SANJANA (pseudonym) is a third-year student at one of the most renowned universities of Bangladesh where she finds herself constantly struggling with rigorous routines, weekly tests and assignments, and sometimes hefty deadlines. Situations in her...
THE country鈥檚 education sector has slipped into a state of restless paralysis. Students protest at Shahbagh, at Barisal highway crossings, at the gates of Jagannath University, while teachers 鈥� from government primary schools to private colleges...
AIR pollution continues to worsen while corrective measures remain fragmented and ineffective. Bangladesh faces a persistent health crisis as fine particulate matter increasingly erodes life expectancy. The latest Air Quality Life Index report shows that...
INDIA鈥橲 Border Security Force has once again promised to stop killing Bangladeshis by employing additional precautionary measures whilst Border Guard Bangladesh has renewed its call for an end to such violence in the frontiers. Dhaka has also...
FIVE journalists were among the 22 people killed on August 25, 2025, in Israeli strikes on the Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip. Following global condemnation, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement saying Israel...
THE climate crisis is no longer an impending threat discussed in distant scientific circles rather it has arrived and is reshaping the world before our eyes. From unprecedented wildfires and deadly heatwaves to erratic monsoons and rising seas, the...
FROM Arctic ice fields to the depths of the Mariana Trench 鈥� and now, disturbingly, inside the human brain 鈥� microplastics have made themselves at home in every corner of the Earth. These minuscule plastic fragments, most smaller than five...
FOR generations, a toxic statement has echoed in our society: 鈥榃omen work less than men.鈥� This belief has shaped gender roles, justified unequal treatment, and diminished the value of women鈥檚 daily labour. But when we look closely, the myth does not stand the test of reality.
THE government鈥檚 move to set prices of essential medicines and the cost of medical tests is welcome. The government on August 26 announced that a committee had been formed to set medicine prices. The setting of medicine prices and medical test...
A DECLINE in prices on the international market, as 抖阴精品 reported on August 28, has failed to leave hardly any impact on prices on the domestic market, making consumers bear the brunt that they stated facing since the Russia-Ukraine war. Prices went up...
AS THE Shanghai Cooperation Organisation prepares to convene its 25th Heads of State Council summit in Tianjin on August 31, 2025, the mood is one of cautious optimism, shaped by geopolitical turbulence, but anchored in a sense of historical inevitability. Under China鈥檚 rotating chairmanship, the SCO has not only survived the headwinds of global disorder but...
A TEACHER from Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology recently said that his high school headmaster had stopped talking to him after his admission into a polytechnic institute in the 1980s. The headmaster started talking to him only after he was admitted into a bachelor鈥檚 engineering programme at DUET...
EDUCATION in Bangladesh has lost its way. Instead of helping young people grow, think and create, it has become a system obsessed with exams, grades and rote memorisation. Students spend their childhoods preparing for tests rather than for life. The result is a generation holding certificates yet lacking the skills, creativity and confidence to thrive...
WHEN the chief adviser to the interim government Muhammad Yunus has presented his seven-point road map for the Rohingya repatriation in Cox鈥檚 Bazar, the stage was set for optimism. In the presence of diplomats and aid officials, Yunus has called for what seemed self-evident: a safe, dignified, voluntary and sustainable return of more than 1.3 million...
THIS is worrying that incidents of sexual violence and rape are increasing. The Bangladesh Women鈥檚 Council reported a rise in gender-based violence in 2024, with the majority of the victims being girl children. There is an alarming surge in child marriage too. In 2024, about 20 cases of child marriage were reported whereas in the first six months of this year, the number is...