Following in the disgraced footsteps of Evaly, social network platform RingID has also recently come into the limelight after one of its directors was arrested.

As grabbing of our rivers goes on across the country without any break despite the High Court’s order to save them at all costs and despite it

Friday, October 1, marked three years since the Digital Security Act (DSA) came into force in Bangladesh. From its very inception, we have

We are concerned at the way cases filed in connection with the Ramu mayhem, one of the worst incidents of communal violence in the recent history of

The last few weeks have seen a barrage of damning reports about a number of publicly funded projects that, despite the difference in their nature, scale and even priority, found themselves facing a common foe: time and cost overruns, with the outcome being far from satisfactory.

The stories of corruption at the land offices are, unfortunately, many. Just on Wednesday, the state minister for rural development and

It has long been alleged that corruption and irregularities have become commonplace in our education sector. The media and other watchdog bodies have regularly covered specific instances of such depravity.

We are concerned about the prospect of an acute accommodation crisis facing admission seekers at the Rajshahi University (RU). Every year, during RU’s admission tests, students from different parts of the country find refuge in the university’s halls.

The long and deep drain was clogged with waste, and it took the fire service divers around five hours to recover her body, about 100 feet from where she fell in.

Every so often, we are bombarded with reports by rights watchdogs about the victims of the much-reviled Digital Security Act (DSA), a law

There are still more than 2.43 million students who have not registered for the vaccine, most of them from colleges under the National University. What will happen to them now? Will the authorities stick to their previous stance of only resuming in-person classes once all students have completed their vaccine registration?

As the Dhaka University authorities are preparing to reopen its 18 dormitories on a limited scale on October 5, ahead of resuming in-person

According to experts, the construction of these illegal structures violates a High Court directive, as one of the landing stations has been constructed around 150 feet inside the river’s boundary demarcation pillars, and the BIWTA has kept filling up the riverbank near the landing station. Moreover, large jetties are being constructed near the landing station’s south portion, around 100 feet inside the river’s boundary demarcation pillar nos. 210, 211 and 212.

In a city already devoid of enough playgrounds, the decision by the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) to build a market inside the Dhupkhola field is disconcerting, to say the least.

Only a credible institution can retrieve the faith of voters in the electoral system which, as of now, stands severely sapped.

It is a cause for concern that five students of a government primary school in Thakurgaon town have tested positive for Covid-19 two weeks after schools reopened in the country.

We are disappointed, but not at all surprised, to find that the project to acquire land and relocate utility service lines for expanding the Dhaka-Sylhet-Tamabil highway is likely to be delayed by two and a half years and cost double, according to the latest revision proposal of the project.

A new report released by the international think tank Freedom House has confirmed what the local media, members of civil society,

The fate of a project undertaken by the Chattogram Development Authority (CDA) to improve the port city’s drainage system provides a classic example of

It comes as no surprise that the elections to 160 union councils and 11 municipal corporations, held in the first phase of the UP elections on September 20, were marred by violence and alleged electoral frauds.