The festival — a joint initiative of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU), the Mohanagar Natya Sangsad, the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and the Literary and Cultural Centre — runs from Thursday through Saturday and is timed to coincide with Victory Day commemorations.

Women’s indecision signals both caution and opportunity.

Voters stood in long queues in blazing September heat yesterday, eager to cast what was, for most, the first ballot of their lives.

Brimming with excitement and hope, thousands of students cast their votes in the Ducsu and hall union elections yesterday, as renewed democratic spirit and festive energy swept through the Dhaka University campus.

Mushtuq Husain, who was elected Ducsu general secretary in 1989, expects the rise of a new generation of politics in Bangladesh in the wake of this year’s central student union polls in Dhaka University.