Bangladesh's measles outbreak is a warning against the complacency of success
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11 dead over the World Cup: The real problem is not football
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Our climate budget must prioritise the displaced
13 July 2026, 00:00 AM
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Why the International Crimes Tribunal’s mandate must be protected
12 July 2026, 09:00 AM
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How long must we ask the same questions about education?
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Build physical spaces for children before banning virtual ones
12 July 2026, 12:00 PM
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To build like Shanghai, start with Dhaka's east
12 July 2026, 11:00 AM
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Bangladesh just passed a law against hill-cutting. Why does it skip the Chittagong Hill Tracts?
12 July 2026, 10:00 AM
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Rethinking how we teach political science
11 July 2026, 00:00 AM
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Bangladesh must hold its own amid changing geopolitics
11 July 2026, 09:00 AM
Blowin’ in the Wind
Why Dhaka has become unliveable
To survive Dhaka, you need a strategy. Start by embracing the absurd: treat every crisis as a plot twist.
28 June 2025, 07:00 AM
A quiet shift in South Asia’s energy landscape
South Asia saw the first instance of a functioning, trilateral power trade arrangement.
28 June 2025, 06:00 AM
Who is holding the baby while she works?
Let’s be clear: daycare is not just a holding room, but a place of cognitive, social, and emotional growth for children as well.
28 June 2025, 03:00 AM
Media reform shouldn’t be left out of the July Charter
Ignoring media reform now would be a serious strategic misstep.
28 June 2025, 02:00 AM
The West’s AI dominance is the new colonialism
AI colonialism goes beyond economics; it also involves language and cultural erasure.
27 June 2025, 10:30 AM
Bangladesh’s search for a balanced national identity
Bangladesh stands at a pivotal moment in its political and ideological evolution.
27 June 2025, 06:01 AM
‘Those responsible for custodial torture and death are rarely punished’
Nur Khan Liton, a human rights activist, discusses his experience of dealing with cases of custodial torture and deaths in an exclusive interview with Monorom Polok of The Daily Star.
27 June 2025, 03:00 AM
Transitioning from autocracy to democracy: The four challenges for Bangladesh
The challenges are not exclusively of the interim government's but of the entire political class.
27 June 2025, 02:00 AM
Chattogram's live bird markets expose disturbing gaps in poultry welfare
For example, in traditional bazaars, slaughtered chickens and their waste are kept together in the same containers.
26 June 2025, 11:00 AM
What is missing in BNP’s reform agenda?
Apart from generic references to tackling corruption and ensuring fair distribution of resources, the agenda is silent on the broader economic direction.
26 June 2025, 08:05 AM
Epidemiological transition in South Asia
South Asia’s double burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases
26 June 2025, 07:01 AM
Audit reform requires effective institutions, not rivalries
Bangladesh's audit ecosystem, though in need of reform and expansion, should not be reduced to a turf war between professional bodies.
26 June 2025, 06:00 AM
The cost of marrying off girls too soon
Child marriage is closely linked to high adolescent pregnancy rates.
26 June 2025, 04:00 AM
Can Bangladesh deliver justice for the disappeared?
The interim government has taken important steps to acknowledge past abuses and lay the foundation for justice.
26 June 2025, 02:00 AM
Planning your child’s global future starts with your bank
Embarking on your child’s international education journey is, from the outset, an emotional milestone.
25 June 2025, 11:30 AM
Politics of courage: What Zohran Mamdani is showing the world
When Zohran speaks about Palestine, he’s not fishing for applause.
25 June 2025, 09:30 AM
The human cost of Bangladesh’s dangerous roads
The failure of road safety continues to claim lives with alarming frequency.
25 June 2025, 05:00 AM
How do we avoid a debt trap?
The debt bubble is ominous, given Bangladesh’s narrow export base and heavy reliance on remittance inflows.
25 June 2025, 03:00 AM
Israel, Iran and the US: A game of war and peace
But whether the current course of events will follow the course of 2020, cannot be said with certainty.
25 June 2025, 02:00 AM
Bangladesh should not follow the West's example on climate change
Climate change is a man-made problem, but campaigners and irresponsible politicians have blown this out of proportion.
24 June 2025, 10:30 AM