New Age

Accountability in local governance

| Updated at 12:00am on January 20, 2020

BANGLADESH is a unitary republic with the constitutional provision for local government bodies to provide all amenities that people need. For instance, Article 59 of the constitution of Bangladesh stipulates that the...
Can European migrant crisis be resolved?

Vladimir Odintsov | Updated at 12:00am on January 20, 2020

SINCE 2015, the flow of refugees escaping unending wars in the Middle East and Africa, which the United States and European nations are engaged in, into Europe has continued. The situation has transformed into...
Indian students stand against the far right

Vijay Prashad | Updated at 12:00am on January 20, 2020

WITH her head bandaged and her arm in a sling, university student Aishe Ghosh went before the cameras to say that the students of the university she attends in New Delhi would move ‘not an inch back.’ The students...
Fall of a Greek neo-Nazi party

| Updated at 12:00am on January 20, 2020

GOLDEN Dawn began as an ideological movement that managed throughout the years to evolve into a political movement and a political party, which successfully entered the national parliament and emerged as the...
The gas cylinder bombs that tick unattended

| Updated at 12:00am on January 19, 2020

THE use of gas cylinders for compressed natural and liquefied petroleum gas, which gained ground in households and vehicles around 2000 a few years after...
Railway services decline to chagrin of passengers

| Updated at 12:00am on January 19, 2020

RAILWAY services and customer care are reported to be declining. The condition of stations in the Dhaka–Narayanganj section speak of the deplorable situation. The photographs...
Education: expanding purpose

by Graham Peebles | Updated at 12:00am on January 19, 2020

As the world stumbles from one crisis to another it is increasingly apparent that existing systems and institutions are incapable of responding to the challenges...
Secularism of common aspirations

by Saeed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on January 19, 2020

‘Majrooh uthi hai mauje sabaAasaar liye toofanon keHar qatra-e-shabnam ban jaayeEk mauj-e-rawan, kuchh door naheen’(The morning breeze is deceptive; it is actually a storm in...