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
The eternal flame of Ekushey
As we observe the historic occasion when some valiant souls laid down their lives to establish the right of our mother tongue on this day in 1952
20 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Utter disrespect for the dead
It is with shock and disbelief that we are informed through a news report that 31 bodies of premature babies were found in a dustbin of Sher-e-Bangla Medical College in Barishal.
19 February 2019, 18:00 PM
New banks to join saturated market
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has given approval for three new banks to be floated at a time when the banking sector is both saturated and stressed due to nonperforming loans (NPLs) reaching dangerous levels.
19 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Another committee for road safety
Incredulously, the very person whose plainly insensitive comments had enraged students and sparked off mass demonstration in demand of road safety last year, has now been made the head of a 15-member committee on road safety.
18 February 2019, 18:00 PM
A disaster waiting to happen
It is extremely worrying that chemical warehouses continue to operate in Old Dhaka, which means that we have failed to draw lessons from the Nimtoli fire in 2010 that killed 123 people.
18 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Surrender of yaba dealers
The government has been taking various measures to tackle the scourge of yaba in the country, some of which exceeded the bounds of legality.
17 February 2019, 18:00 PM
No gas supply, no prior warnings
It is reprehensible that some 6-7 lakh people in Dhaka had to suffer from complete or partial lack of gas supply without any warning whatsoever from the authorities.
17 February 2019, 18:00 PM
The beacons of light in our nation-building
It is The Daily Star's privilege to honour two teachers, Satwajit Biswas and Taherul Islam, who have stood out as beacons of light in their dedicated service to education.
16 February 2019, 18:00 PM
It's time for Jamaat's mea culpa
A top-ranking leader of Jamaat has tendered his resignation after a very long association with the party.
16 February 2019, 18:00 PM
A close call for Suhrawardy Hospital
On February 14, a massive fire broke out at the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital, one of the major public hospitals in the country, leaving hundreds of patients, with many critically ill, under the open sky in dire situations for hours before they were transferred to other government hospitals.
15 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Minister's admission of failure is not enough
Two consistent features of the Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader's public statements in recent years have been his admission of failure and his pledge to bring discipline in the transport sector, neither of which, unfortunately, has brought us any closer to the promised safety on our roads.
15 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Ducsu election should set an example
We are finally on the verge of witnessing an election of the Dhaka University's Ducsu (Dhaka University Central Students' Union), which would be the first democratic exercise of the iconic student body in nearly three decades.
14 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Brick kilns are major polluters
A five-year survey by the Department of Environment (DoE) on the quality of air in seven major cities has found that 50 percent of the
14 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Can our war on drugs be won?
Due to the law enforcement agencies' heightened vigilance on yaba trafficking, smugglers and peddlers are now going to great lengths to smuggle yaba across the country. As reported by this newspaper, traffickers are now using air routes.
13 February 2019, 18:00 PM
State must protect minorities from zealots
The attack on four houses of Ahmadiyya Muslims by supporters of three Islamist organisations in Ahmednagar village of Panchagarh Sadar upazila on February 12 reminds us, once again, that the scourge of communalism is very much present in our society.
13 February 2019, 18:00 PM
His CBA status gave him undue privilege
The story of a class III employee of Bangladesh Power Development Board (PDB) using an SUV he was not entitled to for 10 years, is quite surprising. It is hard to believe that such misuse of a government office car could go on for 10 long years without his supervisors knowing.
12 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Untreated industrial effluents spell doom
A recent study by Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) paints a gloomy picture of the state of water bodies in the country.
12 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Spend on education, health and social welfare
Despite Bangladesh's remarkable economic development gains, the country's performance in some socio-economic indicators is far from ideal. While we have had public investment in development projects, the same priority needs to be shown towards education, healthcare and social protection.
11 February 2019, 18:00 PM
A public health threat of epic proportions
In yet another report that depicts the sorry state of food quality in the country, it was learnt that raw cow milk contains unusually high levels of pesticide, antibiotic and bacteria, according to a study conducted by the National Food Safety Laboratory of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
11 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Was it Vitamin A that made the infants sick?
We are deeply concerned about the report of a 16-month-old boy dying and several hundred children falling sick in Jamalpur Upazila allegedly after taking Vitamin A capsules during the latest Vitamin A Plus Campaign.
10 February 2019, 18:00 PM