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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  Sin City Notes: Driver Malek: Thou shall not steal...too much!

  • Afsan Chowdhury

• The essential Vidyasagar: (On his 200th birth anniversary)
• China’s Vaccine Diplomacy: Useful Strategy if Wisely Applied
• Sin City Notes: How to disappear completely
• Japan at a crossroad after Abe

Culture

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  Sayedur’s diverse creativities with individual approach

  • Takir Hossain

• A man of Many Hues: Syed Mujtaba Ali's 116th birth anniversary
• Nonajoler Kabbo to be premiered at Busan Film Fest
• Top celebrities add star power to Likee
• Shah Abdul Karim’s 11th death anniversary observed

Essays

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  Humayun Ahmed: The creator of versatile fictional characters

  • Rifat Tabassam

• Among Us: inexpensive and fun way to endure 2020
• Geoscientist Moinul Huq passes away
• Political dimension of beauty in Siddik’s poetry
• Blown Away by Bake Away Desserts

Global

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  Encouraging Emission Tax to Tackle Climatic Impacts

  • Shishir Reza

• Report finds global economic outlook not as bad as expected
• World Cleanup Day: Microplastic a serious threat to human health!
• Huge fire breaks out at Beirut port a month after explosion
• Vaccine by Nov. 3? Halted study explains just how unlikely

Nation this week

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  Following days of protests by students

  • Staff Writer

• In a landmark verdict, the Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court
• Education authorities announced promotion
• Flood victims in central Bangladesh started returning home
• In a move that takes on extra meaning in the midst of the global pandemic

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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  75th UNGA: Imprint of a Pandemic

  • Courier Briefing

• Swedish Ambassador Linde for stronger partnership with Bangladesh
• No alternative to public transport to build a livable Dhaka!
• Decade of development driven by returning to founding principles: Radwan Mujib
• Chipping away at the edifice

Society

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  Media celebrates Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life, legacy

  • Leanne Italie

• Ginsburg’s impact on women spanned age groups, backgrounds
• Born to prevent war, UN at 75 faces a deeply polarized world
• The Pure Food Court for Food Safety
• Wedding, in the time of Corona

Sports

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  Bangla youth wins ICC award

  • Ashikur Rahman

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

Technology

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  How to Get Hired for Online Writing Jobs

  • Rifat Tabassam

• From unbanked to fully digital? A look behind Bangladesh’s online money transfers
• Realme X50 5G Smartphone: Specs, Features and Price
• Is Your Smartphone a Silent Killer?
• Smartwatches: Too clever by half?

World this week

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  Representatives from the Afghan government

  • Staff Writer

• Late-stage studies of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate
• Tensions between India and China
• After heavy-handed measures in the days
• Mali’s president announced his resignation just hours after armed soldiers seized him from his home