It defies all common sense that a police officer of the rank of inspector should continue to serve in the force despite the fact that he was...

The prices of onions have shot through the roof, reaching Tk 250 in Dhaka and many other districts causing immense suffering for the people.

We are humbled by the honesty of a rickshaw puller in Bogura who returned 18.5 lakh taka to a passenger who had mistakenly left it in the rickshaw.

Over two years into Myanmar’s brutal military campaign against its Rohingya minority, its days of impunity seem to be coming to an end.

A recently published World Bank report has revealed that Bangladesh could significantly boost export growth, maintain its position as a leading garment and textile manufacturer, and create more jobs by improving its transport and logistics systems.

In the latest Global Bribery Risk Index, Bangladesh has been identified as the “country with the highest risk” when it comes to bribery in South Asia.

The investigating agencies deserve compliments for submitting the charge sheet in the cold-blooded, brutal killing of Abrar Fahad.

It is quite a shock to learn that while huge investments are being made in various mega infrastructure projects, when it comes to a sector as important as the country’s railway,

A public hearing was jointly organised by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and Corruption Prevention Committee (CPA) on November 13 to hear

The unbelievably high number of deaths of our female migrant workers in Saudi Arabia begs the very basic question

We are deeply shocked at the deadly train accident that happened on November 12 in Brahmanbaria’s Kashba upazila which killed at least 16 people and injured a hundred others.

The Gambia has filed a case against Myanmar with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on behalf of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

A photo published on the front page of this daily on November 10, 2019, depicting a chaotic picture of three-wheelers being haphazardly parked on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway, brings to light one of the key problems of our highways: their transformation into veritable parking lots by unruly drivers. In a country that is already grappling with an increasing number of fatal crashes on the highways, such a picture is not only undesirable but also deplorable.

A pparently, there is no lack of lofty words from the relevant agencies regarding the need to preserve our rivers; but we see very little substantive action to free the rivers of encroachment and resuscitate them back to their original state.

It is unfortunate that the Road Transport Act, 2018, which was supposed to take effect from November 1, could not be implemented due to a lack of preparation from the authorities,

The Indian Supreme Court has delivered its verdict on the long-standing dispute centring around the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India.

According to a recent report by Amnesty International, 466 people were killed last year in the ongoing anti-drug campaign in Bangladesh—that is more than one dead per day.

A government survey on mental disorders in the country has come up with some astounding figures: 2.25 crore people suffer from some sort of mental disorder.

It has been three years since Santals living on a sugarcane farm in Gaibandha were brutally evicted by police backed by influentials in an operation that left three Santals dead and many injured with many more missing.

According to a recent report, the country is likely to be hit by a “carbon bomb” once the projected 30-coal based power plants go into operation by 2031.