The loan under the government-to-government negotiation from China and India is increasingly influenced by geopolitics, challenging Bangladesh to successfully implement its infrastructure projects...
A TASK force that the government instituted in September 2024 submitted its report, Re-strategising the Economy and Mobilising Resources for Equitable and Sustainable Development, on January 30. The task force, composed of 12 members, in the sixth chapter of the report titled 鈥楻eaping the Benefits of Demographic Dividends: Investment in...
A recently published task force report on re-strategising the economy recommended that the government should develop and implement a single university admission test for all public and private universities in the country...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, was admitted to The London Clinic in the United Kingdom on Wednesday for advanced treatment.
THE important promises of the NPP government to the people includes addressing the problem of corruption and waste. This was the centrepiece of the Aragalaya protests that brought down the government in 2022. The government made many other promises too when it was in the opposition. But unlike in the case of these other promises...
Veteran labour leader and president of Bangladesh Trade Union Centre Shahidullah Chowdhury died on Friday noon in his residence in Dhaka.
South Korean investigators abandoned their attempt to arrest impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol at his residence on Friday over a failed martial law bid, citing safety concerns after a standoff with his security team.
Concerns are growing in the UK as tech billionaire Elon Musk takes an increasingly close interest in Britain鈥檚 political scene, appearing to cosy up to hard-right firebrand lawmaker Nigel Farage...
No reason was given in the Burkina Faso鈥檚 ruling military leader's decree for the dismissal of Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela, who was named as premier in October 2022 after the coup that brought Captain Ibrahim Traore to power...
France鈥檚 lower house of parliament Wednesday started debating two no-confidence motions in a session widely expected to topple the minority government of prime minister Michel Barnier in a historic vote...
A special committee consisting of eminent personalities has begun its work to examine the nature and form of political activities on the Dhaka University campus...
THE reality is harsh, and the manipulation is not just subtle 鈥� it is deliberate, ingrained in the very fabric of power itself. As I read through the analysis presented by Commodore Abdur Razzak in 抖阴精品 and Sharbari Z Ahmed in Netra.news, the underlying dynamics that shape the political landscape of both Bangladesh and the wider world become...
THE Republican red colour has inundated the entire USA like the Antediluvian flooding. If you look at the map, it appears that painters put red paint all over except for some streaks of blue representing...
AFTER the July uprising, one of the topics stirring significant debate is whether student politics should exist on campus and, if so, what its nature should be. It appears that the interim government...
Left-leaning student organisations at Jahangirnagar University on Tuesday protested at the politics of Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, on the university campus...
INDIA is now grappling with the delicate task of finding a sanctuary for the ousted Sheikh Hasina, who had long been a steadfast and trusted ally in South Asia. The decision is aimed at preventing further deterioration in its already strained relations with Bangladesh. Meanwhile, the new interim government, led by Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus...
GENDER鈥� is always a thorny topic at times of mass uprising. Historically, leaders of countless mass uprisings around the world decided to put away the gender question for dealing with later. The 鈥榤ass鈥� had been typically framed as a body that does not have any gender in the common imagination, only to eventually reveal...
ADAPTATION finance stands at the heart of one of the gravest challenges confronting the global community 鈥� how to shield vulnerable nations from the worsening impacts of climate change. Yet, the current global financial framework remains inadequate, perpetuating a cycle of debt and dependence for countries already grappling with severe...
The authorities of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology have banned student politics on its campus again...
The Jagannath University vice-chancellor, Professor Md Rezaul Karim, on Wednesday said that student politics on the campus would not be abolished but the culture would be changed...
The students of Jahangirnagar University held protests at the university on Friday demanding a ban on party politics on the campus.
Political leaders and cultural activists at a roundtable in Dhaka on Friday said that cultural activists must work for the improvement of the country鈥檚 politics for bringing positive change.
Former and present student leaders from different political organisations have rejected the Dhaka University authorities鈥� decision to ban all political activities on students, teachers and...
Dhaka University on Thursday banned political activities of the university鈥檚 students, teachers, officers and employees on the campus, following demand of the students.
WHEN I was in sixth grade, around twelve years old, I used to attend math tuition with a local teacher. It never bothered me or anyone in my family that I was a young Muslim girl walking more than a mile alone through a predominantly Hindu area to study with a Hindu teacher...
AS THE world grapples with the intensifying effects of climate change, countries like Bangladesh stand at the forefront of both vulnerability and leadership in the global environmental struggle. Bangladesh, while contributing only 0.56 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, is disproportionately affected by climate-induced disasters such as...
Students of Jahangirnagar University demonstrated on the campus on Monday, demanding a ban on the politics of teachers, students, officers, and employees of the university on the campus.
BOTH at theoretical and empirical levels, ample literature on food security is in evidence worldwide. Particularly in Bangladesh, the food security issue buzzes around academic and research corners most frequently. Policymakers and politicians seemingly feel perturbed at the perilous food insecurity in the country despite tonnes of reports and recommendations put forth to face food insecurity...
The Centre for Non Party Politics in a statement on Saturday made much of the initiative taken by Professor Muhammad Yunus-led interim government in rebuilding the country as a non-sectarian liberal welfare state...
