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
World leaders should make the right call
In a joint letter addressed to Joe Biden, more than 60 former heads of state, including former leaders of Britain and France, and over 100 Nobel
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Covid-19 daily casualties hit new high of 96
Although the daily rate of Covid-19 infections seems to have gone down slightly, from being 7,201 on April 12 to 5,185 on April 14, the situation does not seem very promising yet,
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Controlling the pandemic
The best strategy to fight the pandemic is to stifle its spread. This was brought out quite clearly during the last one year of our experience of the virus.
13 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Pandemic pushing up poverty rate again
According to a new report released by the World Bank, the ongoing pandemic has reversed Bangladesh’s steady trend of poverty reduction,
13 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Covid-19 testing must be ramped up immediately
According to a report published by The Daily Star yesterday, Bangladesh ranks lowest among the South Asian countries in terms of Covid-19 testing, with only 30 tests per 1,000 people.
12 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Saving the ultra-poor during lockdown is vital
As economic pain from the coronavirus fall-out continues to bite the country, it’s the poor and ultra-poor who stand to suffer the most. This was as true during the first nationwide lockdown (or “general holiday”) last year as it is on the eve of the second,
12 April 2021, 18:00 PM
A freedom fighter deprived of his dues
It seems that the case of mistaken identity has become endemic with us. We have heard of people suffering in jail because of it, we have heard of people released from it because of it and now we have a genuine freedom fighter being deprived of his allowances because of it.
11 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Police accused of colluding with AL leader in local trader’s death
The recent discovery of the body of 45-year-old trader Hasan Ali by Gaibandha police, found hanging in a toilet of ruling party leader Masud
11 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Nationwide lockdown has to be enforced rigorously
We welcome the government’s latest decision to impose a week-long strict lockdown to curb the rapid transmission of the Covid-19 virus, starting from April 14.
10 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Police arrests four Rab members for abduction, torture
Police arrested four Rab members and a civilian woman on Friday in the capital’s Hatirjheel on the charges of abducting, torturing, and demanding ransom from one Tamzid Hossain.
10 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Frontline health workers should be paid urgently
Right after the coronavirus pandemic started, many healthcare professionals, mostly from public hospitals, started to live at different hotels to protect their families from possible Covid-19 infections.
9 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Poor people ravaged by pandemic fallout
There has never been any doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic would reinforce economic inequalities in the country as the poor, marginalised groups would be disproportionately affected.
9 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Set up more ICU beds urgently
As the Covid-19 situation in the country worsens every day, it seems one thing that has a high supply deficiency is also the thing which is most desperately needed: an ICU bed.
8 April 2021, 18:00 PM
A farce of a lockdown
The ongoing restrictions to contain the surge of Covid-19 infections seem to be failing badly. According to a report by this daily on Thursday, people are still coming out in large numbers to buy commodities from shops or to have refreshments at tea stalls in their neighbourhoods.
8 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Acute water crisis in Barind region
According to a report in this daily yesterday, people in the Barind region of the country are facing an acute shortages of water, including drinking water, due to depleting groundwater levels.
7 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Mugda hospital dogged by understaffing, resources shortage
It is a cause of great concern that in the midst of the second wave of Covid-19 in Bangladesh, one of the healthcare institutions that has stood out in providing services throughout the pandemic, the Mugda General Hospital, is understaffed and also suffering from a lack of necessary resources.
7 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Two child patients per bed!
A stream of child patients with typhoid and cold-related diseases, including pneumonia, has been causing serious overcrowding at the paediatric ward of the Patuakhali General Hospital for the last one month.
6 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Government’s decision to increase the number of ICU beds
It should come as good news that the government has decided to double the number of ICU beds in Dhaka to cope with the surge of Covid-19 patients.
6 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Do we have the scientific data to fight the pandemic?
We know how deadly Covid-19 infections can be, especially now with the second wave of the pandemic and a record number of daily death counts and infection rates.
5 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Another deadly capsize, another avoidable tragedy
We are shocked by the news of yet another launch capsize that took place in the Shitalakkhya river in Narayanganj late Sunday.
5 April 2021, 18:00 PM