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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  Twist and turn in Japan’s punitive measures against South Korea

  • Monzurul Huq

• Memories of Delhi
• BD’s strength lies in Indo-Chinese economic rivalry
• Prime Minister in China: Implications; bilateral, regional and global
• Jyoti Basu and edifying politics

Culture

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  A brave experimentalist who pushes viewers to think

  • Takir Hossain

• Artist Rabin Mondal no more
• Syed Hasan Imam’s autobiography launched
• Loko Natyadal staged Amra Tinjon at National Theatre Hall
• “Bangladesh has earned the respect of global art community”

Essays

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  Promoting the culture of respect through education

  • S. M. Rayhanul Islam

• Alamgir’s poetic words of protest
• Star Wars director JJ Abrams writing a Spiderman comic with his son
• Protecting children from bullying and cyber bullying
• Journalism Round the Clock by Mahfuzur Rahman

Global

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  How the United Nations is quietly being turned into a public-private partnership

  • Harris Gleckman

• From Libya to Texas, tragedies illustrate plight of migrants
• In Cannes
• ​​​​​​​Why Istanbul’s rerun is a battle for the soul of Turkey
• Economic growth: a short history of a controversial idea

Nation this week

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  The incidence of violence against women

  • Staff Correspondent

• Households have to pay Tk 175 more for gas
• BNP’s Golam Mohammad Siraj won the Bogura-6 by-elections
• More than 3.5 million (35.82 lakh)
• The government was set to announce the budget

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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  Port City Rising

  • UNB Report

• To subsidize or not: Increased gas prices
• Queen Maxima promotes access to financial services in Bangladesh
• Dhaka-Beijing: Advancing along ‘strategic’
• Expats seek ‘protection’ first to invest in BD

Society

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  Middle Income Nation, or Wonderland of Mindless Acts?

  • Mahde Hassan

• The U.S. should not demonize Huawei – it should invest to compete
• Trump's 'deal of the century': 17 things we learned
• Keeping fit
• 5-day school week for Bangladesh

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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  Iran began enriching uranium to

  • Staff Correspondent

• A small group of protesters smashed their way
• Turkey’s opposition won a high-stakes rerun of the Istanbul mayoral election
• Demonstrators in Hong Kong gathered outside the office
• A highly controversial legislative measure in Hong Kong