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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  Somerset Maugham, his short stories and Singapore: mutual influences

  • Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury

• The woes of the World Trading Organization: Can reforms revitalize it?
• Political and social leadership: A structural conflict
• White House Fenced In: Trump, Within, Ploughs a Lonely Furrow
• Innocent victims of the Libyan wealth

Culture

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  BSA’s ‘Arts Against Corona’ live: Virtual stream brings music and culture at home

  • Courier Report

• Author Nimai Bhattacharya passes away
• In fond memory of Samarendra Sen Gupta
• 'Khunti: Road to Roots' and ‘Highways of Life’ take top prizes as 8th Liberation DocFest concludes
• Aminul Islam: myths, experimental, insanity and a novel way of painting

Essays

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  The unabashed intelligence of Dark

  • Saykot Kabir Shayok

• A Bibliophile's Review of a Bargain Buy Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China
• Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
• 8th Liberation DocFest-2020 Bangladesh: Lives, inside the vision of unravelled reels
• WWE Legend Undertaker retires: The cowboy rides away

Global

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  India, China hold inconclusive talks on ending army face-off

  • Ashok Sharma

• Israel undeterred by international opposition to annexation
• Movement for Black Lives plans virtual national convention
• Trafficking in Persons Report 2020: The Case of Bangladesh
• Impatience grows for cops’ arrests in Breonna Taylor’s death

Nation this week

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  Bangladeshi expatriates sent home USD 18.20 billion

  • Staff Writer

• There are 733 intensive care unit beds at 52 government hospitals
• The authorities of United Hospital were sued for the deaths of five people
• The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission
• The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh has formulated a 39-point guideline

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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  COVID-19: Converting Challenges into Opportunities

  • AKM Moinuddin

• India-China Border Clash: Geostrategic Implications
• Is the ‘coronavirus bomb’ blasting in Bangladesh?
• Beware the second spike
• Canadian minister lauds strong foundation to bilateral ties

Society

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  Post-Corona Reconstruction Programme: No Going Back

  • Muhammad Yunus

• ‘Cliniva’: Revolutionary ecosystem to bridge the gap in healthcare
• Pregnancy and Coronavirus: COVID19 Precaution Tips for Pregnant Mothers
• Ways to deal with the Biggest Post Covid-19 Crisis: Mental Health
• Post pandemic ‘green recovery’: Bicycles can be a solution!

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 World Food Programme is undertaking the biggest humanitarian response

  • Staff Writer

• US President Donald Trump is to hold his first re-election campaign rally
• Russia's President Vladimir Putin declared a state of emergency
• The US Senate passed a bill that could block some Chinese companies
• The U.K. government warned of a “significant” recession