Columns

Business

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  Beside farmers in overcoming the corona crisis

  • Alamgir Khan

• Farmers lose, millers gain—not a new game
• Budget priorities: Jobs that last and hike in private investment
• Not numeric, looking for a quality growth Comforts and discomforts of upcoming budget
• Three new banks join an already crowded, struggling sector

Column

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  April, 1991: Still looking for her

  • Afsan Chowdhury

• COVID-19: challenges and Initiatives
• The hotting-up of the Sino-American spat: Most dangerous side-effect of Covid-19?
• Can conventional mass media survive corona?
• The impact of COVID-19 on higher education in Bangladesh

Culture

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  The Impressionist in S.M. Sultan

  • Ali Adil Khan

• “Brothers in Arms” to support events industry workers
• Ranjit’s move with art towards a genuine world
• Tahsan’s musical memorabilia auctioned for Tk 7.5 lakh
• Coronavirus: Three cheers for our medics

Essays

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  Niloufer Manzur: Ushering in the Light

  • Md. Ishtiak Hossain

• Artistry during quarantine: brushstrokes utilizing make-up by Bhabna
• If only they knew
• National Professor Jamilur Reza Choudhury passes away
• Midnight Gospel: the ‘Okay!’ visual podcast

Global

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  States accused of fudging or bungling COVID-19 testing data

  • Michelle R. Smith, Colleen Long and Jeff Amy

• US, China standoff ensnares WHO meeting on COVID-19 fight
• Pandemic threatens to deepen crisis in mental health care
• Trump’s use of malaria drug likely to be welcomed in India
• How I defended Stalingrad

Nation this week

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  The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission

  • Staff Writer

• The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh has formulated a 39-point guideline
• At least eight journalists were arrested in the first week of May
• Directorate General of Drug Administration allowed Gonoshasthaya Kendra
• India handed over Risaldar Moslehuddin

Politics

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  In cooperation and conflict

  • Wafiur Rahman

• Sylhet defies the Khulna model
• Pakistan’s dirtiest election in years
• The mother of all models
• River Politics

Reportage

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  The search for the dominant strain

  • Courier Briefing

• The anatomy of Amphan
• COVID-19 survivor journalist Apu shares his story of beating the virus
• Mass exodus from Dhaka raises corona concerns
• Protect Bangladesh’s 80 pc areas still free from coronavirus: Expert

Society

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  Meet Albeiro Vargas (9) “The Little Angel of Colombia”

  • Sir Frank Peters

• Children's role in pandemic is still a puzzle
• All students must have access to internet before online classes: DU VC
• Mother’s Day in the shadow of pandemic
• Virtual Court and e-Judiciary in Bangladesh

Sports

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  U-19 Champions: How Akbar’s Army scaled the summit

  • Saif Hasnat

• Cubs put Bangladesh on top of the world
• BPL 2019: Failing to catch on
• Davis Cup: Nadal & Bautista lead Spain to clinch Sixth World Title
• India Tour of Bangladesh Cricket Team: A Retrospective

Technology

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  Realme X50 5G Smartphone: Specs, Features and Price

  • Rifat Tabassam

• Is Your Smartphone a Silent Killer?
• Smartwatches: Too clever by half?
• Creating Human Connection in the Age of Digital Transformation
• SUST team invents low-cost cancer-detecting technology

World this week

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  The US Senate passed a bill that could block some Chinese companies

  • Staff Writer

• The U.K. government warned of a “significant” recession
• The economic catastrophe caused by the coronavirus outbreak
• Bleak new figures underscored the worldwide economic pain inflicted by the coronavirus
• Canada’s worst mass shooting erupted from an argument between the gunman