Over 2.7 lakh deaths linked to air pollution in 2023
Over 271,000 people in Bangladesh died from air pollution-related causes in 2023, according to a new global report.
22 October 2025, 00:00 AM
To the girl raising her father
It still feels like yesterday.
It was a March evening in 2017. I stood outside the labour room -- anxious, restless, and counting the seconds.
10 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Opinion / When governance fails, people pay the price
Month after month, similar figures emerge, followed by assurances that things will change. Yet, the headlines barely differ.
8 October 2025, 05:00 AM
Architects of tomorrow overlooked today
They carry the nation’s most vital responsibility: shaping young minds and laying the foundation for future generations.
4 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Eastern coast sinking faster as sea level rises
Bangladesh’s eastern coast, a key zone for development activities, is sinking faster than the central and western coasts amid rising sea levels, posing threats to infrastructure, vast swathes of farmland and the livelihoods of millions of people, warns a new study.
3 October 2025, 18:25 PM
Dengue deaths: Families left behind to pick up the pieces
As of yesterday, 188 people had died and 44,693, had been hospitalised.
26 September 2025, 18:29 PM
New condition for $5.5B loan: IMF limits Bangladesh’s foreign loan intake
The global lender introduced a new condition for the next instalment of its $5.5 billion loan package
26 September 2025, 18:24 PM
Total literacy elusive after Tk 4,000cr spent
Nearly one in five Bangladeshis aged seven and above remains illiterate, despite Tk 4,000 crore being spent on literacy programmes over the past 34 years.
8 September 2025, 18:09 PM
Denial of Treatment: Hospitals defy govt warnings
For 50-year-old Md Mostafa and his wife, last weekend was nothing short of a nightmare. He shuttled from one hospital to another in the capital with his ailing wife Sathi Khanam, a kidney patient, only to be turned away.
23 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Containment Zones: Incoordination behind fiasco
Over three weeks ago, the government had planned to enforce containment zones in the capital and three other major cities amid a spike in Covid-19 infections and deaths that came after the nationwide shutdown was lifted.
22 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Expert Recommendations: Gone mostly unheeded
As Covid-19 cases kept going up in mid-April, the government formed a national technical advisory committee to find ways to prevent the spread of the deadly virus in the country.
18 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Confusion reigns supreme
There was confusion all around.
As the news of the government preparing a list of virus hotspots to be categorised as red zones spread, the city residents got puzzled and panicked.
15 June 2020, 18:00 PM
One rung up on the grim ladder
With numbers of reported new cases and deaths growing almost every day, Bangladesh has overtaken China in terms of confirmed coronavirus cases.
13 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Not enough when it’s a pandemic
“Good decisions come from experience, but experience comes from making bad decisions.”
11 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Not so good news for the jobless
Ever since Belayat Ahmed completed his graduation two years ago from a college under the National University, he applied to different private companies and submitted his resume to a few job boards.
11 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Public Hospitals: Central oxygen supply elusive
Ensuring uninterrupted oxygen supplies at hospitals appears to have emerged as the latest choke point in the battle against the coronavirus outbreak, which is bearing down on the country.
3 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Cases may double by month-end
While the country’s healthcare system remains under severe strain following record surge in coronavirus infections almost every day, a team of researchers warn that the total number of confirmed cases could double by the end of this month.
2 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Containment zones planned
The government is likely to put the capital, Narayanganj and Gazipur in the “red zone” with severe restrictions in the wake of rising Covid-19 deaths and infections in the city areas.
1 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Curbs loosen, noose tightens
The country saw its highest one-day death toll from Covid-19 and a record new cases of infections yesterday, the day the government eased the nationwide shutdown ignoring warnings from experts.
31 May 2020, 18:00 PM
A night with howling winds
The roaring, howling sound was what stayed with us all night.
21 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Test rate still very low
The country reported a record single-day surge of detected coronavirus cases -- 1,034 -- as the tally crossed the 15,000 mark, while 11 new deaths took the death toll to 239.
11 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Reopening shopping malls, other businesses could lead to further spread
The national technical advisory committee on Covid-19 recommends reconsidering the government's decision of reopening shopping malls and other businesses, saying such a move could lead to further transmission of the deadly coronavirus.
5 May 2020, 17:08 PM
No clue when the outbreak may peak
While health officials still do not know when the coronavirus outbreak will peak and then plateau, confirmed coronavirus cases crossed the 10,000 mark with the announcement of a record 688 new cases yesterday.
4 May 2020, 18:00 PM
RMG Workers: Thousands rush in, raise fear of spread
Thousands of garment workers yesterday returned to work in industrial belts in Dhaka and elsewhere amid the nationwide shutdown, raising fears of a rapid spread of the novel coronavirus.
29 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Private Hospitals: Doctors left unprotected
When the country is grappling with community transmission of novel coronavirus, more than one third of doctors at private hospitals surveyed said they have still not been provided with any personal protective equipment (PPE).
27 April 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Things better than in US, Europe’
Despite the continued surge in the number of confirmed Covid-19 deaths and cases, Health Minister Zahid Maleque yesterday claimed that Bangladesh was better off than the US and some European countries.
23 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Outbreak may be approaching peak
As the country continues to grapple with coronavirus crisis amid a surge in deaths and infections, experts hint that the outbreak is gradually approaching its peak.
21 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Medical frontliners suffering the brunt
The novel coronavirus, which has so far infected 2,948 people across the country, is beginning to take a toll on those who are on the frontline of the fight against it: the doctors.
20 April 2020, 18:00 PM