DELIVERING his inaugural policy statement to the parliament, Sri Lanka鈥檚 president Anura Kumara Dissanayake dealt mostly with the economy and, in particular, the IMF agreement. The problem that he faces is that the previous government agreed to terms with the International Monetary Fund that did not consider the impact on the people but gave priority...
LAND acts as the primary source of food. More than eight billion people still draw 99.9 per cent of food from land. Out of agriculture, the first human intervention in the nature, emerged communities, which ultimately brought in pollution. Records show that civilisation has spoilt most of the land people lived on. Neolithic revolution caused changes in the...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, setting in across the world bringing about a new order dominated by technology, could well leave its impact, sooner or later, on Bangladesh even if it would opt to stay out of it. Bangladesh should, therefore, align itself towards the shift while there is still time as graduation of society into another industrial revolution will come...
Different political parties on Thursday observed November 7, Sepoy People Mass Revolution Day, demanding restoration of democratic rule in the country and formation of a bicameral parliament.聽
Was the July/August monsoon movement a colour revolution, a people鈥檚 revolution, or simply a regime change? From the outset, there has been a debate among political and...
THE term 鈥榬evolution鈥� has gained significant traction in Bangladesh over the past few months. I have observed that various stakeholders, including media outlets, political activists, student bodies and even academics, have started to characterise the events surrounding the fall of Sheikh Hasina on August 5 as a revolution. Some have referred to this...
Dhaka University vice-chancellor professor Niaz Ahmed Khan announced Tuesday that the DU authorities would establish a 鈥楯uly Revolution Corner鈥� to honour the student-led uprising of July-August 2024...
I鈥橫 ABOUT Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 age, give or take a few months. In my youth, I voted for her father; then in middle age, I voted for her, once, twice until I stopped. My story here may be of interest to...
ONE might be curious: what role is played by the political parties? Two newspaper reports are worth mentioning to comprehend how this quota movement evolved in the...
THE anti-discrimination movement went peacefully with processions and rallies from July 1 to July 13. The reaction of students to the 鈥榬azakars鈥� comment of the prime minister on...
The 鈥楪en Z Revolution鈥� is a unique story. The student鈥檚 initial demand for reforming the quota system for government jobs resonated with the masses because of high unemployment and pent-up discontent. The Hasina...
FOR Bangladesh and the rest of the world, it was an accomplishment no one could have imagined a day ago. Prominent political parties such as the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and...
ACCORDING to Marxian jargon, what happened during those 36 days from July 1 to August 5, 2024, in Bangladesh was not a revolution in the stricter sense of the term. It was not...
Iran鈥檚 Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami warned Thursday of further retaliation against Israel if it attacks Iranian targets, which Israel has vowed to do after Iran鈥檚 missile attack...
Banglalink鈥檚 鈥楳yBL Super App: Revolutionising Healthcare in Rural Bangladesh鈥� campaign has won 鈥楨xcellence in Digital Inclusion Award鈥� at M360 APAC Digital Nations Awards in Seoul, South Korea 鈥� GSMA鈥檚 annual flagship event for the Asia Pacific region, said a press release...
Jagannath University will celebrate its 19th anniversary on October 20 with a focus on the 鈥楯uly Revolution鈥� that toppled the Sheikh Hasina government on August 5...
The Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh on Saturday criticised the speech delivered by Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the...
The health affairs sub-committee of the Student Movement against Discrimination at a press conference on Saturday said that they prepared a list of 1,581 people who were martyred in the...
FOR a couple of months, Bangladesh has been making the media headlines. What is happening in this geographically small but strategically important country of 175 million people has created widespread interest...
A visual archive of the July Revolution in Bangladesh titled 36 July is underway at two separate venues in Germany...
BANGLADESH has entered a critical phase in its history on August 5. The student-mass uprising of July-August is evidence that Bangladeshis will not tolerate fascism. What started off from Dhaka University on July 1 as an innocuous demand for reforms of the quota system for government jobs turned into a massive revolution and ousted 16-year-old Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 despotic Awami League government...
The Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh, a partner of the Ganatantra Mancha, said that it wanted to establish rights of workers and the working class people during rule of the...
Chief adviser professor Muhammad Yunus on Thursday called upon the students to return to their classrooms and campuses as a well-educated and competent generation was required to reap the benefits of the revolution...
THE most significant recent escalation in the ongoing Zionist real estate project, enabled by apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian people, occurred on October 7, 2023, when Hamas fighters broke through Gaza鈥檚 prison fence, carrying out a bloody incursion on Israeli military installations and border towns. Since, the Israel 鈥楧efence鈥� Forces have...
THE term 鈥榬evolution鈥� has evolved significantly over time, while its Bengali counterpart, 鈥榖iplob,鈥� has not experienced the same expansion in meaning. This may be due to the strong influence of the Bolshevik left in Bengal, which has kept 鈥榖iplob鈥� confined to the Russian, Chinese, and Cuban revolutionary models. In contrast, the word 鈥榬evolution鈥� has been used...
The North South University鈥檚 media, communication, and journalism programme and the NSU TV, Radio, and Digital Lab jointly organised a seven-day photo exhibition titled Revolution of Students in Photography under way at the NSU Plaza...
THE student-led anti-quota movement has made the headlines globally, not only for its original demands but also for the broader implications it carried for the entire country. Initially sparked by grievances over the government鈥檚 quota system in public sector jobs, the movement evolved swiftly into a much larger political struggle...
BANGLADESH experienced a political earthquake when prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned following a nationwide protest in August led by the youth, particularly the Gen-Z generation. The 鈥楪en-Z Revolution鈥� shares striking similarities with the Arab Spring, underscoring the powerful impact of youth-driven movements in bringing about significant radical change in Bangladesh...
The United Nations was sending a fact-finding team next week to probe atrocities committed during the student revolution in July and early this month, said...
The UN human rights chief, Volker T眉rk, has made a phone call to Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus and said a UN-led investigation will be launched very soon to probe the killing of the protesters during the 鈥楽tudent Revolution鈥�...