The 14-day nationwide lockdown to curb the latest wave of Covid-19 officially started yesterday. With positivity rates stagnating at around 30 percent and the

We are appalled how the river Boral has been allowed to die leading to the destruction of such a crucial water body as Chalan Beel, becoming the victim of

Yet another incident of a minor girl domestic worker being tortured by her employees has been reported. Thankfully this time the alleged culprits—a lawyer and her husband—have been sent to remand for one day, for interrogation.

As we enter the final day before this year’s Eid-ul-Azha, the second-biggest religious festival of the country, it is more important than ever to remember its

Since the Covid-19 pandemic started in March last year, the cinema halls all over the country have been shut down following the health guidelines.

Adistressing report in this daily has brought to light the tragic consequences of the lockdown on the animals trapped in the pet shops in the city’s Katabon area. Behind closed shutters,

A report in this daily reveals how yaba pills are continuing to be smuggled into Bangladesh,

As the eight-day “easing” of the “strict” lockdown is passing us by, reports are flooding in from all directions about how health and safety regulations are neither being enforced nor being followed,

We’ve been here before. We’ve seen lockdown come and go with the same arbitrariness with which most decisions on this land are taken.

It has come out in a recent report by this newspaper that since early June, Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK) has been urging the government to purchase 20 million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for the coronavirus.

We fail to understand the wisdom behind the government’s decision to ease lockdown at a time when the numbers of daily new coronavirus cases and

It is quite disappointing that cattle markets around the capital—which are not set to open before July 17—are already seeing throngs of sellers and potential buyers, most of them not wearing masks, let alone practicing social distancing.

We applaud the government decision to introduce relief packages worth Tk 3,200 crore to segments of the population who have been dealt a fresh blow by

It is unacceptable that a contractor of the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) has disrupted the flow of the Ratnai river in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila worse following its excavation.

It was a Catch-22 situation for the government and no doubt the decisionmakers are in a quandary at this moment.

We are shocked that although the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) had visited Hashem Foods factory in Rupganj, Narayanganj, just one month before the fire, they only checked whether Covid health guidelines were being met, and did not bother to check whether the factory had any fire safety measures as required by law.

Yet another journalist has fallen victim to the dragnet of the Digital Security Act (DSA). Yet another blatant misuse of the law, in the name of

The devastating fire at the food factory in Rupganj is yet another example that accidents occur when rules are disregarded, safety procedures

A 2019 joint study by the Society for Environment and Human Development, the Centre for Injury Prevention and Research Bangladesh

We are deeply concerned regarding the worsening floods in Sirajganj and Lalmonirhat districts, due to the rising water levels of Jamuna and Teesta rivers.