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Published columns, commentary and analysis.
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16 September 2026OpinionThe Daily Star
Last July, BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed said his party wanted the viva marks of the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination reduced to 50 from 200 to limit scope for discrimination in Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) recruitment.
Read →13 September 2026OpinionThe Daily Star
A woman’s profession should not depend on a politician’s religious expectations
Read →6 September 2026NewsThe Daily Star
Sifat Abdullah's trouble began with his claim that two electricity bills for his household totalled Tk 9,000
Read →2 June 2026NewsThe Daily Star
A decomposed body in Mirpur-11 exposes the fragility of elder care in modern life
Read →27 May 2026NewsThe Daily Star
Measles continues to ravage our children and with them their faimilies
Read →26 May 2026NewsThe Daily Star
When planning fails selectively, and always in the same direction, always at the worker's expense -- it is no longer a planning problem.
Read →20 May 2026Rights & JusticeThe Daily Star
Ramisa’s murder must not become another passing outrage
Read →26 April 2026OpinionThe Daily Star
About a month and a half has passed since the arrest and detention of leftist student leader Sheikh Tasnim Afroz Emi.
Read →20 April 2026OpinionThe Daily Star
Journalism is meant to hold power to account, and mobile journalism, using smartphones for reporting and storytelling, should have ideally taken that mission to new heights.
Read →17 April 2026NewsThe Daily Star
From Shahbagh to Kushtia, repeated attacks show that official warnings mean little when violent crowds face too few consequences
Read →19 March 2026OpinionThe Daily Star
Is involvement in politics a crime? Education Minister ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon posed that question while defending the government’s decision to appoint vice-chancellors to seven universities and a new chairman of the University Grants Commission on Monday.
Read →29 December 2025OpinionThe Daily Star
The National Citizen Party (NCP) was born with a claim that it would not practise politics as usual.
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