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
Drug cases flounder for lack of witness
It is surprising that scores of drug related cases would remain unadjudicated, some of them for as many as eight years, because witnesses fail to turn up for the hearings.
22 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Forest land gobbled up by development projects
We are befuddled how the government proposes to increase forest land to 20 percent of the country's total land mass by 2030 when every year various government agencies are taking up forest land for their establishments and development projects.
21 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Wash, rinse, repeat
Following the death of university student Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury who was run over and killed by a bus on March 19, the capital city and some other parts of the country have been rocked by student demonstrations.
21 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Enforce brick kiln control law
Local people living on Manpura Island of Bhola are witnesses to the decimation of trees like chambol and raintree for brick kilns.
20 March 2019, 18:00 PM
How long before our roads are made safe?
How many will have to die before something as fundamental as the safety of travelling is ensured?
20 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Railway remains a neglected sector
The railway minister recently hinted about the possibility of raising train fares in the future. But before that is done, we suggest that the ministry addresses a few important things that ail the sector.
19 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Protect the rights of migrant workers
According to a report in this daily on March 18, around 300 to 400 Bangladeshi migrant workers are being deported every week from Saudi Arabia.
19 March 2019, 18:00 PM
A cushy scheme for loan defaulters
That the banking sector in this country is plagued by a culture of loan defaulting is not lost on anyone—as of last year, the total amount of defaulted loans stood at Tk 93,911 crore.
18 March 2019, 18:00 PM
A promising initiative
The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority's (BRTA) proposal to make proof of cylinder retest certificate mandatory for refilling at filling stations for CNG-run vehicles is promising.
18 March 2019, 18:00 PM
We repeat the PM's call
We reiterate fully the prime minister's call to the newly elected leaders of Ducsu to help revive healthy politics on campus. The prime minister has hit the nail on the head with her statement.
17 March 2019, 18:00 PM
The case of the missing ambassador
We are happy to see that the ambassador, who had gone missing 15 months ago, has returned home. And he happens to be among only a lucky few to have done so.
17 March 2019, 18:00 PM
He charges only Tk 1 as school fees!
Seldom do we come across a person so selfless that he dedicates his life to spread literacy among children for the token sum of Taka 1 a day for his labour.
16 March 2019, 18:00 PM
How can we stop hate crimes like the Christchurch massacre?
We join the world in mourning the 49 (so far reported) lives lost in the horrific Christchurch (New Zealand) massacre of Muslim devotees who were offering their Friday prayers.
16 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Murder in Mosques
There can be no place for hatred, intolerance and senseless violence anywhere in the world—of the type we witnessed in Christchurch on Friday which has killed at least 49 people so far, including 3 Bangladeshis and injured many more—as of going to print.
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Jashore DPEO's initiative exemplary
While the government primary school teachers have to go through a long arduous process to get their retirement benefits because of corruption and the slow pace of work at the relevant offices, one District Primary Education Officer (DPEO) of Jashore has set an example of efficiency.
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Laws alone cannot protect rivers
A picture published in this paper on March 14 depicts the Surma River in Sylhet city's Kazirbazar where garbage litters its banks. Regrettably, that is the state of most of the rivers in the country.
14 March 2019, 18:00 PM
No refugee camp can hold out much hope
The Rohingya lawyer Razia Sultana is dead right when she said that the nearly one million Rohingya refugees in camps inside Bangladesh have very little future.
14 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Forests are no one's property to destroy at will
Worrying developments have been reported in the remote forests of Bhola's Manpura Island where trees are being cut down indiscriminately to fuel brick kilns or for other purposes.
13 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Bank scams happen when regulator sleeps
The chief of Anti-Corruption Commission has come down hard on the role the central bank has played over the last several years when it comes to tackling graft in banks.
13 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Disasters waiting to happen
A picture published by this newspaper yesterday of rickety three-storey buildings on the banks of the Buriganga river in the capital exemplifies another disaster in the making.
12 March 2019, 18:00 PM