Columns

Business

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  Is the Tk 90 dollar here to stay?

  • Anisul Islam

• Gulf Arab states, squeezed by climate change, still tout oil
• Leaked records open a ‘Pandora’ box of financial secrets
• AP Interview: UN refugee chief says Afghan stability needed
• Avocado: Is it overrated? Know the benefits, alternatives

Column

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  The half pass movement and the gathering storm

  • Afsan Chowdhury

• The Timelessness of Tolstoy’s Teachings: An Analysis of “Anna Karenina”
• Students on streets: Make it half fare or face full flare up
• The Cumilla incident: Drug, turf and other wars
• COP 26 failure shows why the South must walk separately

Culture

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  ‘Mythical’ night beckons Shironamhin fans

  • Mashfiq Mizan

• ‘Potua’ Quamrul Hassan’s birth centenary observed
• Curtain rises on Bangladesh Couture Week 2021 by FDCB
• Tashnuva Anan Shishir gets featured in Time's 100 best photos of 2021
• 'Beauty relies on truth': Mustapha Khalid Palash

Essays

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  National Professor Rafiqul Islam: for the love of language, education and Nazrul

  • Md. Ishtiak Hossain

• Make Your Perfume Last Longer
• Diego Maradona: A year without the Argentine Legend
• Lapwings: Birds that survived Goddess Eostre, Queen Victoria and Mrs Beeton
• Among the Loknath devotees

Global

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  The Uncertain Life of Rohingyas in the Swing of Hope and Despair

  • Professor Dr Ala Uddin

• Nations compromise on coal to strike UN climate agreement
• How to shop without costing the Earth
• New climate pledges make little dent in emissions gap
• It’s time for the renewables industry to get dirty

Nation this week

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  The prime accused in the slain Cumilla ward councillor

  • Staff Writer

• The Supreme Court in the full text of a verdict observed that Musammat Qumrunnahar
• The Directorate General of Health Services
• Six people were killed and 18 were injured in separate clashes during the second phase
• Bangladesh will receive $250 million

Politics

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  As Lebanese got poorer, politicians stowed wealth abroad

  • Bassem Mroue

• The Obama-Trump continuum in Biden’s White House
• Game over: How Didi on one foot put the boot in the Saffron brigade
• The battle for Brick Lane's curry houses goes to the heart of British-Bangladeshi identity
• ‘Do something’: Harris’ rapid rise driven by call to action

Reportage

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  Winter comes for Murad Hasan

  • Mashfiq Mizan

• The Kids are Alright
• World Peace Conference in Dhaka to infuse further momentum in peace diplomacy
• When muscle and money talk politics
• Historic Moment: UNGA adopts resolution on graduation of Bangladesh from LDC

Society

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  What’s wrong with the Global Estimates on Child Labour?

  • Edward Van Daalen

• Women have always been at the forefront of Sudanese resistance
• 17th Annual General Meeting of WildTeam
• Unique effort reopens girls’ school in an Afghan province
• The CHT treaty in two eras: full implementation and peacebuilding remain incomplete

Sports

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  Pele: First Brazilian football player to be dubbed as the greatest of all time

  • Faisal Moarafur Rasul

• Lionel Messi’s Charity Work: Exemplary philanthropy of legendary Argentine Footballer
• CM Punk: the jovial return of the ‘Best in the World’
• Tigers leave hapless Aussies searching for answers
• What Lionel Messi tells us about Qatar’s global ambitions

Technology

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  Hate speech in Myanmar continues to thrive on Facebook

  • Sam McNEIL and Victoria Milko

• Niche Publication: Rank Wizards brings a Bangladeshi perspective into investable digital assets
• Facebook whistleblower testifies: Five highlights
• Apple’s next iPhone mirrors last year’s, adds more storage
• Best Android, iOS Apps for Home Exercises

World this week

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  Israel’s failure to investigate shootings that killed more than 200 Palestinians

  • Staff Writer

• At least 31 migrants bound for Britain died when their boat sank in the English Channel
• China welcomed a virtual meeting
• The UN security council expressed its “deep concern”
• Urgent new efforts to calm Ethiopia’s escalating war