A recent study has revealed that some 53.8 lakh jobs will be lost within the next two decades because of the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”. According to the study, five specialised industries—garment, food and agriculture, furniture, tourism and hospitality, and leather and footwear—will be at risk because of the adoption of new technologies. And of the five sectors, garment will be the worst hit, with as many as 27 lakh jobs likely vanishing by 2041. Such predictions are worrying since we do not seem to be prepared to face the challenges of technological advancement. So determining how we would respond to these new challenges is of crucial importance.

It seems that the matter of public safety features very low on the list of priorities of various ministries and their subordinate agencies.

Courts in our country continue to struggle with a huge backlog of cases. And many cases filed under some special laws involving rape

Yet again, blood was spilled on the roads. And yet again, there were unfortunate deaths and injuries thanks to unruly driving. According to a report by The Daily Star on Saturday, eleven people died in road accidents in different parts of the country within the space of a day.

Fifteen hundred fisher folks living in the vicinity of the Dhaleshwari River have had to change their profession. Some have become day labourers, others rickshaw pullers. Because, the river is no longer capable of sustaining marine life. Authorities forced the tannery

Three workers died while three others suffered injuries upon inhaling toxic gas at a shipbreaking yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila on July 31.

It is heartening to see the finance minister getting tough with the Basic Bank.

Much of the discordant note that one witnesses in society today is due to a lack of tolerance, mores and values.

As this newspaper reported yesterday, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies estimates that around 7.6 million people who have been affected by flood are at risk of hunger and disease.

The dengue epidemic in the country has gripped everyone by fear. According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), a record 1,845 patients outside Dhaka were diagnosed with the viral disease on July 30.

A government committee has found a general lack in discipline when it comes to the hiring of employees by the country’s municipalities.

We express our horror and extend our deepest condolences to the bereaved family of Titash Ghosh who died on a ferry that was kept waiting at Kathalbari terminal in Madaripur for a government official on July 24.

In an ironic turn of events during last year’s road safety movement, many of the students who took to the streets were implicated in vandalism cases, whereas no steps have been taken against those who attacked the peaceful protesters with sharp weapons.

The charge sheet submitted by the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) on Sunday, more than two and a half years after the horrific attacks against members of the Santal community in Gaibandha’s Gobindaganj upazila, seems to have made a glaring omission.

It is very unfortunate that little has been done by the government agencies to make our roads safe during the last one year, despite

At the end of the last fiscal year, foreign aid in the pipeline to Bangladesh went up to a record high USD 48.11 billion. Fresh

It is an irony made possible by the nexus of money and political links that three tribal villages in the Bandarban district of the CHT are in the process of being grabbed and its inhabitants facing the prospect of eviction. Not only that, they are also facing charges of trespassing into what has legally been their abode for generations.

The suicide rate amongst the Bangladeshi women migrant workers in Saudi Arabia has shot up 17 times over the course of three years

It is encouraging to learn about an initiative taken by some undergraduate students of local colleges of Patuakhali to educate the out-of-school children of their area. They started Golachipa Swapno Puron Bidyaniketon, a school for underprivileged children, in March 2017 with 28 students, and within two years of its establishment, it is now providing primary education to 85 students, 47 of them girls.

The foreign minister is absolutely right when he says the repatriation of Rohingyas depends entirely on Myanmar.