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Badiuzzaman Bay
The writer is a member of the editorial team at The Daily Star.
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The missing catalyst for road safety
Of all the dysfunctions that plague life in Bangladesh today, none is perhaps more pernicious than the transport sector. Just consider the fact that an average of 20 lives is lost to road accidents every day. -
Anti-immigrant rhetoric and its impact on Bangladesh
The 2019 Indian general election, which will have its third round of polling today, is proving to be as challenging as predicted. -
'Job or no job, we'll keep fighting for the students'
We launched the quota movement on February 17. It lasted for nearly eight months, until October 4 when the public administration ministry issued a circular officially scrapping the quota system. -
'We're scraping the bottom of the barrel for school teachers'
The Ministry of Primary and Mass Education has recently decided to discontinue exams at grades 1-3, which means students of those classes will no longer have to sit for formal exams. How do you see this development? -
Death of the Ducsu Dream?
The March 11 election to Ducsu, or Dhaka University Central Students' Union, marks a moment in the history of student politics that is