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
One doctor for every 10,000 prisoners
The prisons in the country have an estimated 90,000 prisoners and only nine doctors to look after them. We know that some 23 inmates are dying every month because it is not just doctors that are missing from the prison healthcare system—there’s a huge
17 September 2019, 18:00 PM
UN report on Myanmar alarming
The recent revelation in a report by a UN fact-finding mission that said, the 600,00 Rohingya remaining in Myanmar’s Rakhine state face “serious risk of genocide” and that repatriation of the ones who have been driven out of the country by its military
17 September 2019, 18:00 PM
A landfill without environmental clearance
It is unfortunate that a landfill in Aminbazar on the outskirts of Dhaka, run by Dhaka North City Corporation, does not have any environmental clearance. A photo published in The Daily Star on September 16 showed how indiscriminate dumping of all types of
16 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Escalation of tension between the US and Iran undesirable
The narratives that have emerged from the United States in the aftermath of the recent attacks on Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s state petroleum and natural gas company, are alarming. While US President Donald Trump has said on Twitter that they are “locked and
16 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Public servants’ profligacy
We are used to hearing of reckless use of public money through various methods and means, pillows costing thousands of takas for example, but perhaps for the first time we are hearing of huge sums of money spent on a public project even before completing the very basics to get it going.
15 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Fishing bans should accompany compensatory measures
We applaud the government for its successful endeavours to increase fish production in the country—efforts that have resulted in
15 September 2019, 18:00 PM
People being conned with fake job offers
For many people, a job in the Customs department is a dream come true. Taking advantage of the massive unemployment situation amongst graduates in the country, this paper has found a number of people who have been conned out of their savings with the promise of a job in Chattogram Customs.
14 September 2019, 18:00 PM
A quick recipe for embezzlement
It came as no surprise that there was yet another case of misappropriation of public funds in the name of non-existent needs for medical equipment—taking place at the Rangpur Medical College in June 2018—but what had us rolling our eyes is the extraordinary swiftness with which this particular case was executed. Normally,
14 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Intra-party feud gone to the extreme
Eliyas Numan, a Swechchasebak League leader, was not only beaten up but his assailants chopped off his left hand. The brutal attack was carried out by members of Jubo League, who apparently were unhappy with Numan for facilitating electricity connections from Palli
13 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Our female expatriate workers’ misery
We are waiting for that day to hear our female workers returning from the Middle East recounting good things and narrating happy experiences of their stay in their workplace. But for the time being we shall have to endure on a consistent basis their harrowing tales
13 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Gang rape victim’s marriage to rapist!
An OC of Pabna Sadar Station has been accused of forcing a gang-rape victim to marry one of the rapists in a bid to cover up the incident and protect the criminals.
12 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Action against BCL leadership
It is learnt that the prime minister is contemplating to dissolve the current committee of Bangladesh Chattra League and, as a prelude to this, the special entry passes of the president and general secretary of the BCL to Gano Bhaban have been revoked.
12 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Formation of rules for students with disabilities
t is timely and commendable that the High Court has directed the government to formulate specific rules for assessment of answer scripts of students with disabilities in public examinations,
11 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Bribery institutionalised in sub-registrar offices
In a typical reaction from the authorities, the research report titled “Challenges of Good Governance in Land Deed Registration Service and Way Forward” by Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), has been trashed as ill-motivated.
11 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Prospects and challenges of BRI
While Bangladesh’s involvement with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will open up new avenues of growth in essential sectors like trade, investment, tourism, connectivity and education, we must also watch out for the potential ramifications.
9 September 2019, 18:00 PM
No deterrents for killers on the road
The death of a singer and music composer, Parvez Rob, after being hit by a recklessly driven bus of Victor Classic Paribahan followed by another bus of the same company hitting his son Mehedi and his friend Alvi, killing the latter instantly, is a horrific reminder of the
9 September 2019, 18:00 PM
For an improved traffic management system
While it is good to know of the many initiatives the government has undertaken to streamline the public transport sector, we would like to bring to the government’s notice some basic issues that should be taken care of, if the government is sincere about bringing discipline in the transport sector.
8 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Beef up security measures
As this newspaper reported yesterday, transnational syndicates have apparently been using Bangladeshi territory to smuggle small firearms from one Indian state into another.
8 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Progress on literacy goes slow
Although the literacy rate has reached 73.9 percent in 2018 (up from 48.8 percent in 2008), there is much work still to be done.
7 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Telling off the UN
The nature of the foreign minister’s outburst against the UN, both abrasive and devoid of diplomatic suaveness, has shocked and surprised us.
7 September 2019, 18:00 PM