Former Bangladesh Civil Service cadres, except those belonging to the administration cadre, on Saturday urged the authorities to resolve the crisis regarding the proposed Dhaka Central University on the basis of the recommendations of education experts and the opinions of stakeholders...
BANGLADESH鈥橲 2025 Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examination results have delivered a quiet but seismic shock to the country鈥檚 higher education system. Only about 58.8 per cent of students passed this year, down sharply from 77.8 per cent in 2024 and 78.6 per cent in 2023...
Community Initiative Society and Asia Pacific Alliance for Disaster Management jointly organised an International Symposium on 鈥楬eating Planet, Conflict, and Crisis Management: Building Resilience and International Cooperation in a Changing World鈥� in Dhaka city on Tuesday...
New Yorkers run on coffee. From high-end experimental boutique cafes to the humble sidewalk cart, millions of cups of java are sold every day...
The clock ticked down Wednesday for France鈥檚 president Emmanuel Macron to find an exit from his worst domestic crisis, after his first prime minister and one-time ally urged him to resign...
France鈥檚 new prime minister resigned on Monday after less than a month in office, sinking the country further into a political crisis and piling pressure on president Emmanuel Macron to find a way out of the deadlock...
Commissioner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has warned that the plight of the Rohingyas will not end without bold action inside Myanmar, saying that the solution to the protracted crisis lies in Myanmar...
The high-level conference on the Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar, convened on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week, once again brings into attention a crisis that the world has allowed to aggravate for far too long. More than 1.3 million Rohingyas remain stranded in Bangladesh, with little hope for repatriation...
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus once again called upon the international community to exert pressure on Myanmar and the Arakan Army to immediately stop persecution of the Rohingyas...
DHAKA is a city of life for millions, its streets serving as vital arteries through which people and vehicles flow from morning until night. And beneath this restless movement lies a silent danger that has become an everyday threat: open manholes. What should be innocuous components of the city鈥檚 drainage and utility systems have instead turned into lethal traps. Their...
China is navigating ways as to how the protracted Rohingya crisis could be resolved ensuring peace in conflict-ridden Myanmar through negotiations with the parties concerned...
Nepal鈥檚 president said Thursday he聽was seeking an end to the crisis that has engulfed the Himalayan nation since deadly protests this week ousted the prime minister and left parliament in flames...
France鈥檚 new prime minister Sebastien Lecornu promised a 鈥榩rofound break鈥� with the past on Wednesday as he faced the thorny task of trying to build a government with enough parliamentary support to avoid an early demise...
Exhaustion, irregular periods, sudden weight gain and persistent acne 鈥� these signs are often dismissed as 鈥榡ust part of life.鈥� For a female student balancing studies and part-time work, or a mother managing a household from dawn to dusk, enduring discomfort becomes routine. Yet what if these symptoms refuse to subside? What if they are not simply stress or fatigue?...
EIGHT years after the mass flight from Myanmar, roughly a million Rohingya remain in Bangladesh, concentrated in 33 hyper-dense camps in Cox鈥檚 Bazar, with additional families relocated to the government-built settlement on Bhasan Char. The scale and duration of displacement, coupled with dwindling aid, have shifted the situation from a temporary...
ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights, a platform of current and former Southeast Asian lawmakers, on Wednesday proposed an international conference involving Bangladesh, China, and ASEAN countries to resolve the Rohingya crisis...
The Rohingya crisis has worsened with more displaced people from the conflict-ridden Rakhine State of Myanmar entering Bangladesh while not a single person of them has returned to their homeland over the past eight years of the large-scale exodus since August 25, 2017.
The interim government is frequently raising allowances and incentives for the public officials despite a fund crisis and high inflation prevailing in the country...
Clashes between rival groups of protesters in Serbia left dozens injured overnight, police said Thursday, as months of anti-government demonstrations boiled over into street violence for a second night...
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...
Aid groups warned of surging numbers of malnourished children in war-ravaged Gaza as a trio of European powers prepared to hold an 鈥榚mergency call鈥� Friday on the deepening humanitarian crisis.
IN A quiet courtroom in the Hague, history stirred. A legal ripple, as gentle as a sigh from the Pacific, reached the shorelines of global governance. The International Court of Justice declared, in an advisory fashion though, that one country may, indeed, sue another for climate change. The words hung heavy in the air, stirring both celebrations and scepticism. Rightly so...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday said that an early national election and establishing a political government were the only ways to overcome the ongoing unrest...
Multiple problems hit the publicly-owned 525MW coal-based Barapukuria Thermal Power Plant, accounting for almost half of the installed power generation capacity to meet the electricity demand in Rangpur zone, with its production dropping below 50 MW on Tuesday...
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...
The artificial intelligence industry is scrambling to reduce its massive energy consumption through better cooling systems, more efficient computer chips, and smarter programming 鈥� all while AI usage explodes worldwide...
IN THE long corridors of Bangladesh鈥檚 educational institutions 鈥� be it a public school in Barishal, a madrasa in Sylhet, or an elite English-medium school in Dhaka 鈥� there鈥檚 a silence louder than the morning assembly bell. It鈥檚 the silence of boys not crying, not speaking, not asking for help. The silence of boys being boys鈥攕toic, invulnerable, 鈥榮trong.鈥� And buried...
DEATH by drowning remains a public concern with little to no effective intervention on part of the government to prevent such disaster. Three students of the University of Chittagong drowned in the sea in Cox鈥檚 Bazar on July 8, with two having so far been recovered dead. In June, during Eid holidays, when about 250,000 people visited the district, at least six people died...
THE Legal Aid Act 2025, which mandates mediation before filing certain types of cases, is a significant reform aimed at alleviating the severe backlog in the justice delivery system. The government鈥檚 rationale is to promote speedy resolution, reduce costs and enhance the effectiveness of legal aid services, citing that a high percentage of disputes can be resolved...
