One year on, how has Padma Bridge changed Bangladesh’s southwest?

Among the local communities, the general perception is that PMB has earned them a sense of pride, a distinct identity other than of course promoting connectivity.
24 June 2023, 18:00 PM

Why the FY23-24 budget will not curb the rate of inflation

Unfortunately, the budget will do nothing to ease the hardship and the budgetary crunch felt by the common man.
24 June 2023, 16:00 PM

Lessons from the five city corporation elections

How should we view these elections in light of the upcoming national elections?
24 June 2023, 13:00 PM

The sun also rises

Those of us who thought the sickness trail of the pandemic was over have a rude awakening. The world is getting sicker by the day.
24 June 2023, 03:00 AM

Education in national budget: A dialogue of the deaf

Our education decision-makers have a narrative that largely denies any serious deficiency in the system.
23 June 2023, 18:15 PM

Empower patients to own their healthcare data

Patients must have the autonomy to grant consent to share their data
23 June 2023, 18:00 PM

The city is a beautiful thing when it’s for everyone

A city is a web of facilities and opportunities in which different agencies and communities lay stakes, push boundaries, and make bullish claims of making things better.
23 June 2023, 15:00 PM

The global conspiracy – against women

Clearly, deep-rooted biases and stereotypes are at play.
23 June 2023, 04:00 AM

Our dengue control methods are beyond inadequate

The situation has further deteriorated in June with the onset of monsoon, which is the breeding season for Aedes mosquitoes.
23 June 2023, 01:00 AM

Our leading socialist intellectual and our teacher

There is far more to be said about Serajul Islam Choudhury's significance as an intellectual and literary-cultural critic.
22 June 2023, 18:05 PM

Without whistleblowers, the West is lost

We need people like Assange to force such reckonings – to make us see “those in the darkness.”
22 June 2023, 13:00 PM

Of rankings and Bangladeshi universities

Ranking universities by comprehensive and internationally accepted organisations serve the purpose of academic improvement, institutional accountability, and students’ enhanced experiences.
22 June 2023, 04:00 AM

‘Bangladesh will not feature in Modi-Biden meeting’

Maj Gen (retd) ANM Muniruzzaman, president of the Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies (BIPSS), talks about the agenda of the meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden with Golam Mortoza of The Daily Star.
21 June 2023, 16:00 PM

Monetary policy has been set free... but not really

While the government’s latest monetary policy for the first half of fiscal year 2023-24 shows an attempt to be rational for the market, it lacks vigour to solve inflation and the dollar crisis.
21 June 2023, 14:00 PM

The global minimum corporate tax needs more work

Moving from a world with no minimum tax to one with a 15 percent floor would seem to be a step forward. But there was always good reason to worry.
21 June 2023, 09:45 AM

Bangladesh cannot become smart with a gaping digital divide

Despite the Smart Bangladesh Vision 2041 turning into a central theme of the nation’s futuristic progress narrative, the digital divide remains a major issue.
21 June 2023, 03:00 AM

Why Dhaka should invest more in bicycle lanes

Cycling infrastructure is far less expensive to build than roads, flyovers, elevated expressways, and parking garages for cars.
21 June 2023, 01:00 AM

Five concerns that the FY2024 budget fails to address

In light of the economic hardships Bangladesh has been going through, there were certain expectations from the national budget of 2023-24 fiscal year.
20 June 2023, 16:00 PM

Barishal, Khulna city polls exposed what's wrong with our elections

The elections to Barishal and Khulna city corporations held on May 12, 2023 cannot be considered free, fair and credible, as they were non-competitive.
20 June 2023, 13:00 PM

Scrounging revelations out of music

I don't remember at what point in life I learned to recognize the fallacy behind the not-like-other-girls phenomenon and discarded it for an all-encompassing love for female friendship and solidarity, in acceptance of femininity in all its forms. But I do know that Taylor Swift played a significant role in it.
20 June 2023, 12:46 PM