It is encouraging that the state minister for shipping has taken a strong position with regard to protecting our rivers from encroachment and pollution.

The arrest of Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat—president of Jubo League Dhaka South unit, also a casino kingpin—on October 6, by Rapid Action Battalion, along with Enamul Haque Arman, vice president of the same unit of the ruling party’s youth wing, is commendable.

A picture in the front page of this paper, apart from speaking a thousand words, demonstrates the utter negligence of duty and indifference to the need to ensure public safety by the BIWTA and the local administration, as well as the gross disregard of the public for their own safety.

A news report published in The Daily Star about the visit of an eight-member team of Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University (JKKNIU) to Europe to “inspect lifts” has brought to light the hidden talents of the university’s academics—that of being technical experts too.

We are dismayed by the poor state of affairs at the Sher-e-Bangla Medical College (SBMC) hospital in Barishal where, according to a report by The Daily Star, over 43 percent of posts for doctors are lying vacant, disrupting crucial medical services.

The case of Mother Textile warrants everyone’s attention. This company has had outstanding loans of Tk 1,168 crore since 1993 and accounts for 27 percent of Rupali Bank’s defaulted loans as of June, 2019.

Despite a raft of measures undertaken by the government, which include a 20 percent incentive on rice export and Tk 3,000 crore subsidy for farmers to buy agricultural tools, the price of paddy has remained low for the past three months.

We seldom give much thought to the people who are disabled or who die due to electrocution by live wire that are found dangling on roads.

That the HUJ(B) is reorganising is not a surprising news. The news was obtained from a recently captured senior leader of the banned militant organisation who had returned from abroad six months ago. The Counterterrorism Task Force deserve kudos for netting, what

Although we are confronted with the news of rape practically every day, it is always a shock when we hear of the actual statistics. Mahila Parishad has found that just last month on average more than seven women had been raped everyday—a record high in a

We are alarmed at the news of sand extraction that has been going on for the last eight months in four villages of Habiganj’s Bahubal upazila, jeopardising the lives and properties of local people.

As we stand at the close of 2019, the High Court order issued back in October, 2010 asking the government to establish a national building code enforcement authority within a year has not been complied with as yet.

It is alarming that the incidences of cardiac diseases in Bangladesh are increasing sharply. And patients are being wrongly diagnosed when it comes to cardiac ailments. Cardiovascular diseases have become a cause of increasing concern, topping the list of non-

It is unfortunate that capitalising on India’s export ban on onion, the traders in the country have exponentially increased the prices of this daily essential item. Now, one kilogram of locally produced onion is being sold at Tk 120 at the kitchen markets across the

According to various newspaper reports, shortage of relief materials including food and other necessities has been a big issue during and after the recent floods that have devastated many districts of the country. There have also been reports of insufficient relief materials in

Myanmar’s minister for the office of the state counsellor, Kyaw Tint Swe’s comment that Myanmar wants to repatriate the Rohingya refugees, made during the general debate at the United Nations General Assembly recently, is preposterous and misleading. Kyaw Tint

One wonders whether the government normally withholds implementation of a piece of legislation pending discussions with all the stakeholders directly or indirectly affected by the legislation.

A new report by the Human Rights Support Society said that at least 92 people had become victims of enforced disappearances last year.

Farmers are treating cattle diseases with a mixture of antibiotics that has reached dangerous levels.

We are horrified to learn from a cover story in Star Weekeend of The Daily Star on September 27 that a total of 1,086 women committed suicide in the six upazilas of Jhenaidah district between 2014 and 2018, while another 9,373 women attempted suicide during the same time, according to data from the district civil surgeon’s office.