The movement by students for safer roads had moved the authorities into action and the Bangladesh Road Transport Act-2018 was enacted last August but it has not been implemented as yet. People are still being killed and maimed on our roads but from what has

It was a Super Sunday in England this week with the Cricket World Cup and Wimbledon finals taking place on the same day. Both the finals made for a thrilling watch and went on to make history. The nail-biting World Cup final at Lord’s between England and New Zealand led to a first-ever Super Over.

It is heartening to note that the South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon, during the official summit talks with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on July 14, has assured Bangladesh of considering duty-free and quota-free market access for all Bangladeshi products to their market.

A good part of the country’s north and eastern regions has been affected by severe flood. While this is a yearly phenomenon, this year both the north and the eastern and hilly regions have been affected simultaneously,

The United Nations Population Division in its data for 2017 estimates around 68 percent of our population are of working age.

The home minister’s disclosure in parliament that 294 Bangladeshi nationals have been killed by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) on the Bangladesh-India border in the last 10 years sums up the outcome of a decade’s worth of talks and initiatives by officials from both nations.

We are heartened to learn from the 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) that Bangladesh lifted some 19.3 million people out of poverty over the decade between 2004 and 2014.

We thank the Bangladesh Bank (BB) for its assurance that the depositors of People’s Leasing and Financial Services (PLFS) will get their money back as BB gears up to liquidate PLFS, a non-bank financial institution (NBFI);

We compliment the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for its probe report that has found negligence of some of its investigating officials that resulted in an innocent man, Jaha Alam, languishing in jail for three years.

Although the Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) authorities may choose to term its action against a physician of the hospital as a “warning” to him, many would see his transfer from CMCH to a Rangamati hospital as more of a punishment.

We thank former UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon for his comment that Bangladesh is the best teacher in climate change adaptation while addressing an audience at the conference on climate change adaptation in Dhaka. It is true that Bangladesh has come up with some innovative adaptation practices such as developing water resilient crops, home solar systems and a climate trust fund and these can be emulated by other countries.

We can understand the intention of the DSCC mayor to address the horrendous traffic situation that prevails in the capital city. However, the purpose of reducing traffic congestion is to benefit the people of Dhaka.

The dengue outbreak in the capital has reached alarming proportions during the last two months, as this daily reported on July 10.

The World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines state that 10 items are needed to provide child curative care. Unfortunately, 95 percent of hospitals and healthcare institutions in the country do not have all the 10 basic instruments to treat children. And this data is coming

As the incessant downpour on July 8 has left many of the low-lying areas of the port city under knee-to-waist-deep water, the issue of poor town planning has once again come to the fore. About 187.2mm of rain in 24 hours in the city has not only submerged its major

The government’s subsidy expenditure has increased by a mammoth 29.36 percent this fiscal year to Tk 46,385 crore, with allocation for exporters going up by a staggering 70.63 percent year-on-year to Tk 6,825 crore.

It is shocking and worrisome to learn from a Prothom Alo report that over 300 children have been involved in almost 100 murders in the capital in the last 16 years.

It is unthinkable that decrepit and damaged railway bridges would remain in a state of disrepair not for one, two or ten days but for years together.

Bangladesh has seen an alarming rise in child rape and abuse cases in recent times.

It was heartening to know that an enterprising man in a remote village in Tangail’s Nagarpur Upazila is showing the world how to bring about a material change with an immaterial toolkit comprised only of hard work, sheer willpower and perseverance.