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Failure to hold students’ union polls, keep off partisan line
| Updated at 01:05am on April 23, 2017
THE control of the Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, in the allotment of rooms in halls of residence for males...
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Chittagong city mired in water stagnation again
| Updated at 01:05am on April 23, 2017
DOWNPOUR combined with high tide sent low-lying areas of Chittagong city under water. Photographs published in New Age on Saturday shows that filthy water overflowing...
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A welcome coronary stent regulation move
| Updated at 12:05am on April 22, 2017
Vested quarters, particularly a group of cardiologists, stent suppliers and drug manufacturers, have been making profit out of cardiac patients’ sufferings and vulnerability for decades...
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An illogical demand of Hazaribagh tanners
| Updated at 12:05am on April 22, 2017
THE demand of the tanners for the reopening of the tanneries at Hazaribagh if utility services cannot be put in place at the Leather Industrial...
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Boiler inspection should be routinely done
| Updated at 01:05am on April 21, 2017
THE death of two labourers in a boiler explosion at a rice mill in Dinajpur on Wednesday, as New Age on reported Thursday, brings to...
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Enough of govt bowing down to transport operators
| Updated at 01:05am on April 21, 2017
THE government appears to have bowed down to transport owners by suspending for a fortnight the drive, which ran for four days, against city transport...
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Santali writing system debate must be ended
| Updated at 01:05am on April 20, 2017
THE parliamentary standing committee on the primary and mass education ministry asking the government to set up a committee to end the debate whether Bangla...
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Govt must make BRTC service strong enough
| Updated at 01:05am on April 20, 2017
OBSTRUCTION from private bus operators impeding the full coverage of the capital city by the state-run Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation bus service, as New Age...
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Plight of women migrant workers continues
| Updated at 01:05am on April 19, 2017
IN THE past couple of years, Bangladesh has seen a rise in the number of female migrant workers but while the fruits of their hard...
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Land of ethnic minorities must be protected
| Updated at 01:05am on April 19, 2017
THE number of Rakhines, who came to Bangladesh from Burma, now Myanmar, by boat in the last quarter of the 18th century to gradually start...