Columns

Business

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  Beside farmers in overcoming the corona crisis

  • Alamgir Khan

• Farmers lose, millers gain—not a new game
• 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

Column

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  Sin City Notes: How to disappear completely

  • Afsan Chowdhury

• Japan at a crossroad after Abe
• The Covid Crisis: China On The Road To Recovery
• Sin City Notes: In this dog-eat-dog town
• American Election - A Planetary Existential Question

Culture

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  Top celebrities add star power to Likee

  • Cultural Correspondent

• Shah Abdul Karim’s 11th death anniversary observed
• Anannya Top Ten Awards 2019 conferred
• Prachyanaut’s theatre fest starts in city
• Alamgir Huque: A modernist and experimental painter

Essays

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  Among Us: inexpensive and fun way to endure 2020

  • Saykot Kabir Shayok

• Geoscientist Moinul Huq passes away
• Political dimension of beauty in Siddik’s poetry
• Blown Away by Bake Away Desserts
• Review on Tarka’s New Outlet

Global

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  Encouraging Emission Tax to Tackle Climatic Impacts

  • Shishir Reza

• Report finds global economic outlook not as bad as expected
• World Cleanup Day: Microplastic a serious threat to human health!
• Huge fire breaks out at Beirut port a month after explosion
• Vaccine by Nov. 3? Halted study explains just how unlikely

Nation this week

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  Following days of protests by students

  • Staff Writer

• In a landmark verdict, the Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court
• Education authorities announced promotion
• Flood victims in central Bangladesh started returning home
• In a move that takes on extra meaning in the midst of the global pandemic

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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  Chipping away at the edifice

  • Courier Briefing

• Dhaka & Ankara: Friends beyond Benefits
• Bangladesh, Hungary to bolster ties in nuclear energy, training
• Turning the corner
• The Great Spectacle of Democracy

Society

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  Born to prevent war, UN at 75 faces a deeply polarized world

  • Edith M. Lederer

• India has deprived thousands of Kashmiri students like me of an education
• Police reforms in Breonna Taylor case praised, scrutinized
• Time running out to save Hatirjheel
• Decline of US-Led Global Order, Covid-19 Threaten to Worsen Conflict in the Middle East, Africa

Sports

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  Bangla youth wins ICC award

  • Ashikur Rahman

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

Technology

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  How to Get Hired for Online Writing Jobs

  • Rifat Tabassam

• From unbanked to fully digital? A look behind Bangladesh’s online money transfers
• Realme X50 5G Smartphone: Specs, Features and Price
• Is Your Smartphone a Silent Killer?
• Smartwatches: Too clever by half?

World this week

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  Representatives from the Afghan government

  • Staff Writer

• Late-stage studies of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate
• Tensions between India and China
• After heavy-handed measures in the days
• Mali’s president announced his resignation just hours after armed soldiers seized him from his home