ACADEMIC activities in primary and secondary schools are disrupted amidst work abstention by teachers and employees. Assistant teachers of government primary schools and employees of secondary schools, on monthly pay order scheme...
THE interim government and several political parties, especially the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, appear to have embarked on a confrontational path about the timing of the next general elections. While the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and some other...
AS THE world watches, one of history鈥檚 greatest crimes has taken form.聽 Inaction, complicity and silence in the face of genocide have caused profound suffering to the Palestinian people.聽 No final reckoning or redress would be equivalent to the scale and magnitude of Israel鈥檚 depraved criminality...
BY THE time Washington and Beijing released their latest joint statement on May 12 鈥� ostensibly pressing pause on a spiralling tariff war 鈥� much of the world exhaled in cautious relief. But beneath the performative diplomacy and sterile communiqu茅s, a quieter suffering has gone largely unheard. For the world鈥檚 most vulnerable economies, the damage is neither...
ON MAY 14, Bangladesh was shocked by the tragic and brutal death of seven-year-old Sanim Hossain, a student at Al-Mu鈥檌n Islami Academy in Lakshmipur. Reports indicate that his teacher, Mahmudur Rahman, beat him to death. What followed was even more disturbing 鈥� the institution attempted to disguise the killing as a suicide. The suggestion that...
The death of Bangladeshis at the hands of India鈥檚 Border Security Force has become a grim reality, with barely any effective response that would stop the happening. The death hardly creates outrage outside a few rights groups. The Border Guard Bangladesh lodges protests. The issue comes up at bilateral meetings or dialogues. Yet, there is little sustained pressure or...
WITH the fall of Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 long-standing authoritarian regime in July 2024 鈥� toppled through a mass uprising after around hundreds of citizens were killed by state forces and Awami party workers 鈥� many in Bangladesh hoped for a democratic rebirth, one grounded in pluralism, justice, non-discrimination and civic respect. Yet, in the months that...
BANGLADESH has registered a surge in suspicious financial transactions and activities during the tenure of the interim government, installed after the fall of the Awami League regime on August 5, 2024, which suggests that it has not done enough to contain money laundering. The most recent annual report of the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit says that suspicious...
MACROECONOMIC performance, despite some improvements in the past nine months of the interim government, has still remained a cause for concern. A lack of political stability and the absence of necessary institutional reforms are believed to be hindering largely sustained macroeconomic progress. The Centre for Policy Dialogue in its third interim review of the...
WAZ mahfils 鈥� Islamic religious sermons rooted in centuries of South Asian Islamic tradition 鈥� have long served as spaces for spiritual guidance, communal unity, and a shared moral framework for communities across both rural and urban spaces. Many of these wazs continue to offer meaningful religious education and moral direction grounded in Islamic knowledge...
EACH Eid, millions of Bangladeshis undertake long journeys to reunite with loved ones, carrying with them gifts, savings and hopes. These homecomings, rooted in ritual and emotion, are meant to be moments of joy. Yet, with alarming regularity, they are punctuated by devastating reports of road crashes. This year was no different. The Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity...
GOOGLE Translate has become among the handiest apps for a good reason. It discards the clich茅 about the meaning getting lost in translation and helps strangers to connect in a naturally multilingual world...
BANGLADESH is one of the prominent developing countries in Asia, with a population exceeding 180 million, of which 48.8 per cent are under the age of 25. This young demographic holds immense potential. If provided with quality education and adequate training, this segment of the population could become a formidable asset for the country鈥檚 economic growth...
THE problem of gas supply to industries has raised alarm about the continued shortfall in production, warning of shutdown and unpaid wages in export-oriented factories. Four trade bodies in the apparel and ceramic sectors have said that operation in many factories has halved and that the situation could worsen after Eid. For more than a couple of years, power plants...
A HIGH allocation for women in the budget and the stringent oversight of the allocation can ensure a proper use of the budget funds meant for spending on women to attend to gender inequality. In the light of such a proposition, participants in a pre-budget dialogue, 鈥楢dvancing gender-responsive budgeting FFD4 Outcome鈥� that the Citizen鈥檚 Platform for SDGs...