Columns

Business

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  Farmers lose, millers gain—not a new game

  • Haradhan Ganguly

• 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
• Promotion and marketing of non-traditional fruits and some other related issues

Column

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  BANGABANDHU: He stands tall, like the Himalayas

  • Abdul Matin

• Cats at lunch and squirrels hoarding food
• Spoils of trade war spill over to the domain of culture
• My experience with VIPs
• A Spring night . . . and thoughts of Bangabandhu

Culture

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  Art Enlightens Us

  • A. R. S. Rumy

• Priyanka performs Subir Nandi’s songs for the first time
• Chitrangada staged in Chinese at Shilpakala
• Russian international photo contest on its civilization starts
• Kamruzzaman wins the Bangkok Triennial Award 2019

Essays

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  The quest for better city leadership

  • S. M. Rayhanul Islam

• BANGABANDHU AND BANGLADESH: Correcting Contrives and Cunning Corridors
• Ahmed Sofa: The ‘mad’ scholar we needed for developing a better nation
• UNB Editor Mahfuzur Rahman’s book on journalism launched
• The irreplaceable bohemian: the Human, the Humayun

Global

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  Why Iran has a speedboat swarm that’s punching above its weight

  • Paul Rogers

• Geographic Information System: for a better life
• On turning 60 and starting afresh
• Killer instinct defines the BJP’s current political approach
• Why the Xi-Putin bromance bears watching

Nation this week

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  Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday shrugged off the allegations of torture in custody

  • Staff Correspondent

• The High Court directed the authorities concerned to stop production
• The Police headquarters
• Overall flood situation in the country
• The incidence of violence against women

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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  Military business ties exposed in Myanmar

  • Courier Report

• More than enough local cattle are there for Eid: DLS
• Surging dengue: City hospitals are overrun
• PM to attend Economic Summit in New Delhi in Oct
• Japan’s business presence in Bangladesh growing fast

Society

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  Robin Williams: The ‘Captain’ of the laughter

  • Md. Ishtiak Hossain

• 15th AGM of WildTeam held in the city
• Noazesh Knowledge Centre hosts basic GIS training
• Want to remain unstoppable to bring pride for country: Alakesh Ghosh
• Statelessness: The UN’s failure in Assam

Sports

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  Shakib takes his place in the Pantheon

  • Shayan S Khan

• ‘It will be a special World Cup for Bangladesh’ - Mehidy Miraz
• 22 years a Tiger
• Spin is the best medicine
• Series up for grabs

Technology

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  Creating Human Connection in the Age of Digital Transformation

  • Rumessa Mailloux

• SUST team invents low-cost cancer-detecting technology
• Users of prepaid meters in dilemma: multiple problems surfacing
• Searching for Ebola’s hideout
• Our satellite of love

World this week

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  India’s government has revoked disputed Kashmir’s special status

  • Staff Correspondent

• Diplomats from Iran and five world powers recommitted
• India’s most ambitious unmanned mission to the moon launched successfully
• The Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed the first case of Ebola in the eastern city of Goma
• Iran began enriching uranium to