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
Back from the brink
With the return of the Indian pilot so soon after his capture—a gesture by Pakistan that was prudent, timely and diplomatic, and for which the Pakistani PM deserves credit—the heightened state of tension between the two countries has begun to de-escalate, for the time being at least.
2 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Prepare hospitals to tackle disaster situations
The recent incident of fire at Suhrawardy hospital has once again exposed the fact that our hospitals are not at all prepared to handle any emergency and post-emergency situation such as fire or earthquake.
1 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Absence of voters speaks volumes
The extraordinarily low turn-out of voters during the Dhaka North City Corporation election speaks volumes about the general apathy that has developed in people regarding the electoral process.
1 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Ensure quality education
The World Bank recently unveiled a report titled “Learning to Realise Education's Promise” and in it we find that Bangladesh spends less than the South Asian average on education. Quality education remains a major concern and graduates from the schooling system are lacking in skills to read, write and do basic mathematics.
28 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Deprived of the right to water
A report published in this daily on February 27 lays bare the miserable conditions that indigenous communities living in and around Jogendra Tangchangya Para of Bandarban's Alikadam upazila are grappling with.
28 February 2019, 18:00 PM
War cannot be the option
This is for the first time since 1971 that the air force of one of the two neighbours—India and Pakistan—has crossed the international border and launched strikes on the other's territory.
27 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Shift dangerous chemicals from Old Dhaka immediately
A roundtable organised by The Daily Star titled “Chawkbazar Tragedy: Way Forward” on February 26 brought together experts, chemical importers and traders, and other stakeholders to discuss the imperatives in the aftermath of the Chawkbazar fire.
27 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Ripping off patients at Pangu Hospital
It is very unfortunate that the hospital staff are extorting poor patients at the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (Nitor), popularly known as Pangu Hospital, for getting a plaster or dressing.
26 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Are our workers' rights so cheap?
A joint publication brought out by Oxfam, Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies (BILS) and Institute for Workers and Trade Unions in Vietnam paints a dismal picture of workers in Bangladeshi factories where Australian fashion brands source their apparels from.
26 February 2019, 18:00 PM
A serious catastrophe averted
The nation can breathe a sigh of relief. Luckily, the plot to hijack the Dubai-bound Biman flight on Sunday night was foiled and the armed man, who boarded the plane in Dhaka, was quickly neutralised without loss of life in a commando operation after the plane made an emergency landing in Chattogram.
25 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Delays and red-tape at what cost?
Nine years after it was decided to relocate four types of industries—chemical, plastic, printing and light electronics—from Old Dhaka, the projects are still in their preliminary phases as this newspaper reported yesterday.
25 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Employing the youth, key to achieving SDGs
At a discussion on SDG implementation, speakers said it will be difficult for Bangladesh to achieve the set goals without creating jobs for the unemployed youth, and we agree with this assessment.
24 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Dismal state of project implementation
It is astonishing that the Sylhet-Tamabil- Jaflong road project used less than four percent of the budget in the two years since it was started. It is a four-year project taken up in 2017 and is supposed to be completed in 2021.
24 February 2019, 18:00 PM
India and Pakistan, hold your fire
It is with great concern that we are witnessing a dangerous escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan after the deadly Pulwama attack, which claimed the lives of more than 40 Indian security personnel in the Indian-controlled Kashmir.
23 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Taking responsibility for Chawkbazar inferno
We are glad that Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has publicly stated that the government cannot avoid responsibility for the Chawkbazar tragedy. It is a refreshing change from what we usually witness in the aftermath of such incidents.
23 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Myanmar's attempt to whitewash the Rohingya genocide
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on February 19, in an interview with the Dubai-based Khaleej Times, expressed her dismay that Myanmar had failed to create a condition conducive to the Rohingya repatriation.
22 February 2019, 18:00 PM
What happened to recommendations after Nimtoli?
That ordinary people's life count for very little in the running of the affairs of the state has been proved once again by the recent tragedy.
22 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Who bears responsibility for these deaths?
Only two days ago, this paper ran an editorial on how chemical warehouses continue to operate in old Dhaka. By the government's own
21 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Hapless slum dwellers with nowhere to go
It is unthinkable that 10,000 people should become homeless overnight as we saw happen with the residents of Dhaka's Bhasantek slum this week. An eviction drive launched by the National Housing Authority (NHA) on Tuesday has left thousands of people without a home—with nowhere to go.
21 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Remove barriers to foreign investment
Analysts at a seminar titled “Lack of corporate governance is the biggest barrier in Bangladesh for Japanese investors”, on February 19, stated that poor corporate governance and lack of quality manpower were the two major impediments holding back foreign direct investment (FDI) in Bangladesh.
20 February 2019, 18:00 PM