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
Outrush of Dhaka leavers is worrisome
The news of large numbers of people leaving Dhaka ahead of next week’s Eid-ul-Fitr festival, flouting all social distancing regulations, is
19 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Thousands of Bangladeshis set to return to the country
An extremely crucial time lies ahead to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, as roughly 29,000 Bangladeshis are set to return to the country over the next couple of weeks from the Middle East.
18 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Cyclone Amphan during the pandemic
The evacuation of thousands of people in response to the warning of cyclone Amphan hitting Bangladesh’s coastal districts is no doubt a huge
18 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Who will protect the protectors?
We notice with abject dismay the continuous and increased number of COVID-19 positive cases among police personnel. According statistics of
17 May 2020, 18:00 PM
WFP’s appeal to help Bangladesh
We appreciate the World Food Programme (WFP) issuing an urgent call for USD 320 million to provide food and financial assistance to the
17 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Drug trade in the time of corona
We are concerned that drug pedlars are seizing the opportunity of lax monitoring by law enforcement agencies to become active again in different
16 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh’s rice production and stock satisfactory
At a time when people are worried about the possibility of food shortage in the country, as the UN has warned the world about the possibility of
16 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Reducing vegetable growers’ anxiety
Since the beginning of the countrywide shutdown on March 26, vegetable growers across the country have been incurring huge losses as many of
15 May 2020, 18:00 PM
The loss of a luminary
In the midst of one of the darkest moments in the history of independent Bangladesh, we have lost a guardian and a beacon of hope, Professor
15 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Remarkable work by Bangladeshi scientists
A team of Bangladeshi scientists at the Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF) led by Dr Senjuti Saha has successfully managed to complete the
14 May 2020, 18:00 PM
The rich and influential creep into relief list!
A report in this daily about the name of the industries and commerce affairs secretary of Brahmanbaria Awami League being in the list of
14 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Editorial: Protect migrant workers from food shortages
A report in this daily on May 13 painted a grim picture of the fate of Bangladeshi migrant workers with most host countries doing very little to
13 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Why don’t the beneficiaries’ NID numbers match with those on EC database?
While the government’s cash assistance programme for 50 lakh poor families is supposed to start from today, it is unfortunate to learn that many
13 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Pay staff at the private universities
Ordinarily, it doesn’t make sense for a university to stop paying its staff in the middle of a semester that the students have already paid for.
12 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Hazardous plastic waste during pandemic
While health workers are desperately trying to treat Covid-19 and other critically ill patients in hospitals and the public is trying to maintain better hygiene, the fallout of the use of a huge amount of plastic waste generated during the last month or so is being overlooked.
12 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Reality of reopening malls and markets
In an attempt to ease the nationwide lockdown and resume economic activities, selective shopping malls and other businesses were allowed to
11 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Emergency rooms cannot turn away patients
We are appalled by a report in this paper that relates the harrowing tales of family members of critically ill patients who have been denied treatment
11 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Soaring youth unemployment can have disastrous outcome
With the “Great Lockdown” poised to cause the worst global recession in nearly a century, young Bangladeshis—who were already struggling with
10 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Focus more on epidemiological surveillance
While conducting an epidemiological surveillance is crucial to understand and fight the outbreak of an extremely contagious disease like Covid-19, it is worrying that we are yet to carry out any such surveillance to handle the outbreak of the disease in the country.
10 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Celebrating Mother’s Day
As we celebrate International Mother’s Day today, remaining confined to our homes, we, in fact, get a better chance to see the hard work our mothers have to do every single day only to make our lives comfortable.
9 May 2020, 18:00 PM