A report in this daily mentions that the University Grants Commission (UGC) chairman has criticised the authorities of public universities who continue to resist the idea of holding uniform admission tests when enrolling new students.

No one among the Bangladesh Under-19 team scored a fifty or took a number of wickets in the Under-19 World Cup final on Sunday, a day that will be etched in the nation’s sporting history—the first time that Bangladeshis could call themselves world champions.

"Shocking” is the word that keeps being tied to the fire safety situation in Bangladesh, and now a year-end report, compiled by Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence, shows just how shocking the situation was in 2019.

While time extension and cost escalation of the various mega projects that are underway in the country has become a common phenomenon nowadays, it is a refreshing experience to learn that a mega project, undertaken by the Roads and Highways Department (RHD), has been completed on time.

Narcotics kill slowly but surely and, if unchecked, can destroy entire generations. If the harmful drugs and narcotics are allowed to pervade the market and their flagrant use is not prevented, the nation is bound to suffer irreparably, a consequence that not all of us are able to foresee.

We are shocked to learn about the complete apathy of the two government hospitals in Narayanganj in treating their medical waste.

There is no question that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has taught both the BNP chief Khaleda Zia and her party some big lessons – lessons of making political mistakes, of overestimating one’s mass support, of depending too much on sycophants, of ignoring history and thinking that it can be custom made just by possessing political power, of never really trying to understand the underlying values of our Liberation War, of arrogance, of misuse of political power.

It is unfortunate that even after decades of efforts from the government and non-government organisations to combat tuberculosis (TB) in Bangladesh, a large number of TB patients still remain undiagnosed, mostly due to a lack of awareness among the patients as well as people in general.

The once-sparkling water of the Buriganga is now a dark, smelly pit of liquid waste. Dark flows the Turag too, which is lined with factories that dump their waste, including plastic materials, polythene and dyes into its water.

It is a disturbing fact that due to tax evasion by foreigners working in Bangladesh, our government is being deprived of USD 1.35 billion in revenue every year.

We are alarmed by the lack of action to check and investigate the spate of attacks on journalists covering the elections in Dhaka city corporations allegedly by individuals linked to the ruling party.

We are disappointed by the mishap that has occurred during the ongoing Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent exams, where wrong question papers were distributed among students in four centres in Barishal, Nilphamari, Jashore and Feni.

It was no secret that the Road Transport Act 2018 was not well-received by the operators of the transport sector, i.e. the owners and the workers.

We live in a world that would be inconceivable without translation. We live in a time when translation does more than guide us into texts from other cultures and territories;

There is little doubt that the Bangladesh Bank (BB) reserve heist four years ago has been the biggest cybercrime in Bangladesh’s financial sector, one that is shrouded in mystery, as till now we do not know who the actors involved were.

In the run-up to the Dhaka city corporation polls, candidates were criticised for their indiscriminate use of laminated posters that seemed to cover every inch of this city, especially in the final two weeks before the February 1 election.

We are outraged at the recent rise of border killings along the India-Bangladesh border despite India’s repeated promises of bringing down the number of such deaths to zero.

Low voter turnout happens in many places of the world. But never so in Bangladesh, till lately. Ours always used to be one of high to very high voter turnout.

Should people suffer because of someone’s unlawful act, which has gone unnoticed by the authorities? The case in point is the high-handed attitude of a person who deems it perfectly permissible to withdraw and separate water from a common source, a flowing canal meant for the daily use of ordinary people living along the canal.

The Dhaka city corporation elections held yesterday only reiterated what is increasingly becoming a disturbing trend in elections in the country—low voter turnout.