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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  Can politics in public Universities be banned?

  • Afsan Chowdhury

• A deadly typhoon brings misery in Eastern Japan
• Obaidul Huq . . . professionalism personified
• India-Bangladesh relations: The other side of the coin
• Xi In South Asia: Pakistan, India and Nepal in China’s Diplomacy

Culture

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  Curtain falls on artist Tandra Das

  • Takir Hossain

• Two artists to represent Bangladesh in Hollywood
• Miles performs in Canada
• Samarjit Roy teams up with Priyanka Gope for a duet song
• Archaeologist Zakaria’s 101st birth anniversary observed

Essays

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  Improving the Status and Working Conditions of the Teaching Profession

  • S. M. Rayhanul Islam

• Recitation artist Kamrul Hassan Monju
• Supporting children’s reading engagement with digital books
• Celebrating beauty and self-love with Nabela Noor
• Making cities child-responsive

Global

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  Is a massive earthquake imminent in Bangladesh?

  • Mosaddeq Al Mahmood

• Silence, devastation mark Bahamas town; but some are staying
• The burning of the Amazon is just the tip of the iceberg
• Asean should guarantee safe return of Rohingyas to Myanmar
• Regulating Kashmiri lives

Nation this week

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  Bangladesh’s economy will grow faster than all South Asian countries

  • Staff Correspondent

• Facebook has declined from setting up an office or installing its local service in Bangladesh
• Police in Chattogram arrested three persons including a staff
• The International Organization for Migration (IOM)
• The so-called Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for a bomb attack

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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  After Abrar

  • Courier Briefing

• Stocks continue to tumble as market confidence plummets
• ‘Japan’s impression of Bangladesh undergone dramatic change’
• SDG 13: Climate financing for adaptive and resilient Bangladesh
• ‘Ties are always underestimated’

Society

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  Third TigerScout Annual Camp in Khulna

  • Courier Desk Report

• WildHour on Indian Spotted Eagle at Noazesh Knowledge Centre
• Mermaid Beach Resort Vs Mermaid Café Chill n Grill
• Defence Ministry largely remains ineffective, says Sakhawat
• Is Indian Food in Cox’s Bazar a Good Choice?

Sports

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  ‘Top 4 in ODIs is a realistic goal for us’

  • Saif Hasnat

• Shakib takes his place in the Pantheon
• ‘It will be a special World Cup for Bangladesh’ - Mehidy Miraz
• 22 years a Tiger
• Spin is the best medicine

Technology

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  Creating Human Connection in the Age of Digital Transformation

  • Rumessa Mailloux

• SUST team invents low-cost cancer-detecting technology
• Users of prepaid meters in dilemma: multiple problems surfacing
• Searching for Ebola’s hideout
• Our satellite of love

World this week

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  Syrian government troops moved into towns

  • Staff Correspondent

• Protesters in Hong Kong trampled a Chinese flag
• Oil prices surged after an attack on Saudi Arabia’s largest oil processing plant
• The Taliban said Americans have the most to lose from cancelling peace negations
• Yemeni medics said they pulled dozens of bodies