New Age

People’s right v state policy

Kaniz Fatema | Updated at 12:25am on December 16, 2020

SOVEREIGNTY is not only a matter to celebrate but also a condition that gives power to the government to determine the fate of each and every entity within its sovereign territory. And here lies the risk of...
Aman rice and seed sovereignty

Farida Akhter | Updated at 12:21am on December 16, 2020

THIS year, aman rice suffered severe loss due to a series of floods and untimely rain. At the household level, the farmers will have shortage of rice for consumption and selling, while at the national level people...
As Mujib watches helplessly

Shahidul Alam | Updated at 12:18am on December 16, 2020

I entered the giant graveyard. It was quiet except for my own footsteps but, in my head, I could hear the screams. Rows of blackened sewing machines, still in orderly lines, reinforced the sense...
Averting K-shaped recovery

Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir | Updated at 12:13am on December 16, 2020

AT A time when the country is about to celebrate its golden jubilee of independence, the COVID-19 pandemic is hitting people’s lives and livelihoods with great uncertainty. The question is what kind of recovery is needed...
The precarity of pre-existing conditions

Elora Halim Chowdhury | Updated at 12:50am on October 15, 2020

THE World Health Organisation officially declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, which, in the opinion of many health and policy professionals, was already late in the game. Reports that China lacked transparency...
Challenges of life and livelihood

Samina Luthfa | Updated at 12:14am on October 15, 2020

THE COVID-19 pandemic has affected and will be affecting the world including both developing and developed countries. Countries of the world have responded differently to this pandemic since the impact has been...
Pandemic, democracy and press freedom

Anis Chowdhury | Updated at 12:10am on October 15, 2020

THE 17th founding anniversary of the outspoken national daily, New Age, comes at a time when, according to Reporters Without Borders, journalism is ‘entering a decisive decade…exacerbated by...
Which recovery path may we pursue?

Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir | Updated at 12:02am on October 15, 2020

THE COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges throwing the economy off-guard at a time when the country is stepping onto its 50th year of independence. There has evidently been a reversal of the...