Editorial

THE Junior School Certificate (JSC) and its equivalent Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) exams will begin on Thursday (November 1). More than 26 lakh students will...

THE 10th parliament ended yesterday without any effective move from titular opposition bench (Jatiya Party) to protect people’s rights or oppose passing any authoritarian law....

Motorcycles using footpaths Footpaths being built for the pedestrians only for their safe and convenient walking from one place to another. But nowadays most of...

Sophie Edwards ;Communities not classrooms must be at the center of education programs to ensure children thrive, the leader of Teach For All has said,...

Catherine Cheney ;While conversations on connecting the unconnected often target technology solutions, the focus at this year’s Social Capital Markets conference was on capital for...

David Loew :The world is 20 cases away from making polio history. So far this year, only 20 people have been diagnosed with polio, contracted...

DU question leakage The fact that the question paper for “Gha” unit at Dhaka University was leaked before the admission test is depressing. We welcome...

Vani S. Kulkarni :On September 24, the government launched the grand government-funded healthcare scheme, the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY). While some see...

Udo Bullmann :Our democracies in Europe are under attack from all sides – and online manipulations through fake news are at the heart of this...

Kelli Rogers :Southeast Asian nations are among the worst offenders when it comes to sending plastic pollution straight into the ocean. With four of the...

Commuters have been suffering immensely as transport workers started a 48-hour countrywide work abstention on Sunday to press home their eight-point demand mainly related to...

Hundreds of youths demanding extension of age limit up to 35 for entering government jobs blocked Shahbagh intersection for a few hours for the last...