Columns

Business

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  Leaked records open a ‘Pandora’ box of financial secrets

  • Michael Liedtke and Jonathan Mattise

• AP Interview: UN refugee chief says Afghan stability needed
• Avocado: Is it overrated? Know the benefits, alternatives
• Banking on good faith
• Bangladesh’s soaring economy has global acknowledgement: Mongolia

Column

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  Bangladesh: Adultery and the nature of the village state?

  • Afsan Chowdhury

• Initial approval rates reflect a shaky start for Japan’s new leader
• Remarkable Rise of China: Impact on Global Power Politics
• Japan gets a new leader following the process of an old tradition
• South Asia: The graveyard of regionalism

Culture

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  Artist Shahabuddin Ahmed's paintings sold at international auction by Sowda and ARTcon

  • Cultural Correspondent

• Mahakal stages Nasir Uddin Yousuff’s play ‘Ghum Nei’ at Mohila Samity
• “Hardship determines the excellence in arts”
• ‘Adhkhana Bhalo Chele Adha Mostaan': the duality within Arnob's odyssey
• 'Beautifully Me': Nabela Noor's book will teach you self-love

Essays

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  ‘Hariprabha Takeda: an unsung traveller of Bengal’

  • Md. Ishtiak Hossain

• Supporting students' mental health and wellbeing at university
• Reinventing South Asian Education in the (Post)-COVID Era
• Exploring alternative learning spaces in times of uncertainty
• Bodybuilding Supplements to Avoid when Gyming

Global

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  Lonely male Watercock: All dressed up and nowhere to go!

  • Enam Ul Haque

• Championing the vulnerable
• US says ivory-billed woodpecker, 22 other species extinct
• Bangladesh: On the frontline of a planet in peril
• They said it: Leaders at the hybrid UN, in their own words

Nation this week

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  Coming off its earlier prediction

  • Staff Writer

• Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud
• The High Court questioned the legality
• The High Court on Thursday granted interim bail
• The per capita foreign debt of the citizens of Bangladesh

Politics

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  As Lebanese got poorer, politicians stowed wealth abroad

  • Bassem Mroue

• The Obama-Trump continuum in Biden’s White House
• Game over: How Didi on one foot put the boot in the Saffron brigade
• The battle for Brick Lane's curry houses goes to the heart of British-Bangladeshi identity
• ‘Do something’: Harris’ rapid rise driven by call to action

Reportage

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  As Durga takes her leave

  • Courier Briefing

• Japan to provide more vaccine doses through COVAX in November
• UNESCO-Bangabandhu Prize: Hasina to visit France in mid-Nov
• Baro Sardar Bari shines again after magical touch
• The AP Interview: Kerry says climate talks may miss target

Society

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  Nobel literary winner: UK govt lacks compassion for refugees

  • Jill Lawless

• 2 win medicine Nobel for showing how we react to heat, touch
• Physics Nobel rewards work on climate change, other forces
• Nobel in chemistry honors ‘greener’ way to build molecules
• 3 US-based economists win Nobel for research on wages, jobs

Sports

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  Pele: First Brazilian football player to be dubbed as the greatest of all time

  • Faisal Moarafur Rasul

• Lionel Messi’s Charity Work: Exemplary philanthropy of legendary Argentine Footballer
• CM Punk: the jovial return of the ‘Best in the World’
• Tigers leave hapless Aussies searching for answers
• What Lionel Messi tells us about Qatar’s global ambitions

Technology

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  Facebook whistleblower testifies: Five highlights

  • Barbara Ortutay and David Klepper

• Apple’s next iPhone mirrors last year’s, adds more storage
• Best Android, iOS Apps for Home Exercises
• Once green, prehistoric Arabia drew early humans from Africa
• Innovative Approaches for Plantation Forestry in Bangladesh

World this week

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  The World Health Organization unveiled a team

  • Staff Writer

• The World Health Organization
• Former Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida
• The UK government amended its foreign travel guidance
• US President Joe Biden announced that the United States