For all its pro-reform posturing, BNP has yet to signal a real willingness to lead political reforms, including within itself.
Bangabandhu as a subject of study should be approached with an openness to embrace truths, however unflattering.
Let's delve into the hypothetical lifelines in a public servant’s career that help them indulge in corruption.
Animals in Bangladesh are losing their homes because people are taking over their spaces.
Budget day is turning into our very own Groundhog Day.
It's frightening to think citizens' private data is being sold through hundreds of social media pages and groups
This is apparently the longest holiday that journalists have ever gotten in the history of Bangladesh’s newspaper industry.
If the government really wants to control or bring down prices during Ramadan and afterwards, it must be willing to go after its 'own people.'
Stories of corruption no longer produce the same shock they once did.
In April, British journalist and author Susie Boniface, in an article for Mirror Online, asked her readers to take a moment to imagine a world in which there is no journalism.
No, the pandemic is not over—far from it, actually, despite what the ministers might tell you—although at times it does feel like we’ve reached the end.
Nearly half a century after the 1971 War of Liberation, it is perhaps difficult to produce or come across startlingly original ideas about Tajuddin Ahmad.
The call for defunding police in the US, after the death of George Floyd in police brutality, is one of the most striking messages coming out of what is perhaps the largest civil movement in US history.
Not long ago, I was watching a webinar on the plight of returning migrant workers streamed live on Facebook by The Daily Star.
So it’s official now. The government is going to shut down all 25 state-owned jute mills operated by Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) and lay off about 25,000 workers involved with them.
In 1883, the American poet Emma Lazarus wrote a sonnet about the virtues of diversity and inclusion.
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” This comment by Vladimir Lenin, describing the Bolshevik revolution over 100 years ago, serves as an apt metaphor for the journey Bangladesh has had since March 8, when the country confirmed its first Covid-19 case.
Press freedom in Bangladesh has been in decline long before the coronavirus came to our shores.
