A DECLINE in the popular folk theatre called jatra, the number of artistes involved in it and the number of troupes that they set up for the performance, as New Age reported on Monday, is concerning in that it seems to be sending…

STALKERS continue to prowl different parts of the country, with the latest victim of the heinous crime being a schoolgirl in Madaripur…

THE move for placing the 281 government colleges, for bachelor’s and master’s courses, back under public universities has been stuck for about two years since the prime minister asked the education ministry in August 2014 to arm up public…

The photograph that New Age published on its back page on Saturday, which highlights electric and internet cables hanging from a tilted electric pole on Syed Nazrul Islam Sarani in Dhaka, yet again betrays the indifference of relevant…

STRUCTURES, that too unauthorised, coming to replace or eclipse heritage landmarks of the capital, as New Age reported on Saturday, because of inaction of city development authorities is deplorable…

THAT seasonal and small rawhide traders, primary sellers who sell their collection to merchants for supply to tanneries, reportedly incurred huge losses from trading in rawhide of sacrificial animals during Eid-ul-Azha is unfortunate…

NO REGULAR inspection of factories which entails a substantial level of hazard but for the units in the apparel sector is a deplorable fact to reckon with. This is more so as such a situation brings up the lack of enforcement of the Factories Act…

RECKLESS driving appears to have reached its peak during Eid-ul-Azha. At least 36 people died and 90 others were injured in road accidents, as New Age reported on Friday, in the past four days across the country, mostly because of reckless driving…

INTERNATIONAL gateway operators responsible for handling international telephone calls to and from Bangladesh continue to defy government rules and orders…

WHATEVER success that the city corporations of Dhaka made in the collection of animal wastes during Eid-ul-Azha has come to be overshadowed by failures of relevant authorities on another front…

YET another devastating factory fire killed at least 24 people in Gazipur on Satu rday. The boiler of the packaging factory, as New Age reported on Sunday, exploded in the morning, causing the collapse of a side of the building and walls of three bordering buildings and a fire…

The Private University Act 2010 appears to have been more honoured in the breach in that 29 of the 94 private universities have none of the three top-ranking academic and administrative officials — the vice-chancellor, the pro-vice-chancellor and the treasurer…

AN APPARENT Indian reluctance at implementing a decision made at a meeting between the directors general of border forces of Bangladesh and India in Dhaka on May 16 on joint investigations of border killing is unfortunate…

A SHARP increase in prices of spices in city markets, as demands for the items increased with with Eid-ul-Azha nearing, is disconcerting especially in that this is not a one-off incident…

THE arrest of five suspected of being members of a fake currency racket in Dhaka Wednesday night is welcome. The Rapid Action Battalion, as New Age reported on Friday, also seized equipment used to make counterfeit currency notes…

THE perennial inundation of a vast expanse of Jessore — severely in Abhaynagar, Manirampur, Keshabpur and some parts of the district headquarters — in the absence of an effective method to flush out water, compounded…

THE Housing and Building Research Institute came into being in 1975 for research and innovation on construction technologies and materials. Regrettably, however, as New Age reported on Thursday, it is yet to make any significant contribution to the construction industry…

ABOUT two-thirds of urban slum dwellers, about 2.2 million living in poverty, having no access to learning and, thus, remaining illiterate is a matter of grave concern. Such a figure indicates that a large number of citizens…

THE water resources minister’s statement that Bangladesh needs an early settlement of the Teesta water sharing issue with India is welcome…

ABOUT 3.3 million cows and buffaloes, a third of the cattle that are on demand for sacrifice at Eid-ul-Azha, having been fattened up by farmers, according to an estimate by livestock officials, comes nothing but shocking…