Wasim Bin Habib

Fate of 62 ASPs: Who’s calling the shots?

The stage was all set. The Bangladesh Police Academy at Sardah was decked up for the year’s highlight. Another batch of assistant superintendents was about to pass out. Many of the guests and dignitaries had already arrived in Rajshahi the evening before. They would watch 62 ASPs — all BCS recruits — march in their passing-out parade.

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Historical education budget promises versus reality

Spending on education falls short of expectations

For example, when the Dakar Declaration came in 2000, the country said it would spend 6 percent of GDP on education. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation recommends earmarking four to six percent of the GDP for the sector.

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Healthcare sector's share in total expenditure

Falling healthcare budget forces people to spend more out of pocket

For instance, the outlay for the health sector was Tk 25,028 crore in 2021-22, representing 4.8 percent of the budget of Tk 518,188 crore. It was five percent in the previous fiscal year when the government spent Tk 21,647 crore under a Tk 460,160 crore budget.

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Are schools open? Simple issue unnecessarily complicated

Are the secondary schools and colleges open today? It is very likely that no one can answer this seemingly simple question with certainty.

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Reverse migration rises twentyfold in five years

A few months after his honours examinations at a college in Satkhira in 2018, Quazi Monjurul travelled to Dhaka looking for a job.

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Funding for Gabtoli-Dasherkandi metro line confirmed

The prospect of having another major metro rail route in Dhaka looks bright as financing for the construction of the southern route of Mass Rapid Transit Line-5 has been confirmed.

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Who is the opposition party in Bangladesh?

Who will sit on opposition benches?

With the unofficial results of the 12th national polls out, the question now is what will the opposition in parliament look like.

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Bangladesh general elections on 7 January 2024: Ballot boxes were dispatched yesterday to different polling centres from Azimpur Government Girls’ School and College in Dhaka.

Vote today, the outcome long known

As the nation goes to polls today for a third straight time under Sheikh Hasina-led government, the outcome is already a foregone conclusion. The 12th parliamentary election will go down in history as a race between Awami League candidates and Awami League “independents”.

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November 14, 2021

Access to diabetes care in Bangladesh

Alamgir Hossain felt persistently exhausted for the past few months as the man in his early forties easily became tired even when doing light work at his grocery shop in Kaliganj upazila of Satkhira.

October 25, 2021

Rohingya Camps: It’s all sinister after sundown

To Aziz Khan, night time is still the scariest.

October 2, 2021

Budget boosted for jab campaign

The government will spend an estimated Tk 17,000 crore this fiscal year to procure Covid-19 vaccines as it has secured access to around 24 crore doses from multiple sources.

September 29, 2021

Harnessing the power of digital health to improve heart care

Monir Hossain found himself in a precarious situation as soon as Covid-19 hit the country in March last year. The 70-year-old businessman from Faridpur has been suffering from heart disease for the past five years and as such, regularly visits Dhaka for check-ups.

September 29, 2021

Covid-19 kept cardiac patients at bay

Abdul Hakim suddenly felt severe chest pain late at night sometime in August last year.

August 15, 2021

A dawn darker than night

The rumble of truck engines of the 2nd Field Regiment disturbed the evening quietness at Dhaka cantonment. Loaded with 105mm cannons, the heavy-duty trucks began heading from the southern end of the cantonment to the under-construction airport on the capital’s edge.

July 30, 2021