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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  The EC can be trusted to blunder

  • Afsan Chowdhury

• Remembered beauty, enduring melody
• Memories of a raconteur
• Economic criminals are our new Razakars
• As Kamal Hossain remembers Bangabandhu . . .

Culture

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  Curtain falls on 18th Dhaka International Film Festival

  • Courier Correspondent

• Prateeti Datta passes away
• Kamar Ahmad Simon’s ‘Neel Mukut’ gets uncut censor certificate
• Gala book launching ceremony held at Brac Centre
• Asaduzzaman Noor receives ‘Professor Momtazuddin Ahmed Natyajon Puroshkar’

Essays

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  Anjan Dutt: Redefining age as just numbers

  • Md. Ishtiak Hossain

• Affection Towards Art and Nasir Ali Mamun
• Examining the social media use from an anthropological perspective
• Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max
• After the Dialogue

Global

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  Iran announces arrests over downing of plane that killed 176

  • Nasser Karimi And Aya Batrawy

• It takes two to tango
• Iran general steps out of Soleimani’s shadow to lead proxies
• Impeachment of Trump voted top 2019 news story in AP poll
• Air pollution has crossed the last 6 years record

Nation this week

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  The High Court granted four weeks

  • Staff Correspondent

• Issuing a nine-point directive to bring down air pollution level in Dhaka
• The High Court directed telephone operator Robi Axiata Limited
• Rights body Ain o Salish Kendra, or ASK
• The elections to Dhaka South City Corporation and Dhaka North City Corporation

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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  Who’s afraid of Greta Thunberg?

  • Svenja Blanke

• Mobile wallets herald a new era in finance
• Presidential deliberations
• ‘Made in Bangladesh’ gaining more recognition in Japan: Ambassador Naoki
• #BSF: Back to the Badlands

Society

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  Quest for Justice on Rape Cases in Bangladesh

  • Md. Zakir Hossain

• Myanmar panel: Security forces likely committed war crimes
• Releasing Hope against Dengue: WMP wants to bring ‘Wolbachia’ to Bangladesh
• Rangamati Tourist Attractions - Where to go and what to do
• WCBC: A Centre of Excellence in the Sundarbans

Sports

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  BPL 2019: Failing to catch on

  • Saif Hasnat

• Davis Cup: Nadal & Bautista lead Spain to clinch Sixth World Title
• India Tour of Bangladesh Cricket Team: A Retrospective
• ‘Top 4 in ODIs is a realistic goal for us’
• Shakib takes his place in the Pantheon

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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  The number of people infected with a new virus in China

  • Staff Correspondent

• Popular anger swelled in Iran over the accidental shootdown
• US Defence Secretary Mark Esper denied US troops are pulling out of Iraq
• A truck bomb exploded at a busy security checkpoint in Somalia’s capital
• Police in India said 23 people died during protests against a new citizenship law