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Rohingya crisis: Waning concern, dwindling funds

With the international concern over the influx of Rohingya into Bangladesh and the thrust on their early repatriation to Myanmar ebbing, the volume of external humanitarian assistance necessary to support the population uprooted from their homeland has also been on the decline. A conference of the donors held on Thursday...

Government should enforce compliance with DAP

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked the local government, rural development and cooperatives ministry to work out a master plan for every upazila for protecting cultivable land and checking the unplanned construction of buildings, roads and houses on croplands.At a meeting in the secretariat, she said the country needs to design...

Elusive autumn of Jibanananda

Normal cycle of Bangladesh seasons would have seen the Bangla month of 'Kartik' now well in place across the country. This has not been happening for nearly two decades. Kartik is one of the two autumns of the six Bangla seasons. Theoretically, one arrives after monsoon, the other before winter....

Ready for the second wave?

After the once-in-a-century pandemic has shattered life and livelihoods almost everywhere, we are now being told that another wave of higher cases of infection of Covid-19 is coming in the winter. That, according to experts, could be twice as terrible as the present one. Hit in a variety of ways,...

Tests or HSC results for varsity admission?

Tens of thousands of admission-seekers appear in the test for enrolment in the universities after their higher secondary degree and the ones who come out successful based on test marks and earlier performance, get chance. However, this year, things have become difficult since the education ministry has decided to show...

Fatalities on road

A major cause of the road accidents in Bangladesh is a senseless competition among drivers to overtake each other on busy roads. We saw procession of deaths in road crashes in recent years. As a reaction to such an unbearable situation, students and juveniles took to the streets demanding safe...

Ensuring communal harmony

Bangladesh has always been an example of peaceful coexistence between different religious groups and people of this part of the world join festivals of each other with enthusiasm. Unfortunately, there are attempts to pollute that atmosphere as an unidentified group of people has vandalised idols. Authorities and people need to...