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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  The JU-CL crisis: Who looks worse, CL or the VC?

  • Afsan Chowdhury

• A delightful Bangladesh event in Japan enthralls foreign audience
• The decline and fall of John Bolton: But does it spell the end of an epoch?
• Kashmir, Assam and a weak economy: What’s India’s priority?
• Killer robots are coming

Culture

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  PM gives financial assistance to Andrew Kishore

  • Cultural Correspondent

• 25th General Summit of International Councils of Museums
• Dhaka International Folk Fest to start on Nov 14
• Bharat-Bangladesh Film Award to be held at ICCB
• ‘Shonibar Bikel’ to be screened in Busan and Hong Kong film festivals

Essays

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  Celebrating beauty and self-love with Nabela Noor

  • Mohammad Zoglul Kamal

• Making cities child-responsive
• Transforming teaching methods in the digital age
• Little Asia in Dhanmondi
• Ending violence against children

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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  Police in Chattogram arrested three persons including a staff

  • Staff Correspondent

• The International Organization for Migration (IOM)
• 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

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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  The monster in the room

  • Courier Briefing

• Bangladesh to become centre of greater Bengal economy: Japanese Ambassador
• Architecture: Improving the quality of human life
• Towards a definition of local self-government
• Mass Shooting: A major stumbling block for the USA

Society

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  Managing the Rohingya refugee crisis: Who holds power?

  • Arnab Roy Chowdhury Ahmed Abid

• ‘Spirit of victory still within me’
• Friendship: Bangladesh-China Youth Camp 2019 begins in Yunnan
• Journey with R language!
• Future of Bangladesh in safe hands

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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  Oil prices surged after an attack on Saudi Arabia’s largest oil processing plant

  • Staff Correspondent

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