Views

relationship between money and happiness

What the economics of happiness can teach us in Bangladesh

Rifat Ibne Jamal

10 HOUR(s) • Opinion

What we can learn from other countries to tackle our NPL crisis

Md Main Uddin

13 September 2026 • Opinion

Building a centralised digital health system for better care and accountability

SM Ziauddin Hyder

13 September 2026 • Opinion

A civil alternative for property transfers is a citizen’s right

Asif Bin Ali

13 September 2026 • Views

What will remain ours in the age of AI?

Shamsad Mortuza

12 September 2026 • Blowin’ in the Wind

Bangladesh’s El Niño risk is bigger than weather

Sudeepto Roy

12 September 2026 • Views

Bangladesh's time to look south again

Iftekhar Ul Karim

12 September 2026 • Views

Measles has exposed the cracks beneath Bangladesh's immunisation success

Ahmed Mushtaque Raza Chowdhury

12 September 2026 • Views

Column by Mahfuz Anam / Are we not forgetting the genocide of the Palestinians?

Mahfuz Anam

11 September 2026 • THE THIRD VIEW

9/11 attacks impact on the United States

25 years after 9/11, how did the ‘war on terror’ change the US?

Ali Riaz

11 September 2026 • Views

ICJ interim ruling on Israel’s war on Gaza: Unsurprisingly disappointing

Still, it has the potential to force the much-needed ceasefire by creating sufficient pressure on Israel's key allies.

27 January 2024

How ethics can make or break a company

In the quest for profitability and market dominance, ethical considerations often find themselves caught in the midst of hope and despair.

27 January 2024

Our energy plan is full of pitfalls

Why are we relying so much on foreign entities and resources to meet our energy needs?

26 January 2024

Death, destruction, and misery mean nothing to the merchants of war

How many more deaths will satisfy the war merchants’ thirst for profit?

26 January 2024

Has Dhaka become a status city?

The status city often serves the privileged, while the huddling masses eke out a minimal existence

26 January 2024

My powerless poster walk

Although we have the Graffiti Writing and Poster Sticking Control Act, 2012 to prevent visual pollution, nothing much has been done to implement it. Why, though?

26 January 2024

TIB's report on Bangladesh national election

TIB: The forever ‘villain’?

Learn from its reports and give this anti-graft body its due

25 January 2024

The Non-Lower or Non-Subordinate Judiciary of Bangladesh

Recently, this writer happened to have invited a friend, a judicial officer, to deliver a guest lecture on the functioning of our ‘lower judiciary’.

25 January 2024

Policy actions can aid reintegration of returnee migrants

The return and reintegration of migrants is an integral part of the migration cycle

25 January 2024

New monetary policy is appropriate in direction, but inadequate in dosage

Why this behind-the-curve approach to fighting inflation?

25 January 2024

Israel is stoking Iran’s wrath

Is Israel's desire for dominance in the region the only factor behind wanting to take the war to Iran?

25 January 2024

Two pages ripped, an entire nation torn apart

Asif Mahtab’s role as an educator and academic lends him a strong veneer of legitimacy

24 January 2024

117 women and girls faced violence in October

The cost of a complaint

When a complaint of sexual violence comes as a formal allegation, how we hear the stories in those complaints matters.

24 January 2024

Md Faruqul Islam | New school curriculum in Bangladesh

Good for students, good for teachers

If embraced by students, it has the potential to revolutionise their learning experience.

24 January 2024

New curriculum is detached from reality

It is surprising how the government has reacted, as this could have been an opportunity for them to use stakeholders' inputs and improve the curriculum further

24 January 2024