THE Bangladesh Publishers and Booksellers’ Association has written to publishing house Adarsha, which is taking part in the 46th International Kolkata Book Fair that began on January 31, asking it
THE report that a University of Dhaka student was tortured by the activists of the Chhatra League makes it evident that neither the university nor law enforcers about sincere about
THIS is deeply worrying that errors in facts, scientific or historical, in school textbooks of the national curriculum have become characteristic of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board. The government
THE minister of law’s assurance for the transfer of the Brahmanbaria district judge, the Women and Children’s Repression (Prevention) Tribunal 1 judge and a nazir, or the court clerk, of
IN A research on the condition and rehabilitation of people with spinal cord injury, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University highlights a worrying trend that the youth suffers the most from
THE finding of the Global Education Monitoring Report 2022, which UNESCO prepared in association with BRAC, that families pay 71 per cent of the total education spending in Bangladesh is
THE death of at least 967 workers at work in 2022 points to a criminal negligence on part of the government and employers to workplace safety and labour rights. A
THE issue of migrant workers’ wage theft in destination countries has remained unattended despite repeated calls from migrant workers and civic groups. Migrant workers and rights activists at a public
AN UNUSUALLY high number of deaths from winter related illness is a clear sign of the government’s unpreparedness. A report of the Health Emergency Operation Centre at the Directorate General of
MISMANAGEMENT and irregularities in medical waste management, as reported in a Transparency International Bangladesh study, is a clear case of governance failure. The anti-corruption watchdog in its study on the