Striving for Workers’ Safety, Voice, and Just Transition
19 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Shielding Harvests, Securing Futures: Climate Insurance for Bangladesh
28 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Roundtables
Combatting Violence Against Women: Translating Evidence to Actions
9 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Roundtables
Transitioning from Bank Finance to Capital Market Finance
2 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Roundtables
Strengthening Maternal and Child Health in Bangladesh: A Call to Build a Resilient Health System
27 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Roundtables
Bridging the skills gap for a sustainable Bangladesh
23 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Roundtables
Trade Disruption, Strategic Response: Bangladesh in the New Global Order
10 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Roundtables
Women at the Forefront: Shaping Climate Action in Bangladesh
5 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Roundtables
Breaking Barriers: Recognize and Empower Women Fisherfolks
29 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Roundtables
Police reform hinges on independent commission
20 September 2025, 18:14 PM
Roundtables
Future of G2P in Bangladesh: The case of social protection system
Many social protection programmes which are operating under different ministries need to be consolidated; otherwise, there will be multiplication of the same process.
28 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Access to general and reproductive health services for RMG workers during new normal: Challenges and opportunities
Access to general and reproductive health services
23 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Post-COVID-19 youth employment projection in Bangladesh
The Daily Star in association with ActionAid Bangladesh organised an online discussion titled “Post-COVID-19 youth employment projection in Bangladesh” on July 19, 2020. Here we publish a summary of the discussion.
29 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Voluntary National Review 2020 and Youth Perspectives
The Daily Star in association with Citizen’s Platform for SDGs and Plan International Bangladesh organised a virtual policy dialogue titled “Voluntary National Review 2020 and Youth Perspectives” on July 16, 2020. Here we publish a summary of the discussion.
23 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Youth perspective on COVID-19 crisis in Bangladesh: Reflection on National Budget 2020-21
The Daily Star in association with ActionAid Bangladesh organised an online discussion titled “Youth perspective on COVID-19 crisis in Bangladesh: Reflection on national budget 2020-21” on June 24, 2020. Here we publish a summary of the discussion.
19 July 2020, 18:00 PM
COVID-19 effects on urban health
In this discussion, we will try to determine where the urban health situation of Bangladesh currently stands in terms of the COVID-19 situation. We will refer to a rapid assessment on urban health situation in Gazipur, conducted by CARE Bangladesh.
20 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Sustainable solutions to overcome the effects of Coronavirus pandemic on the construction sector
Bangladesh’s construction sector is set to face challenging times because of the coronavirus pandemic as it would slow down the economy, disrupt development activities and put workers out of jobs.
30 May 2020, 18:00 PM
COVID-19 pandemic: Situation of working people, challenges and way forward to future of work
The current situation of COVID-19 pandemic has caused most countries of the world to close their borders. The global supply chain has hence been severely impacted. Now, one main issue is the drastic decrease in remittance from our migrant workers, with a fall of USD 170 million.
20 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Agent banking solutions during coronavirus pandemic
Agent banking is quite a recent addition to banking services but it has already made waves in our community in terms of user number, agent points, and number of transactions.
10 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Digital payment solutions during coronavirus pandemic
Today’s discussion will focus on how we can make the best use of our existing digital payment structure during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
29 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Making finance resilient to the smallholder farmers
We are still a heavily agro-based society and economy. Perhaps the most neglected are those that are feeding this economy – the farmers.
4 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Coronavirus Pandemic: Tasks Ahead
The times are different. The whole world is different. We have never faced a situation like this before. In a sense, we are all confused. As a responsible newspaper, we want to communicate authentic information to the public. The public needs to know what the tasks ahead are.
22 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Progress and Challenges in TB Control Programme
Tuberculosis (TB) is a global public health issue, with Bangladesh being among the 30 high burden TB countries.
9 March 2020, 18:00 PM
#EachforEqual
Although Bangladesh has progressed a lot in terms of women’s empowerment in the past 10 years, to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030,
8 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Preventing discrimination and harassment of women at workplace
Millions of women across the world face sexual harassment at work. Even though reports indicate high levels of harassment incidents, more than one in three countries do not have any laws against harassment in the workplace.
6 March 2020, 18:00 PM
End violence against women and girls: Sharing ideas about workplace violence prevention
In Bangladesh, the proliferation of informal work has opened the doors for many women to find work. However, this has its negative sides.
3 January 2020, 18:00 PM
End violence against women and girls: Sharing ideas about workplace violence prevention
In Bangladesh, the proliferation of informal work has opened the doors for many women to find work. However, this has its negative sides.
3 January 2020, 18:00 PM
The challenges faced by women-led SMEs and the way forward
The SMEs operating in Bangladesh are important contributors to the economy’s booming sectors including industry, service and manufacturing.
31 December 2019, 18:00 PM
Construction Hazard: Creating awareness and the role of stakeholders
RFL Pipe & Fittings (a brand of RFL Group) in association with The Daily Star organised a roundtable titled “Construction Hazard:
Creating awareness and the role of stakeholders” on December 12, 2019. Here we publish a summary of the discussion.
28 December 2019, 18:00 PM
Prospect of Digital Platforms in Getting Service-Related Information and Providing Feedback
Save the Children has been working all across the globe for the last 100 years to ensure the rights of the children.
6 December 2019, 18:00 PM