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
Curb graft instead of hiking gas prices
The High Court has expressed the sentiments of the common citizens in declaring that even if half the corruption in Petrobangla and Titas was stemmed, raising the prices of gas would have been unnecessary.
1 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Prevent the Surma going down the Buriganga way
That we as a people have scant regard for the natural resources that we are blessed with is well-proven, and well-proven too is the fact that the authorities respond to a situation only when it is too late.
31 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Another fire wrecks the lives of innocents
Days after the death of 26 people in Thursday's Banani inferno, a massive fire swept through the Gulshan-1 DNCC kitchen market on Sunday, burning down over 200 shops.
31 March 2019, 18:00 PM
No longer a safe haven for deer
Various poacher gangs are decimating the spotted deer population in Bhola's Monpura forest. The forest, spread out across 5,000 hectares of land, is supposed to be a safe haven for spotted dear.
30 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Crimes in the Rohingya camps
THE recent discoveries by police of the bullet-hit body of a 35-year-old Rohingya man near Noyapara Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf and the body of an 18-year-old Rohingya woman recovered from Balukhali refugee camp
30 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Has non-compliance of rules become the order of the day?
Hardly had we gotten over the Old Dhaka fire, when we are again left to count the dead bodies of people who per-ished in the inferno at a landmark building in Banani on Thursday, 25 so far.
29 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Inefficiency in road construction
We wonder why the quality of our roads is so poor while the cost of per kilometre road construction here is the highest in the world.
29 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Frightening picture of road safety
Almost every day we are presented with horrendous reports of more road accidents and more deaths and injuries.
28 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Horrific fire at FR tower
We are filled with sorrow at the lives lost in the terrible fire at FR Tower in Banani yesterday.
28 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Foreign airlines pulling out of HSIA
The Singapore-based budget airline Scoot is the latest foreign operator that has just announced its decision to pull out of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA). The reason given to stop its Bangladesh operations is that it is apparently not cost-effective to operate a route here.
27 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Their homes burnt, where will they go?
A report published in this daily on March 27 has once again brought to the fore how the vulnerability of indigenous communities is often used as an instrument of exploitation against them.
27 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Unsatisfactory state of private medical education
It is alarming to learn that most private medical colleges in the country are running without sufficient number of teachers, let alone experienced teachers, and without the necessary infrastructure.
26 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Largest irrigation project under threat
The 18km-long main canal that was commissioned in 1998 which is connected to other secondary and tertiary canal networks, spanning
26 March 2019, 18:00 PM
The endless revisions of Purbachal Project
This newspaper on March 24 reported how Rajuk is trying to change land allotted for educational institutions and environmental preservation in the Purbachal Project into commercial and business plots.
25 March 2019, 18:00 PM
48 years as an independent nation
Today marks 48 years of Bangladesh as an independent country. Today, we feel proud as a nation for how far we have come in only a little less than half a century since independence.
25 March 2019, 18:00 PM
111 draft recommendations of Road Safety Committee!
If numbers are meant to impress, one must admit that the latest report of the latest committee on road safety, albeit in draft form presently, is a voluminous document deserving our praise.
24 March 2019, 18:00 PM
IS shorn of their territory
The Kurdish-led forces in Syria pronounced the death of the IS caliphate after raising their flag in Baghouz, a remote riverside village, where jihadists of different nationalities made their last desperate stand against the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.
24 March 2019, 18:00 PM
What are we doing to save our water sources?
Various reports on the occasion of World Water Day, observed on March 22, have brought the terrible foreboding of a scenario in which we will literally run out of water.
23 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Take unfit vehicles off the roads
Damning reports along with horrendous pictures about the state of our transport sector were published in all our major national dailies yesterday.
23 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Halda River pollution getting worse
A recent report by the Department of Environment (DoE) states that the discharge of industrial effluents into the Halda River is causing depletion of fish stocks.
22 March 2019, 18:00 PM