COP30, profit over people, and growing climate threats
30 November 2025, 02:00 AM
Opinion
Opinion / Our ports are national assets, not bargaining chips
No country has ever built a strong foundation by abandoning national pride and acting like a broker, as our governments often tend to do.
6 November 2025, 03:00 AM
When teachers are attacked and workers die, who takes responsibility?
The teacher's protest and the deadly fire at a factory in Mirpur reveal how the state views its people, and where its priorities lie.
18 October 2025, 02:00 AM
Opinion / The interim government’s troubling continuity
29 September 2025, 03:00 AM
Opinion
Badruddin Umar: A tribute
Teacher, comrade, and lifelong revolutionary Badruddin Umar (20 December 1931 – 7 September 2025) is no more. We offer him our deepest respect and love. Alongside this, on behalf of the people of Bangladesh, we convey our gratitude — for he devoted his entire life, thought, and activism to the cause of the people.
7 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Violence, discrimination, and the failure to reform
6 September 2025, 04:08 AM
Opinion
Student union elections: Rescuing the universities from decline
Whichever party came to power, its student organisation gained overwhelming dominance while all other groups were silenced or marginalised.
22 August 2025, 03:00 AM
ONE YEAR OF SHEIKH HASINA'S FALL / The unfinished journey of Drohojatra
The path ahead is difficult but the people of this land have shown time and again that they can rise.
5 August 2025, 03:00 AM
Is Development Incompatible With Democracy?
We are living in the digital age of growth with deprivation; we see affluence with poverty, globalisation with increasing restrictions on
20 October 2015, 18:00 PM
We need to estimate tax-service ratio
The finance minister has placed the budget of 2015-16 in the parliament that has been prepared under many favourable factors - lower petroleum price in the global market, huge foreign exchange reserve, stable export market, low inflation, and the lowest level of political opposition.
4 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Two years of denial and betrayal
THE families of Rana Plaza victims have passed two years crying for their dear and near ones, suffering in their daily lives and waiting for due compensation and jobs.
23 April 2015, 18:00 PM