It is alarming to learn that none of the 88 hospitals and 182 diagnostic centres operating in Chattogram have any mechanism in place to incinerate clinical waste. Even the two main government hospitals of the city—Chattogram Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) and Chattogram General Hospital (CGH)—do not have incinerators.

The Ministry of Liberation War Affairs couldn’t have presented the nation with anything worse than a Razakars’ list replete with mistakes on the eve of our 49th Victory Day.

As the demand for foreign workers in the Gulf countries has been in decline due to various reasons, such as malpractices

Days after a fire broke out in a plastic factory in Keraniganj which killed 19 workers, another fire in a Gazipur electric fan and light bulb factory claimed at least 10 lives.

That truth can be stranger than fiction has been nailed home by a report titled: “No strength left to seek justice” printed in this daily on December 15.

Today we celebrate 48 years of our existence as an independent nation, breathing the air of a free country and in a free environment.

After the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse, considered the world’s worst garment factory disaster, it was expected that the global scrutiny would lead to improved labour conditions in Bangladesh.

Yesterday, on Martyred Intellectuals Day, we mourned the brutal murders of many of our brightest and most enlightened men and women of this land at the hands of the Pakistani Army and their collaborators during the Liberation War of 1971.

This week, the Centre for Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) celebrated its 40th anniversary. During these four decades, the CRP has worked tirelessly for the rehabilitation of the paralysed in Bangladesh and we would like to congratulate its founder Valerie Ann Taylor, as well as everyone associated with the organisation, for the terrific effort they have all put in towards the wellbeing of others.

That genocide had been committed against the Rohingya by the Myanmar military—that led to the killing of thousands of Rohingya and exodus of more than seven lakh to neighboring Bangladesh—cannot be denied. And the mendacity resorted to by Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi is a shame.

Breach of law, more often than not, can be lethal and costly. This time it has cost the lives of at least 11 people, all workers in a plastic factory in Keraniganj

The University Grants Commission’s (UGC) directive asking all public universities to stop evening classes has created more confusion than clarity.

It is heartening to learn from a report by The Daily Star on December 9 that a farmer named Md Abdul Wahid Sardar in Jashore has been removing nails from billboards, banners and signboards from the trunks of roadside trees since July 2018.

Coming on the heels of the controversial National Register of Citizens (NRC) policy in Assam, does the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), one wonders, herald the end of a pluralistic and secular India, and the fulfilment of the dream of the RSS and its founders like Savarkar?

There is considerable gap between the government’s claim regarding the state of implementation of the recommendations of the UN Human Rights Council and the reality.

President Abdul Hamid has rightly pointed out the general malaise that has gripped our public universities over the years.

We commend the High Court for passing an order to the Department of Environment (DoE) on December 8 to shut down all illegal industries, factories, and organisations on both shores of the Buriganga and submit a complete compliance report to it.

The alleged genocide case against Myanmar at The Hague begins today, after the Gambia filed a lawsuit against Myanmar on November 11, accusing it of violating the UN Genocide Convention on behalf of the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Conference.

A report published by this daily on December 7, which suggested that a homicide case was filed as an unnatural death (due to suicide) by the police due to the delay in receiving autopsy report, sheds light on the loopholes in our crime investigation process.

We are shocked to learn from a Daily Star report that a part of the Meghna River in Munshiganj is being filled up to set up a petroleum company.