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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  Memories of a raconteur

  • Syed Badrul Ahsan

• Economic criminals are our new Razakars
• As Kamal Hossain remembers Bangabandhu . . .
• Bangabandhu’s 10 January 1972 speech in translation
• Japan in the throes of demographic issues

Culture

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  BYLC honoured winners of Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge

  • Md. Ishtiak Hossain

• Shabdaboli participates in three Indian theatre festivals
• Dhaka Mountain Film Festival 2020 held in city
• 18th Dhaka International Film Festival starts in city
• World of Solitude

Essays

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  Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max

  • Rifat Tabassam

• After the Dialogue
• Cosmos Foundation welcomes on board Ambassador George Moose
• Danilo Türk to address Cosmos Dialogue on EU’s contemporary relevance
• The Best Short Breaks near Dhaka

Global

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  Iran announces arrests over downing of plane that killed 176

  • Nasser Karimi And Aya Batrawy

• It takes two to tango
• Iran general steps out of Soleimani’s shadow to lead proxies
• Impeachment of Trump voted top 2019 news story in AP poll
• Air pollution has crossed the last 6 years record

Nation this week

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  Issuing a nine-point directive to bring down air pollution level in Dhaka

  • Staff Writer

• The High Court directed telephone operator Robi Axiata Limited
• Rights body Ain o Salish Kendra, or ASK
• The elections to Dhaka South City Corporation and Dhaka North City Corporation
• The government published a list of 10,789 Razakars

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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  Presidential deliberations

  • Courier/UNB Report

• ‘Made in Bangladesh’ gaining more recognition in Japan: Ambassador Naoki
• #BSF: Back to the Badlands
• Mujib Year: Global leaders to converge on Dhaka
• A capital expects

Society

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  Rangamati Tourist Attractions - Where to go and what to do

  • Rifat Tabassam

• WCBC: A Centre of Excellence in the Sundarbans
• ‘Preema Donna – An Infinite Journey’ book unveiled
• ICAB celebrates in style Members’ Night 2019
• Andhra Pradesh’s Disha Act: Possible lessons for Bangladesh

Sports

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  BPL 2019: Failing to catch on

  • Saif Hasnat

• Davis Cup: Nadal & Bautista lead Spain to clinch Sixth World Title
• India Tour of Bangladesh Cricket Team: A Retrospective
• ‘Top 4 in ODIs is a realistic goal for us’
• Shakib takes his place in the Pantheon

Technology

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  Is Your Smartphone a Silent Killer?

  • Staff Writer

• Smartwatches: Too clever by half?
• Creating Human Connection in the Age of Digital Transformation
• SUST team invents low-cost cancer-detecting technology
• Users of prepaid meters in dilemma: multiple problems surfacing

World this week

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  Popular anger swelled in Iran over the accidental shootdown

  • Staff Correspondent

• US Defence Secretary Mark Esper denied US troops are pulling out of Iraq
• A truck bomb exploded at a busy security checkpoint in Somalia’s capital
• Police in India said 23 people died during protests against a new citizenship law
• Marathon international climate talks ended with negotiators postponing until next year