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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  G20 and Japan’s renewed focus on tourism

  • Monzurul Huq

• Runaway Jordanian princess seems to have stirred up an international diplomatic crisis
• Darroch’s disastrous diplomatic despatch: Should an ambassador speak the truth, or lie?
• General Ershad’s place in Bangladesh’s history
• Twist and turn in Japan’s punitive measures against South Korea

Culture

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  Ceramic Art Project - 50 artists 100 mugs

  • Culture Desk Review

• Kamruzzaman’s award winning treatment of global warming
• Dhaka Gallery launches with 26 contemporary artists
• Hasina: A Daughter’s Tale going to Durban Film Festival
• A brave experimentalist who pushes viewers to think

Essays

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  The irreplaceable bohemian: the Human, the Humayun

  • Md. Ishtiak Hossain

• Promoting the culture of respect through education
• Alamgir’s poetic words of protest
• Star Wars director JJ Abrams writing a Spiderman comic with his son
• Protecting children from bullying and cyber bullying

Global

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  Why the Xi-Putin bromance bears watching

  • Jonathan Eyal

• How the United Nations is quietly being turned into a public-private partnership
• From Libya to Texas, tragedies illustrate plight of migrants
• In Cannes
• ​​​​​​​Why Istanbul’s rerun is a battle for the soul of Turkey

Nation this week

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  Overall flood situation in the country

  • Staff Correspondent

• The incidence of violence against women
• Households have to pay Tk 175 more for gas
• BNP’s Golam Mohammad Siraj won the Bogura-6 by-elections
• More than 3.5 million (35.82 lakh)

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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  The End of an Era

  • Courier Briefing

• Dhaka-Seoul Ties: Bringing mutual prosperity tomorrow
• Bangladesh is the best teacher on adaptation: Ban Ki-moon
• Port City Rising
• To subsidize or not: Increased gas prices

Society

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  PROJONMMO- The Birth of a Life

  • Fouzia Ahmed Afia

• Rubana wants to erase ‘blood-sucker’ tag, ensure good labour practices
• Middle Income Nation, or Wonderland of Mindless Acts?
• The U.S. should not demonize Huawei – it should invest to compete
• Trump's 'deal of the century': 17 things we learned

Sports

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  Shakib takes his place in the Pantheon

  • Shayan S Khan

• ‘It will be a special World Cup for Bangladesh’ - Mehidy Miraz
• 22 years a Tiger
• Spin is the best medicine
• Series up for grabs

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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  The Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed the first case of Ebola in the eastern city of Goma

  • Staff Correspondent

• Iran began enriching uranium to
• A small group of protesters smashed their way
• Turkey’s opposition won a high-stakes rerun of the Istanbul mayoral election
• Demonstrators in Hong Kong gathered outside the office