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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  Kashmir, Assam and a weak economy: What’s India’s priority?

  • Afsan Chowdhury

• Killer robots are coming
• Panic in Hong Kong: China chooses to remain calm, for now!
• Chunks of Bengali history
• Assam: Is Bangladesh ready?

Culture

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  ‘Shonibar Bikel’ to be screened in Busan and Hong Kong film festivals

  • Cultural Correspondent

• Partha Barua and Partha Majumder to launch a music school
• Drik turns 30
• Discussion on World War II held at Russian Cultural Centre
• 3rd edition of Dhaka DocLab: A blessing for aspiring South Asian filmmakers

Essays

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  Transforming teaching methods in the digital age

  • S. M. Rayhanul Islam

• Little Asia in Dhanmondi
• Ending violence against children
• Ensuring girls’ education through adequate investment
• Sacred Games season 2: of godman and goodwill

Global

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  Silence, devastation mark Bahamas town; but some are staying

  • Michael Weissenstein

• The burning of the Amazon is just the tip of the iceberg
• Asean should guarantee safe return of Rohingyas to Myanmar
• Regulating Kashmiri lives
• Leaked documents show Brazil’s Bolsonaro has grave plans for Amazon rainforest

Nation this week

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  The International Organization for Migration (IOM)

  • Staff Correspondent

• The so-called Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for a bomb attack
• Four members of the United People's Democratic Front
• Bangladesh will work with the United Nations refugee agency
• Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday shrugged off the allegations of torture in custody

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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  Mass Shooting: A major stumbling block for the USA

  • Mahde Hassan

• Bangladesh in China's BRI
• ‘Only friendship and cooperation can buy security’: Javad Zarif
• Multilateralism and its discontents
• Addressing plastic waste management in Rohingya camps also a priority

Society

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  ‘Spirit of victory still within me’

  • Saykot Kabir Shayok

• Friendship: Bangladesh-China Youth Camp 2019 begins in Yunnan
• Journey with R language!
• Future of Bangladesh in safe hands
• Financial Inclusion Enabling Piggyback Basic Social Services

Sports

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  ‘Top 4 in ODIs is a realistic goal for us’

  • Saif Hasnat

• Shakib takes his place in the Pantheon
• ‘It will be a special World Cup for Bangladesh’ - Mehidy Miraz
• 22 years a Tiger
• Spin is the best medicine

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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  The Taliban said Americans have the most to lose from cancelling peace negations

  • Staff Correspondent

• Yemeni medics said they pulled dozens of bodies
• A tense, stuttering, at times even awkward Summit of the G7
• Some schools re-opened in Indian-administered Kashmir this week
• India’s government has revoked disputed Kashmir’s special status