Bullying at schools, which often leaves negative impact on children’s mental development, is largely going unreported and thus unaddressed according to a report in this newspaper yesterday.

It is after navigating through many odds, overcoming numerous ups and downs, enduring frequent failures and heartbreaks, Bangladesh has ensconced itself in the world of

While most government agencies remain focused on the problems of the big cities, we seldom see what is happening in rural areas.

It has been six years since the body of 17-year-old Tanwir Muhammad Taqi, a brilliant student, was found on the bank of the river Shitalakkhya after he had gone missing for two days in March 2013.

As Bangladesh climbs up the ladder in the global economy, the need for homegrown talent and skills required by a changing job market is being increasingly felt.

It is heartening to see Bangladesh achieve an eight-place leap in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business 2020 index. In the latest edition of the study the country scored 168, as opposed to 176 in the previous year’s index.

A statement by a US official at a recent hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific in the US Congress in Washington, has brought to the fore the strange dichotomy Bangladesh faces in accomplishing an impressive growth rate record and yet performing not so well in terms of democratic practices.

According to the World Bank report titled “Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2019” (EBA), Bangladesh has one of the least favourable regulatory frameworks for farmers.

Time extensions on important public sector projects is nothing new in our country. However, when it comes to this particular project, one that was designed to facilitate manpower training in laboratory medicine at hospital and community levels, it warrants further attention.

Indeed, the media’s is not always the first door one should knock for either expressing or seeking redress of one’s grievances. And we believe that the striking cricketers should have placed their demands to the right quarters, the BCB, before going public on the matter. By the same token, we feel the BCB boss has overreacted in his response to the cricketers’ decision to go on strike.

As we observed the National Road Safety Day yesterday, with the government and various non-government organisations holding many programmes to mark the day, we cannot but feel disappointed at the slow progress of the government agencies concerned to make our roads safe.

We welcome the timely move by the prime minister’s ICT affairs advisor who stepped in to ward off a potentially volatile standoff between the telecom regulatory authority (BTRC) and two of the largest telecom operators, Grameenphone and Robi.

We would like to thank the parliamentary standing committee on public undertakings for finally taking to task the chief of the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA).

The recent violence in Bhola’s Borhanuddin upazila, which led to the deaths of four people and injuries of hundreds of others, is reminiscent of the sporadic episodes of communal violence that have often disturbed the religious harmony of our country in recent years.

With most trains operating in the country’s northwestern and southern regions failing to run on time primarily due to inadequate capacity of railway tracks, Bangladesh Railway is adding new trains in the regions without doing any proper assessment.

It is heart-breaking to learn of yet another important waterbody—a stream, Bandarban’s Myaksi Chhara—being shrunk to a fraction of its original size because of the greed of land grabbers.

Explosion in CNG-run vehicles is a frequent phenomenon in Bangladesh.

Three years after China promised to provide around USD 20 billion to Bangladesh, only one-fourth of the amount has been released for use.

It is unfortunate that Bangladesh has gone two notches down in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) this year, ranking 88th among the 117 countries, whereas last year, the country ranked 86th out of the 119 countries.

It is disturbing to know about Bablu Shiekh, a man who has had to fight a legal battle for 17 long years before he was finally cleared of charges for a crime he did not commit.