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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  On the threshold of freedom

  • Syed Badrul Ahsan

• Administration and the people in times of Corona
• The Fergussion Report on Tackling Covid-19: ‘Mitigation’ Vs ‘Suppression’
• Dear DC of Kurigram
• The life of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920-1975)

Culture

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  Poet-folklorist Dr Ashraf Siddiqui no more

  • Cultural Correspondent

• Chirkutt cancels concerts amid coronavirus outbreak
• Muneir Chowdhury’s ‘Kabar’ staged at Shilpakala Academy
• Dhaka grooved with world renowned Manu Chao at BSA
• Bangladesh Street Theatre Festival concludes

Essays

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  Fried Pickles, Strawberry Shake and New Burgers at Farmhouse Burger

  • ​​​​​​​Ifreet Taheea

• An autobiography in the style of a novel
• Promises of secular spring
• Prof Mahfuza Khanam ASB Council president, Sabbir Ahmed gen secy
• Anjan Dutt: Redefining age as just numbers

Global

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  How India is on the verge of a massive refugee crisis of its own making

  • Chandan Kumar and Shweta Damle

• How big will the coronavirus epidemic be? An epidemiologist updates his concerns
• Will warmer weather stop the spread of coronavirus?
• Media faces challenges in covering coronavirus outbreak
• Peace in Afghanistan will be victory for the Taliban, a failure for the west

Nation this week

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  The government announced public holidays from March 29 to April 2

  • Staff Correspondent

• The country’s trade deficit eased by 2.33 per cent
• A High Court bench refused to hold hearing on a writ petition
• Grameenphone deposited Tk 1,000 crore
• An overcrowded boat carrying about 138 Rohingya refugees

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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  Bangladesh economy under threat due to COVID-19

  • AKM Moinuddin

• Pandemonium
• COVID-19: Lockdown envelopes film and entertainment sphere
• Love, in the time of...Corona!
• Bangabandhu’s life gives a great message to the world of 21st Century

Society

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  Bangabandhu and Bangali Nationalism

  • Dr. Syed Anwar Husain

• Women’s Role In Conserving Biodiversity
• Saga of brothel-based sex workers in Bangladesh
• Sajek Valley: Beauty Queen of Bangladesh
• Necessity of the International Women’s Day… or is it even necessary?

Sports

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  U-19 Champions: How Akbar’s Army scaled the summit

  • Saif Hasnat

• Cubs put Bangladesh on top of the world
• BPL 2019: Failing to catch on
• Davis Cup: Nadal & Bautista lead Spain to clinch Sixth World Title
• India Tour of Bangladesh Cricket Team: A Retrospective

Technology

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  Realme X50 5G Smartphone: Specs, Features and Price

  • Rifat Tabassam

• Is Your Smartphone a Silent Killer?
• Smartwatches: Too clever by half?
• Creating Human Connection in the Age of Digital Transformation
• SUST team invents low-cost cancer-detecting technology

World this week

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  The IOC announced a first-of-its-kind postponement of the Summer Olympics

  • Staff Correspondent

• Saudi Arabia’s King Salman was shown in state media in apparent good health
• The Taliban announced it would resume attacks against Afghan government forces
• One of every three people in Venezuela
• EU states agreed to launch a new military mission off the Libyan coast