Timely election must for economic stability
23 October 2025, 15:00 PM
Zero pass rate a sign of bigger problems
23 October 2025, 05:00 AM
Reduce preventable deaths and injuries
22 October 2025, 07:00 AM
Persistent rights concerns demand scrutiny
21 October 2025, 14:00 PM
Legal labour migration for all workers is crucial
21 October 2025, 05:00 AM
After airport fire, the government must rebuild confidence
20 October 2025, 14:00 PM
A tariff schedule that hurts businesses
20 October 2025, 06:58 AM
Sabotage or not, the government must account for the recent fires
19 October 2025, 14:00 PM
Mirpur at risk as illegal chemical businesses mushroom
19 October 2025, 07:00 AM
Tripura mob killing of Bangladeshis exposes the accountability gap
19 October 2025, 05:00 AM
Savar tannery estate is a big hazard to the environment
It is sad but true that the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate (STIE) in Hemayetpur has defeated the very purpose for which it was established.
24 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Remove all confusion regarding flights to India
Statements made by the foreign minister and Biman on August 17 and 22, respectively, have led to another bout of confusion for air
23 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Let’s take the fight to Aedes
It is heartening to know that the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has recently identified 19 Aedes hotspots in Dhaka—areas
23 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Country’s only tissue bank operating silently and seamlessly
At a time when we are bombarded with reports about how strained our health system is due to the Covid-19 pandemic—and how exhausted
22 August 2021, 18:00 PM
We can’t let our guard down in Covid response
After a period of soaring infections, the past few weeks have seen a slow but steady decline in numbers related to Covid-19 in the country.
22 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Covid-19 vaccines being embezzled in the black market
It appears that the peddling of Covid-19 vaccines on the black market—something we have feared to be an inevitability since February—is
21 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Day when govt turned terrorist
On August 21, 2004, our government became a terrorist organisation. In what followed, the state itself became accessory to that terrorist act.
21 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Migrant workers forced into quandary over flight home
As if migrant workers are not already suffering enough due to unemployment and underpayment/non-payment of salaries during the pandemic, those in
19 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Any law on data protection must respect data privacy
The protection of personal data in the modern world is a complicated and contentious issue, especially when there is increasing evidence not just of spyware
19 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Stop victimising the passengers
The ongoing row between Biman Bangladesh Airlines and its online ticket sales partner is causing untold sufferings for hundreds of intended passengers.
18 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Evacuate Bangladeshi citizens trapped in Afghanistan
As the situation continues to evolve from day to day, it is becoming increasingly difficult to assess the current climate of Afghanistan. However, despite the
18 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Passing the buck for the dengue crisis won’t help
Seldom does a healthcare system, beset by its already fragile state, have to cope with a prolonged pandemic, as ours has done for the last 16 months, while having to cope with another serious illness simultaneously.
17 August 2021, 18:00 PM
The incredible feat of a brave mother
We are astonished by the bravery of a mother of a teenage girl who, according to a report published yesterday, willingly got herself trafficked to India by the same trafficking gang that had tricked her 17-year-old daughter into travelling to that country, only to sell her off to a brothel in Bihar.
17 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Should in-person learning be left to chance again?
The news that the government is planning to initiate a phased return to in-person classes starting in September is indeed an encouraging one. According to
16 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Taliban victory is writ large in Afghanistan
All events indicate that a Taliban victory in Afghanistan is now a certainty. The former prime minister Ashraf Ghani has reportedly left the country, saying that he
16 August 2021, 18:00 PM
The economic spasms of debt rescheduling
The warning from Bangladesh Bank (BB)—that unrealised rescheduled loans might create a challenging situation for the profitability and solvency of banks
15 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Fraudulent practices in e-commerce cannot be tolerated
We agree with the opinion of experts—at a virtual discussion on “Building a Sustainable Ecosystem for E-commerce”, organised by the Dhaka Chamber of
15 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Taliban rule in Afghanistan now seems inevitable
The latest and most significant achievement of the Taliban has been their takeover of Kandahar—Afghanistan’s second-largest city after Kabul—on Friday.
14 August 2021, 18:00 PM
National Mourning Day
Today is the 46th anniversary of the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Within less than four years of the birth of Bangladesh, the
14 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Digital access comes before digital learning
We appreciate the government’s initiative to buy new digital contents containing interactive and communicative lessons to help secondary students tap the potential of distance learning.
13 August 2021, 18:00 PM