THE collapse of a 45-year-old culvert on the Oxygen Point鈥揃aizid section of the road in Chattogram after heavy overnight rain, as the photograph that 抖阴精品 published on August 8 shows, is yet another testament of the chronic neglect of city...
SUCCESSIVE governments have showed little regard for public safety. The fact that many structures have been illegally erected around Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka proves the negligent attitude. The Civil Aviation Authority of...
For now, exactly a year after the formation of the interim government, it is disappointing to see the government that was installed through a bloody mass uprising has failed its people and is behaving more following the impulse of the Facebook response than acting on its political vision and commitment to principles of equality and justice. The way the interim...
I MOSTLY head home from the office and back to the office from home, which has been a routine for long but for a few erratic days when I have ventured out in other directions, mostly before and after work hours. But it gradually became challenging, risky too, to shuttle between the office and home, let alone darting out here and there even when the need was pressing as violence broke out with student protests...
FOR millions in Bangladesh, water is far more than a daily need, it is the frontline of the climate crisis. From the chars of Gaibandha to the saline deltas of Satkhira and the arid Barind plains, communities now face water stress as a daily burden. Salinity seeps into ponds, floods contaminate wells and prolonged droughts leave tube wells dry. For families living on the...
FOR decades, the Secondary School Certificate examinations have been a gateway to higher education and socio-economic mobility. Introduced during the colonial era and modified post independence, the examinations have for long been perceived as a milestone that shapes the future of millions of students every year. But in 2025, amidst rapid shifts in pedagogy...
THE findings of a study report that about 98 per cent of the children living in Dhaka are exposed a high level of lead poisoning, which can cause memory loss, a headache, depression and the loss of intelligent quotient, is worrying. The study that the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh along with the Stanford School of Medicine of the...
THE interim government of the peace Nobel laureate professor Muhammad Yunus has completed one year in office today. Three days after the Awami League鈥檚 authoritarian government of Sheikh Hasina had been ousted from power in the face of a massive popular uprising on August 5, 2024, Yunus took over with three pronounced objectives: the trial of the League leaders...
THE news from the US trade office was better than expected. Sri Lanka which had been shocked by the sudden imposition of a 44 per cent tariff by the US authorities in April 2024 has seen it reduced to 20 per cent. This is a major concession for a country that is perceived to have strong trading and political ties with China, which the United States views as its main...
IT WAS quite challenging to have covered the uprising events, each bloody day especially after July 16, when six of the protesters were left dead, with a handful of reporters. It was a small group, composed of, alphabetically ordered, Ahammad Foyez who on December 5, 2024 was appointed to the press wing of the chief adviser to the interim government as...
WEAPONISATION of starvation is going on in Palestine to evict the remaining population to make more room for Israeli settlers. The unlawful transformation of Palestinians into refugees raises questions about the legitimacy of the genocidal starvation. This is a violation of the basic human right to access food. Palestinians are perishing silently, and their resistance...
BANGLADESH is at the forefront of climate chaos. From scorching heatwaves to unrelenting floods, environmental stresses are remaking the nation鈥檚 social and economic fabric. Women, particularly poor and rural women, bear the brunt. But they are seldom viewed as the heart of climate leadership. In a world heating faster than expected, an equitable climate future...
THE government鈥檚 discontinuing its support for the national academy for children with special needs at a time when there are barely any facilities to ensure access to education for children with autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders is disconcerting. The Planning Commission on August 4 decided to close the academy on the grounds that the implementation of the...
THIS is welcome that the chief adviser to the interim government has announced the date of the 13th national elections. The chief adviser, in his address to the nation marking the first anniversary of July Mass Uprising Day on August 5, unambiguously said that he would write to the chief election commissioner to make all preparations for holding the next national...
Below is the text of the July Declaration that the chief adviser to the interim government Muhammad Yunus read out at a public gathering on the South Plaza of the National Assembly building in Dhaka on August 5, marking a year of the deposal of the authoritarian Awami League government...