Columns

Business

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  Is the Tk 90 dollar here to stay?

  • Anisul Islam

• Gulf Arab states, squeezed by climate change, still tout oil
• Leaked records open a ‘Pandora’ box of financial secrets
• AP Interview: UN refugee chief says Afghan stability needed
• Avocado: Is it overrated? Know the benefits, alternatives

Column

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  Students on streets: Make it half fare or face full flare up

  • Farid Hossain

• The Cumilla incident: Drug, turf and other wars
• COP 26 failure shows why the South must walk separately
• Mother of Summits: Sweet and Sour Diplomacy, But Nothing Cooked!
• TIFF at pandemic time focuses on human understanding

Culture

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  Bangladesh-S Korea to have more cultural exchanges in future: KM Khalid

  • Cultural Correspondent

• British Council’s 'UK 1971: People's Solidarity with Bangladesh's Liberation’ exhibition begins
• Winter arrived with rock maestros, and a striking ‘November Rain’
• Eminent writer-educator Hasan Azizul Huq no more
• 'Rehana Maryam Noor': Badhan, Saad win accolades at Asia Pacific Screen Awards

Essays

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  Lapwings: Birds that survived Goddess Eostre, Queen Victoria and Mrs Beeton

  • Enam Ul Haque

• Among the Loknath devotees
• Redesigning Assessment Practices in Higher Education
• Boobook sings Emily’s tune, not Shakespeare’s ‘songs of death’
• Black Kite: A happy forager, not the hunter hubby of Aesop’s eagle

Global

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  The Uncertain Life of Rohingyas in the Swing of Hope and Despair

  • Professor Dr. Ala Uddin

• Nations compromise on coal to strike UN climate agreement
• How to shop without costing the Earth
• New climate pledges make little dent in emissions gap
• It’s time for the renewables industry to get dirty

Nation this week

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  The Supreme Court in the full text of a verdict observed that Musammat Qumrunnahar

  • Staff Writer

• The Directorate General of Health Services
• Six people were killed and 18 were injured in separate clashes during the second phase
• Bangladesh will receive $250 million
• The European Union has expressed concern that some of the Digital Security Act

Politics

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  As Lebanese got poorer, politicians stowed wealth abroad

  • Bassem Mroue

• The Obama-Trump continuum in Biden’s White House
• 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

Reportage

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  When muscle and money talk politics

  • Courier Briefing

• Historic Moment: UNGA adopts resolution on graduation of Bangladesh from LDC
• Hasina's strong solidarity message to Erdogan elevated ties: Envoy
• Inclusive politics essential for every country’s prosperity: British Minister
• Our very own version of ‘Big Pharma’

Society

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  2 trials, 1 theme: White men taking law into their own hands

  • Noreen Nasir, Sudhin Thanawala and Adam Geller

• I travelled around Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. This is what I saw
• Is school the solution to child labour? Not everywhere, and not for all children
• Cruelty to Animal: Soaring like Deluge
• Corporal Punishment of Children Is A Serious Matter

Sports

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  Pele: First Brazilian football player to be dubbed as the greatest of all time

  • Faisal Moarafur Rasul

• Lionel Messi’s Charity Work: Exemplary philanthropy of legendary Argentine Footballer
• CM Punk: the jovial return of the ‘Best in the World’
• Tigers leave hapless Aussies searching for answers
• What Lionel Messi tells us about Qatar’s global ambitions

Technology

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  Hate speech in Myanmar continues to thrive on Facebook

  • Sam McNEIL and Victoria Milko

• Niche Publication: Rank Wizards brings a Bangladeshi perspective into investable digital assets
• Facebook whistleblower testifies: Five highlights
• Apple’s next iPhone mirrors last year’s, adds more storage
• Best Android, iOS Apps for Home Exercises

World this week

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  At least 31 migrants bound for Britain died when their boat sank in the English Channel

  • Staff Writer

• China welcomed a virtual meeting
• The UN security council expressed its “deep concern”
• Urgent new efforts to calm Ethiopia’s escalating war
• Sudan’s military seized power in Khartoum