Column by Mahfuz Anam / July charter implementation: Growing distance between BNP and the opposition is worrisome
24 July 2026, 00:00 AM
THE THIRD VIEW
UGC’s centralised research funding must not undermine academic independence
24 July 2026, 09:00 AM
Views
Padma Barrage: Reviving one region, risking another?
24 July 2026, 10:00 AM
Views
The Commonwealth's greatest prize lies beyond the Games
23 July 2026, 16:13 PM
Views
‘Textbooks should not undermine girls' confidence or reinforce the beauty myth’
23 July 2026, 10:00 AM
Interviews
Plan well before introducing separate question sets for DU admission
23 July 2026, 11:00 AM
Views
How can we protect our children from being preyed on?
23 July 2026, 08:00 AM
Views
What India’s ‘cockroach’ protest tells us about South Asia’s generation of discontent
23 July 2026, 09:00 AM
Views
How Islamic bank depositors can minimise sharing losses
22 July 2026, 16:45 PM
Views
Rethinking Bangladesh's health sector reform after SWAp
22 July 2026, 08:00 AM
Views
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
When will mob violence end in Bangladesh?
This is the government's moment to show what it truly stands for and bring everyone of those people to face the law
24 June 2025, 08:41 AM
The unmatched legacy of Professor Serajul Islam Choudhury
Professor Serajul Islam Choudhury, one of Bangladesh’s most enduring public intellectuals, turned 90 on June 23.
24 June 2025, 08:25 AM
From Strait of Hormuz to Dhaka: How a distant crisis could hit our homes
And when supply falls, prices inevitably rise.
24 June 2025, 06:00 AM
Empowered or enraged: What are we really doing with the internet?
The ability not just to use technology but to understand, interpret, and engage with it wisely is glaringly absent from our collective behaviour
24 June 2025, 05:44 AM
Never again, again: 89 seconds to midnight
The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight—the closest we’ve ever been to global catastrophe.
24 June 2025, 05:00 AM
Vertical democracy: Why Bangladesh needs a second chamber
True reform must aim for devolution rather than centralisation, redistributing power downward before horizontally.
24 June 2025, 04:00 AM
Turning reserved seats into real power for women
We began with 15 reserved seats in 1972. Today, there are 50. On paper, this expansion signals progress.
24 June 2025, 03:00 AM
The afterlife of an uprising
When I think of July, I remember the silence. Not the kind that settles over a nation out of respect, but the kind that suffocates.
23 June 2025, 11:00 AM
The Middle East as a time loop
Understanding the Middle Eastern crisis through the temporal lens of Dark
23 June 2025, 08:00 AM