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
Unplanned industrialisation killing the Sutang river
The rivers of Bangladesh are so crucial to its existence that they have been recognised as “living entities” or “legal persons” with their own set of rights by the High Court, and the National River Conservation Commission (NRCC) has been appointed as the legal guardian of all rivers in the country.
14 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Are we ready for a third spike of the pandemic?
No sooner had the virus reached a trough than we see a spike in the number of infected cases in the country. Some countries have been so badly infected, like Italy, that they have gone into another countrywide lock down.
14 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Govt planning to build 30,000 homes for freedom fighters
We warmly welcome the government’s plan to build 30,000 homes for those of our valiant freedom fighters who are insolvent, and for the families of deceased and martyred war heroes.
13 March 2021, 18:00 PM
UN’s decision to visit Bhasan Char encouraging
The UN’s decision to send a delegation to visit Bhasan Char, where the government has built a housing facility for around one lakh Rohingya refugees, is a welcome one.
13 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Child marriages increased drastically during lockdown
We are alarmed at the findings of a study conducted by the Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) on the situation of child marriages across the country. It has found that at least 13,886 child marriages took place in 21 districts of the country during the lockdown last year.
12 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Can Dhaka be free from waterlogging?
We heartily welcome the initiatives of two city corporations to draw immediate and long term plans to solve Dhaka’s waterlogging problem.
12 March 2021, 18:00 PM
A madrasa teacher’s wrath on an eight-year-old
The recent video of the violent beating of an eight-year-old by a madrasa teacher shows the impunity that authority figures in our educational institutions still enjoy.
11 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Number of new coronavirus cases rising
The fact that the number of new coronavirus cases has been rising for a week is extremely disconcerting, particularly given that schools and colleges are scheduled to reopen on March 30, and universities soon after.
11 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Should we worry about the new Covid-19 variant?
There has been a new and concerning development with regard to the Covid-19 pandemic situation in Bangladesh.
10 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Maitri Setu over Feni river
As the bridge over Feni river (namely “Maitri Setu”) has been inaugurated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on March 9, we are very hopeful that it will create new trade opportunities for the two countries and increase inter-regional trade.
10 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Outgoing ACC chief’s frank admission
It is not often that the outgoing head of a very important state institution admits his failure in fulfilling his mandate.
9 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Within political parties, it’s still a man’s world
For a political party to be truly a people’s party, it’s imperative that there is fair representation of various sections of the population, including women, within the party hierarchy.
9 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Another life lost in a road accident
The recent addition of a woman to the list of casualties resulting from road accidents is testament to the fact that our authorities have failed to bring under control the high rate of deaths from road accidents in the country.
8 March 2021, 18:00 PM
We have a law but domestic violence is not falling
It is a shocking reality that domestic violence, a malaise that we have been plagued with for decades, intensified in 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic broke out.
8 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Rehabilitate female returnee migrants
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the unfair treatment of Bangladeshi migrant workers in host countries was frequently in the spotlight—whether it was the detention of unregistered workers in unsafe facilities,
7 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Vigilance against religious extremists
One hears very often from a few inveterate optimists that Bangladesh has seen the end of religious extremism. We have been continually cautioning against entertaining any euphoria that absence of demonstrative activity on their part is not an indication of the demise of the religious extremists altogether.
7 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Another death at a shipbreaking yard
We are appalled at the tragic and untimely death of a worker in one of Chattogram’s shipbreaking yards. The foreman, Ripon Mia (37), died on the spot after iron sheets fell on him at Tasin Steel Shipbreaking Yard, a yard owned by a Chattogram-4 lawmaker.
6 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Achieving the mass inoculation target
While as per the National Vaccine Deployment Plan, 70 lakh people should have been inoculated in the first month of the mass vaccination campaign that began on February 7, the government has achieved only 51.15 percent of the target,
6 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Cost overruns and delays cannot be the norm
The recent finding by a probe body of the University Grants Commission (UGC) about the mishandling of projects at Begum Rokeya University of Rangpur (BRUR) is a classic example of how government schemes experience delays in implementation due to anomalies and rules violations by the concerned authorities.
5 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Should we worry about crystal meth?
Although there is no established market for crystal methamphetamine or meth in Bangladesh yet and so far meth-related arrests and seizures have remained minimal, recent developments suggest a growing trend with the powerful stimulant, popularly known as “ice”,
5 March 2021, 18:00 PM