COP26
On the edge of the largest mangrove forest in the world, home of the famous Royal Bengal Tiger, I met Krishna Rani.
30 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Dhaka needs new urban-forms
If the city is the new challenge of the time, the “edge” of the city is at the heart of it.
30 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Efficient utilisation of LoCs a must for proper development
At the just-ended Bangladesh-India line of credit (LoC) review meeting, officials of both Bangladesh and India expressed their hope that the
30 October 2021, 18:00 PM
The long wait for compensation
That rape and sexual assault is an endemic issue in the country can be seen by just how regularly one reads about such cases in our daily pages.
30 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Tighten your purse strings, save the planet
This is my moment of truth. When last month I got to know that there was a day called World Thrift Day (that is, today), I immediately decided I had to write about it.
30 October 2021, 18:00 PM
The need to improve our worker’s compensation system
My fellow columnist, Shuprova Tasneem, was recently lamenting the lack of fair wages and workplace safety in Bangladesh.
30 October 2021, 18:00 PM
How many more projects will be delayed?
Only two days ago, we wrote in these columns about how time and cost overruns have become the norm in our development projects, wasting crucial time
29 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Felling trees for development can’t be the norm
Worrying developments have been reported in the Shahjalal Upashahar area of Sylhet city where 200 trees were recently chopped down. A report by The
29 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Is Asia and the Pacific ready for the global climate stage?
As the leaders of Asia and the Pacific prepare to head to Glasgow for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), they can
29 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Bangladeshi delegates to COP26 have a tricky job on their hands
Tomorrow, on October 31, world leaders and top climate officials will come together to discuss climate change against the backdrop of Covid-19 and an already rapidly changing natural environment.
29 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Patriarchy, give me my country back
I was four years old when it first happened.
29 October 2021, 18:00 PM
The Untranslatable Porosrikatorota
Is the Bangla word “porosrikatorota” really untranslatable? Does “envy” or “jealousy” fall short of denoting the condition of feeling down after seeing the success of others?
29 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Inspiring example of teaching disadvantaged children
It is heartening to learn about a tutorial centre set up in Jhenaidah to educate underprivileged children for free. Alamgir Hossain, currently a
28 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Myanmar must do more to stop drug trafficking
In a bid to stop drugs such as yaba and crystal meth—popularly known as ice—from pouring into Bangladesh from Myanmar, the former has
28 October 2021, 18:00 PM
A spectre is haunting Bangladesh, the spectre of communalism
Given the doubts, confusions and anxieties of the modern age, it is perhaps expected—and certainly obvious—that there is a resurgence of religiosity almost everywhere.
28 October 2021, 18:00 PM
South Asia needs a change of approach for agricultural progress
Regardless of the remarkable progress that some industries across South Asia have achieved, agriculture still remains the primary source of employment and income for a large segment of people in the region.
28 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Column by Mahfuz Anam: 50 years of journalism and the way forward
When we refer to our glorious period of journalism, we usually mean the pre-liberation period. Ironically, compared to today, the media was at its most rudimentary stage at that time.
28 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Returnee female migrants need help to bounce back in life
There is hardly any positive news about our female migrant workers employed in the Middle East or those who have returned home from there.
27 October 2021, 18:00 PM