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Can playing a historic speech justify repeated bail denials?
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Digital cards and the reality of poverty in Bangladesh
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The silent exclusion built into Bangladesh’s ID system
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‘The West has given Netanyahu the licence to kill Palestinians’
The truth is that if Joe Biden tells Netanyahu enough is enough, then Netanyahu has to stop.
31 October 2023, 04:00 AM
A Dhaka we’ll want to arrive at
The city, the one that we want to arrive at, remains illusory
31 October 2023, 03:00 AM
Dehumanising Palestinians: Israel’s rhetoric for genocide
Israel’s dehumanisation rhetoric serves to rationalise an industrial scale of genocide against the people of Gaza.
31 October 2023, 03:00 AM
Where do we go from here?
In Dhaka, the designated streets occupied by BNP looked like a battlefield.
31 October 2023, 02:00 AM
Fashion needs to support suppliers for green transition
If it’s left to garment suppliers, the green transition will take decades.
30 October 2023, 15:00 PM
Fighting on the streets cannot be the way of political parties
Has any political party ever displayed responsible behaviour?
30 October 2023, 10:58 AM
The Arab League is not doing enough to save Gaza
The escalation calls for strong and visible cooperation among the members of the Arab League.
30 October 2023, 03:00 AM
What’s even the point of having a cricket team?
Fans have limited patience, and cricket fans are being pushed dangerously close to the limit.
30 October 2023, 02:00 AM
You couldn’t have ‘Friends’ without Chandler Bing
Could we be more… mortal?
29 October 2023, 13:00 PM
Violence prevails yet again
The ruling party should stop organising parallel programmes and fuelling confrontation.
29 October 2023, 10:57 AM
The death of a climate justice pioneer
The editorial team at The Daily Star is shocked and deeply saddened by the death of eminent climate expert and scientist Dr Saleemul Huq OBE
29 October 2023, 09:28 AM
Breaking the chains of obligation at 50-something
I don’t want to be accountable for the bad fish curry, the pending electric bill, or the understocked pantry anymore.
29 October 2023, 03:00 AM
Food insecurity is haunting our poor
The soaring food prices, coupled with falling real income, pose a serious challenge for the poor in terms of accessing adequate and nutritious food.
29 October 2023, 01:00 AM
Claudia Goldin’s economics Nobel and the lessons for developing countries
A fundamental takeaway of Goldin’s work is that the source of the gender gap is not constant as a society transitions from one period of development to another.
29 October 2023, 01:00 AM
‘No innocents in Gaza’
Wars force us to recognise that all mortal conflicts come from tribalism.
28 October 2023, 14:45 PM
Is education only about earning money?
We need a peak in social consciousness, and not just in our GDP.
28 October 2023, 03:00 AM
Mind the gap in centralised university admissions
The practical implementation of this method has revealed significant shortcomings.
28 October 2023, 02:00 AM
What should and shouldn’t happen in Oct 28 rallies
It cannot be ignored that the nation came to this day because a path to hold a fair election is absent, and that the current system of governance has undermined the citizens’ right to exercise their inalienable right to vote.
27 October 2023, 11:26 AM
Erik ten Hag vs Players
As Ten Hag continues his journey with Manchester United, the spotlight is firmly on him, both on and off the pitch.
27 October 2023, 08:51 AM
What will happen on October 28?
It seems all the opposition forces are becoming active ahead of the national election.
27 October 2023, 02:00 AM