LIFE skills are essential for living. In 1993, the World Health Organisation defined life skills as 鈥榓bilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life.鈥� Life skills are many and...
THE ongoing civil war in Myanmar is one of Asia鈥檚 most chronic and dangerous crises, located at the very heart of Indo-Pacific geopolitics. The February 2021 military coup did not simply derail the country鈥檚 democratic aspirations. It created one of the...
ONCE, Nurul Islam鈥檚 nets would fill with fish, sustaining both his family and the local community. 鈥楾wenty years ago, this river water was good. It was full of life,鈥� recalls Nurul Islam, 70, in a Reuters interview in 2023. His family has lived along the...
CORRUPTION in Bangladesh remains persistent in the changed political context, the chair of the global Transparency International observed during his three-day official visit in Dhaka. The chair, Fran莽ois Val茅rian made the remark in...
THE Appellate Division on September 4 upheld the High Court鈥檚 acquittal of all the 49 accused in the cases of the August 21, 2004 grenade attack on an Awami League rally, nullifying the subordinate court鈥檚 conviction of the accused. The heinous...
SAMAR Abu Elouf, who won the 2025 World Press Photo of the Year for the picture below, posted on her Instagram account that her son鈥檚 close friend Sami Shukour had been killed while he 鈥榳ent to look for flour to feed himself and his family.鈥�...
THE forthcoming Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union (DUCSU) election will take place at a pivotal moment in our history and carries profound significance. In the wake of July uprising, this is not merely a contest between student panels 鈥� it is a battle that could shape the political future of Bangladesh itself...
WE OFTEN think that discrimination and patriarchy begin with grand gestures such as denying girls education, restricting women from working, or limiting their presence in public life. But did we really look closely at our homes? Not only with our eyes but also with our hearts. If you did, I bet you would see that it often starts with the tiniest actions: a plate left on the dining...
WE LIVE in an age defined by the fourth industrial revolution, where technological progress is advancing at a pace previously unimaginable. Expanded data storage, massive information flows and lightning-fast processing already reveal how far innovation has carried us. Yet the real transformation lies in the convergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and...
IN AN increasingly digital Bangladesh, the urgency of establishing a comprehensive data protection regime cannot be overstated. Every day, millions of citizens share personal data with government agencies, banks, telecommunication companies, healthcare providers, and private online platforms. This information ranges from national identity card details to financial...
The Roads and Highways Department coming to suspend its eviction drive to reclaim grabbed land after one of its surveyors was attacked by illegal occupiers speaks of the sorry state of reclamation efforts. The surveyor came under attack on September 2 during a drive to demolish illegal structures beside the Dhaka鈥揗ymensingh Highway at Sripur in Gazipur. Officials of...
MIGRANT Bangladeshi workers overseas are often reported to have run into problems, mostly because of offences such as overstaying visas, lacking valid documents and misusing permits. In the latest such incident, Malaysian immigration authorities, as 抖阴精品 reported on September 4, quoting the Malaysian national news agency Bernama, detained 770 migrant workers in...
THERE are two types of war correspondents. The first type does not attend press conferences. They do not beg generals and politicians for interviews. They take risks to report from combat zones. They send back to their viewers or readers what they see, which is almost always diametrically opposed to official narratives. This first type, in every war, is a tiny minority...
The police today find themselves in a peculiar bind 鈥� damned if they act, damned if they do not. They are, on the one hand, accused of inaction, negligence and, even, complicity when citizens face mob attacks, kidnapping, or daylight robberies. They are, on the other hand, condemned for excessive force, partisanship and brutality whenever protests are suppressed...
EVERY year on September 4, the world observes World Sexual Health Day, a global initiative that underlines the essential role of sexual health in human well-being. Sexual health is not merely the absence of disease or dysfunction; it embodies safety, responsibility, dignity and fundamental rights. Promoting it ensures that every individual, regardless of gender, age or...