Columns

Business

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  AP Interview: UN refugee chief says Afghan stability needed

  • Kathy Gannon

• Avocado: Is it overrated? Know the benefits, alternatives
• Banking on good faith
• Bangladesh’s soaring economy has global acknowledgement: Mongolia
• The need of the hour is to augment demand

Column

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  Sins and Scenes: DCC market is where the city meets

  • Afsan Chowdhury

• The Great Afghan Reality Show
• The Relevance of Reading the Classics: Then and Now
• Bangladesh: A lucky geography but…
• America exits Iraq next. Will it be Bedlam 2.0?

Culture

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  Shah Abdul Karim: the ‘Baul Emperor’ Bard of Bengal

  • Md. Ishtiak Hossain

• Online film screening begins at Goethe Institut on Friday
• Three Bangladeshi films selected for Busan International Film Festival
• The search for reconciliation across generations
• Hot Ones: Inside the unique mechanism of celebrity interviews in the west

Essays

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  Egyptian Wonders from Giza to Memphis

  • Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman Niaz

• Of striking blue feathers and resilience: The rollers in Dhaka city are longing for open space
• Fitting recognition for a pioneering life’s work
• Breakfast sandwich recipes to kick off your day deliciously
• Bats gorge on Debdaru fruit and ‘grin in their sleep’!

Global

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  The unpublished memos that warned Blair against military action after 9/11

  • Adam Bychawski and Martin Williams

• Resonant soul of human organization — tonic human relations
• Ozone layer – keeping us, our food and vaccines cool: Celebrating Ozone layer day
• They were some of 9/11's biggest names. Where are they now?
• Afghanistan’s last Jew leaves after Taliban takeover

Nation this week

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  The per capita foreign debt of the citizens of Bangladesh

  • Staff Writer

• Bangladesh has decided to join a dialogue
• The Birshreshtha Jahangir
• Following the killing of Maj (retd) Sinha Rashed Khan
• The prime minister added her voice

Politics

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  The Obama-Trump continuum in Biden’s White House

  • Alamgir Khan

• 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
• In cooperation and conflict

Reportage

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  How to prevent another schools closure

  • Courier Briefing

• Vaccine equity, Rohingya, climate change on top of Hasina’s UNGA agenda
• Much-loved train journeys to Cox’s Bazar likely in 2 years
• But was it cricket?
• Afghan policy still to be determined: Momen

Society

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  With Taliban’s rise, India sees renewed threat in Kashmir

  • Aijaz Hussain

• Friction among Taliban pragmatists, hard-liners intensifies
• Yemenis are being starved, and not enough is being done to stop it
• Monsoon colours of Shyampur: When Yellow Bittern turns orange!
• Italy’s problem is not labour shortages, but a shortage of workers’ rights

Sports

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  CM Punk: the jovial return of the ‘Best in the World’

  • Md. Ishtiak Hossain

• Tigers leave hapless Aussies searching for answers
• What Lionel Messi tells us about Qatar’s global ambitions
• European Super League: Doomed from the start
• Hapless Tigers still searching for answers in Test cricket

Technology

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  Apple’s next iPhone mirrors last year’s, adds more storage

  • Michael Liedtke

• Best Android, iOS Apps for Home Exercises
• Once green, prehistoric Arabia drew early humans from Africa
• Innovative Approaches for Plantation Forestry in Bangladesh
• Smart Driving License & Some other Issues: A Far Cry

World this week

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  US President Joe Biden announced that the United States

  • Staff Writer

• A massive fire raged through an overcrowded prison near Indonesia’s capital Jakarta
• Israel approved a series of measures easing its blockade of the Gaza Strip
• The international scientists dispatched to China
• Relief for the victims of a powerful earthquake