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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  What Ails Afghanistan: Chaos In Kabul

  • Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury

• On the threshold of freedom
• Administration and the people in times of Corona
• The Fergussion Report on Tackling Covid-19: ‘Mitigation’ Vs ‘Suppression’
• Dear DC of Kurigram

Culture

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  Sadhana Islam’s folk motifs and natural splendor of Bengal

  • Takir Hossain

• Kuddus Boyati releases a song about coronavirus
• Film artistes stand by masses
• Poet-folklorist Dr Ashraf Siddiqui no more
• Chirkutt cancels concerts amid coronavirus outbreak

Essays

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  Indian Delicacies at Kurry Accent

  • ​​​​​​​Ifreet Taheea

• Fried Pickles, Strawberry Shake and New Burgers at Farmhouse Burger
• An autobiography in the style of a novel
• Promises of secular spring
• Prof Mahfuza Khanam ASB Council president, Sabbir Ahmed gen secy

Global

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  Climate change: A major global threat

  • Isidoros Karderinis

• Who is to pay for the loss of Bangladesh due to ensuing global recession!
• Is there a COVID-19 timebomb in Bangladesh?
• How India is on the verge of a massive refugee crisis of its own making
• How big will the coronavirus epidemic be? An epidemiologist updates his concerns

Nation this week

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  The government suspended all programmes celebrating Bangla New Year

  • Staff Writer

• The government announced public holidays from March 29 to April 2
• 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

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 scourge of our times

  • Courier Briefing

• The strange disappearance of a journalist
• Even as Coronavirus diverts minds, dengue menace lurks
• Coronavirus: Risks that should be counted in Bangladesh Economy
• The plague of coronavirus disease

Society

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  COVID-19 gives the lie to global health expertise

  • Sarah L Dalglish

• Bangabandhu and Bangali Nationalism
• Women’s Role In Conserving Biodiversity
• Saga of brothel-based sex workers in Bangladesh
• Sajek Valley: Beauty Queen of Bangladesh

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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  Saudi Arabia said that it would raise its oil exports

  • Staff Writer

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