EID comes every time with some concern for the authorities to attend to. It is mostly the safety of people when they leave the capital city for outlying areas before Eid and when they get back to the city after Eid. So many people travelling at a time burdens the transport network and the system, with traffic accidents taking place, causing fatalities and injuries. The burden...
THE delay in resolving the crisis that has engulfed the Dhaka South City Corporation and resulted in the suspension of public services is gravely concerning. Supporters of Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Ishraque Hossain — including members of...
MEDICAL services at the National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital, or the National Eye Hospital that provides all types of eye care, have been stalled since May 28. The situation has been so deplorable that the ministry of health has offered an apology and requested patients to seek treatment in other health facilities. Security people deployed there are reported to...
THE recent surge in violence against women perpetrated by Islamist groups or mobs acting as ‘tawhidi janata’ alongside the government’s failure to adequately respond is gravely concerning. After the July uprising, in which women and girls from diverse backgrounds actively participated and which they often led, it was hoped that women’s democratic aspirations...
AN ACUTE gas crisis has severely affected industries and households in Dhaka and elsewhere. The supply of gas plummeted on May 29 after imported liquefied natural gas unloading had been suspended because of inclement weather. The power sector on May 27 received 941.3mmcfd of gas against the demand for 2420.9mmcfd while the fertiliser sector received...
THE chief adviser to the interim government Muhammad Yunus, who stands his ground for holding the national elections by June 2026, has in Tokyo said that not all political parties want the elections by December and only one party so does. The remark that he has made at the Nikkei Forum 2025 has not named any party, but he has obviously alluded to the...
THE arrest of a retired professor of Jagannath University in a dubious case related to the violence during the July uprising in 2024 raises serious concern as such arrest and cases stand to harm justice and allow perpetrators to escape unpunished...
LIGHT engineering, which could fetch up to $100 billion from export if properly nourished, warrants that the government should provide the sector with policy support, scopes for investment and the needed infrastructural development. It is in this...
ACADEMIC activities in primary and secondary schools are disrupted amidst work abstention by teachers and employees. Assistant teachers of government primary schools and employees of secondary schools, on monthly pay order scheme...
THE interim government and several political parties, especially the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, appear to have embarked on a confrontational path about the timing of the next general elections. While the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and some other...
BANGLADESH has registered a surge in suspicious financial transactions and activities during the tenure of the interim government, installed after the fall of the Awami League regime on August 5, 2024, which suggests that it has not done enough to contain money laundering. The most recent annual report of the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit says that suspicious...
