Columns

Business

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  Budget priorities: Jobs that last and hike in private investment

  • Haradhan Ganguly

• 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
• Jute goods glitter at Dhaka International Trade Fair

Column

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  Dear VC, don’t pay to get a ranking

  • Afsan Chowdhury

• US- Iran: Momentum towards war must be reined in
• China and US Trade war
• Is this food terrorism?
• Why does extremism attract young people?

Culture

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  Dhaka Doclab for South Asian films to commence in August

  • Cultural Correspondent

• Adaptation of Brecht’s anti-war drama staged
• Takir participates in Writers’ Residency Fellowship in Sweden
• Reflecting on the defiant verses of Sikandar Abu Zafar
• Feedback concert: 40-year Feedback Loop

Essays

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  Final Episode of Game of Thrones: Adios Westeros!

  • Saykot Kabir Shayok

• Deracinating the Poverty-Disparity-Inequality Trap from Bangladesh
• Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 5: Queen of Ashes
• The global situation of freedom of expression and access to information
• Your Pizza Has Been Delivered

Global

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  National Geographic to launch ‘Sea to Source’ expedition to study plastic pollution

  • National Geographic Press Release

• Women’s stories from the frontline of Sudan’s revolution must be told
• The 'Washington Consensus' is dead. But what should replace it?
• Dimensions of Temperature, Rainfall and Humidity in Bangladesh
• Population and Environmental Displacement in Bangladesh

Nation this week

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  Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

  • Staff Correspondent

• Poverty continues to decline but at a slower pace since 2010
• After back-to-back years of declining pass rates in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations
• Jamaat-e-Islami welcomed the new political platform formed by its breakaway activists
• Bangladesh and Brunei signed seven instruments

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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  BRI to help achieve Bangladesh’s development goals: Dr Rizvi

  • Diplomatic Correspondent

• Bangladesh, Japan expecting big during Hasina’s visit to Tokyo
• Dhaka ready to host SEACO’s launching conference in June
• Looking out for our farmers
• Against hubris, something stirs...

Society

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  Subir Nandi - a musical icon of Bangladesh

  • Sheikh Nahid Neazy

• To fix or not to fix at Gelatofix
• Bangladesh Pavilion opens at Venice Biennale
• Mother’s Day: A blessing in disguise, but…
• Journalists need public support to deliver the truth

Sports

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  ‘It will be a special World Cup for Bangladesh’ - Mehidy Miraz

  • Saif Hasnat

• 22 years a Tiger
• Spin is the best medicine
• Series up for grabs
• How much can Shakib lift?

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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  Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia

  • Staff Correspondent

• As many as four oil tankers anchored in the Mideast
• Two Reuters journalists who were under detention in Myanmar
• Spain's governing Socialists won the country's third election in four years
• Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky scored a landslide victory