ACADEMIC activities continue to remain stalled at the Khulna University of Engineering and Technology after the students assaulted their teachers in February. An absence of the vice-chancellor has only added to the academic stalemate, putting teachers, general students and their guardians in trouble. This appears so as academic activities had been stalled for more than...
THE legacy of filing cases against hundreds of unnamed people, as has been by successive governments, including the authoritarian Awami League government, regrettably persists. After the Awami League regime was toppled in an uprising, it was expected that the abuse of legal devices would end. But the legacy, unfortunately, continues apace. In the recent examples, the...
THOUSANDS of people living in the Muhuri basin in Feni recovering from socio-economic losses of the flash flood earlier in July are now faced with similar uncertainty again as the transboundary river swelled by 11 feet in three hours with no warning on June 20. It rained moderately to heavily on the catchment area spreading between India鈥檚 Tripura and Bangladesh...
AN INCREASE in dengue incidence, both in and outside Dhaka, raises grave concern, calling for early and effective intervention. At least four died of dengue while at least 319 others were admitted to hospital on July 22, Directorate General of Health Services data show. With this, at least 27 died in the first 22 days of July, the highest monthly death toll so far this year. In total...
THE Bangladesh women鈥檚 U-20 football team鈥檚 emphatic 4-0 win over Nepal in the title-deciding match at the Bashundhara Kings Arena in Dhaka on July 21 to retain their SAFF Under-20 Women鈥檚 Championship crown is a feat worth celebrating. Bangladesh had earlier secured their maiden SAFF U-20 title in the tournament鈥檚 inaugural edition in 2023. While Bangladesh...
NEW Age deeply mourns the unimaginable loss of lives from the Bangladesh Air Force jet crashing into Milestone School and College campus in Uttara and stands in solidarity with the bereaved student, teachers, parents and larger community in grief. An air force training aircraft, the FT-7 BGI, crashed into the campus immediately after take-off in early afternoon on July...
THE attacks on the National Citizen Party鈥檚 rally in Gopalganj by alleged Awami League activists are condemnable; equally troubling is the harassment of ordinary citizens. Since the attack on July 16, the government has imposed a curfew in the district, filed eight cases accusing about 8,400 unnamed individuals, and arrested at least 321 people. Among the arrested are...
THE delay in disbursing grants and allowances to those wounded and to the families of those martyred during the July uprising is deeply disappointing. The interim government 鈥� formed after the student-led mass movement toppled the authoritarian Awami League government in August 2024 鈥� repeatedly pledged that support and rehabilitation for the victims would be...
IT IS unacceptable that the authorities have yet to adequately respond to the issues that have disrupted the academic environment for the past year. A breakdown in the relationship between teachers and students, a series of protest movements by both groups, and the absence of functioning governing bodies or managing committees in many educational institutions...
WHILE the youth leaders of the victorious July uprising against the autocratic regime of Awami League, a year ago, announced that the spirit of their struggle was to establish a democratic polity and, that too, in the light of Bangladesh鈥檚 historic promise to establish equality, human dignity and social justice, the Jamaat-e-Islami and its political allies at a huge gathering on July...
DILAPIDATED roads and water stagnation are recurring woes for residents of Dhaka during the monsoon. A photograph published in 抖阴精品 on July 19 showed covered vans and rickshaws paddling through dilapidated and muddy roads in the North Jurain area. In the past few days, similar situations of water stagnation were reported from other parts of Dhaka...
THE deplorable condition of Dhaka鈥檚 canals and water bodies can hardly be overstated. Nearly all the canals in and around the capital have either deteriorated significantly or are heading towards complete extinction because of unregulated waste disposal and persistent encroachment. A waste-choked Dholaipar Canal in Jatrabari, as a photograph that 抖阴精品 published on...
THE July 17 custodial death of a 35-year-old Bawm man suspected of being member of the Kuki-Chin National Army, marks a troubling addition to an already distressing pattern. Van Lal Rual Bawm, held in the Chattogram central jail since May 2024...
SUCCESSIVE governments have failed to bring some order to the road regime plagued with corruption and irregularities, largely because of the undue sway that transport owners and workers鈥� associations wield over the government. The interim...
The plight of people living in remote char areas of Kurigram, forced to pay electric bills for power that they never receive, exemplifies the deplorable negligence that the marginalised communities face. More than 300 families in chars at Ulipur...