The Bengali mind is known for its innovativeness. The Dholai Khal initiative is well-known nearly all over the world.

The government has finally formed a trustee board to settle compensation claims over road accidents.

The authorities must rid our university campuses of this source of toxicity.

The skyrocketing food prices continue to make the headlines in Bangladesh, exposing the government’s failure to put in place an effective mechanism to check the prices of essential goods in the kitchen markets.

Why did the education authorities fail to give teachers any sort of directives in this regard over the past 1.5 years?

What are the consequences of workers’ protests in Bangladesh? In any developed society, one would expect protests to be a tool to hold higher powers to account, rather than an excuse to punish the protesters.

The signing of the agreement signals the removal of all reservations the UN might have had about the government’s decision to relocate around 100,000 refugees to the island.

We are delighted to learn that the construction work of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel under the river Karnaphuli, the first

Ever since the takeover by the Taliban, there have been widespread concerns over the rights of women and minority communities within the country.

In the aftermath of the arrest of Jashore-based Bangladesh Chhatra League leader Akul Hossain on September 2, and the subsequent interrogation by the

We are disappointed to learn of yet another concession made by the authorities to transport associations in the form of late fine waiver for vehicles and

We are quite disappointed at the way the rapid PCR labs are functioning at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka.

The recent assassination of Mohib Ullah, chairman of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights, has increased

Arecent study on the prevalence of electronic gadgets among students and its impact on their health, jointly conducted by researchers of various universities in the country, has found that secondary level students became overly dependent on electronic gadgets during the past year and a half of the pandemic.

A 2019 report from the planning ministry pointed out that most ministries prepare projects without proper feasibility studies and technical designs, which is at the heart of the irregularities in project implementation.

The 543-day-long school closure in Bangladesh—one of the longest in the world—has caused worries about heavy learning losses, and raised concerns over the lack of teachers to help students with recovery.

Over the last couple of weeks, prices of almost all daily essentials have shot up in kitchen markets across Bangladesh, causing immense suffering for people with fixed income, who are already struggling due to the economic slowdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

As the government took a strong position to stop the broadcast of foreign channels that are not providing advertisement-free content, the

Unbeknownst to us, we have made labour in Bangladesh undignified by terming it “cheap.” We have used this slogan to draw foreign investment, pronouncing the merits of investing here—that “labour comes cheap” in Bangladesh—without realising the damage it has caused to our national image. And this phenomenon, regrettably, has pervaded almost all sectors where production is labour-intensive, especially in the tea sector.

The killing of Rohingya refugee leader Mohib Ullah exposes several systemic loopholes. Firstly, the security in the Rohingya camps is