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
A serious threat to public health
The government's ban on import and sale of meat and bone meal (MBM), a kind of poultry feed, is quite alarming for a number of reasons, including the fact that MBM poses a major public health risk.
21 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Powerless against sand lifters
It is unthinkable that illegal sand sifters have the gall to physically attack an assistant commissioner (land) and other officials.
20 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Make footpaths user-friendly for the visually impaired
It is very unfortunate that the initiative taken by the two city corporations of Dhaka to install tactile tiles on footpaths to facilitate the movement of physically challenged people has failed to bring any positive results.
20 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Strictly enforce medical waste management
One needs hardly restate the importance of proper medical waste management (MWM). Yet apparently, this matter of public health has not gotten the attention it deserves from the related quarters.
19 January 2019, 18:00 PM
State must show firmer commitment
In the first 18 days of this year alone, 23 incidents of rape and attempted rape were reported in a leading Bangla daily.
19 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Ensure equal pay for equal work
While more and more women have been entering the job market every year—both formal and informal—they are still facing serious wage discrimination.
18 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Centralising decision-making is unhelpful
The rationale being used by a number of privately-owned banks to bring back an archaic management practice, i.e. centralising all decisions and stripping branches of that crucial role that made banking easy for customers is that it will stop the flood of nonperforming loans (NPLs) that has engulfed the banking sector.
18 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Serious breach of port and national security
The fact that a gang comprising clearing and forwarding (C&F) agents and importers have been able to clear some 4,000 consignments
17 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Now, Rohingyas from India
Since the beginning of the year, no less than 1,300 Rohingya Muslims crossed the border into Bangladesh from India, where many of
17 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Innocent workers must not be victimised
In the aftermath of the violent protests that engulfed the garments factories in Ashulia and Savar industrial zones, the police have filed cases against 215 individuals and a further 1,000 unnamed garment workers on charges of vandalism and looting and reportedly more than 800 workers have been laid off.
16 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Alarming suicide rate at public universities
In an alarming development reported by The Daily Star on Wednesday, the suicide rate at public universities has shown a dramatic upward trend, with a reported case of 19 deaths in five universities last year.
16 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Traffic management is not a short-term affair
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) is planning to include school and college students as volunteers in the fortnightly traffic programme that started on January 15.
15 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Make Ducsu centre of all campus activities
It is good to learn that the DU authorities are hoping to hold the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) election by March 31 this year.
15 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Crack down on illegal dredging
How is it that despite there being a law making extraction of sand from riverbeds a punishable offense, influential and politically connected individuals continue to do so, with complete immunity?
14 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Appalling treatment of migrant worker in Malaysia
The treatment meted out by the Malaysian immigration police to a Bangladeshi worker who has been working legally in the country is simply unacceptable.
14 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Hefazat chief's comment unacceptable
We take serious issue with the comments of the chief of Hefazat-e-Islam (HI), that girls should at most attend school up to class IV or V, since educated girls are prone to be “disobedient”. Not only that, he made those present at the assemblage take a vow to comply with his views.
13 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Two billion jobs to be at risk by 2030
With rapid technological advancement and the ever-increasing digitisation of various industries, a large number of expatriate workers employed in blue-collar jobs may have to return home by 2030 due to job displacement.
13 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Who is maintaining Dhaka's cleanliness?
The piling of garbage under the Mouchak flyover is another example of the sorry state of management plaguing Dhaka city.
12 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Myanmar's latest ploy to push out Rohingyas
After forcing almost a million Rohingyas to flee from their homes and take shelter in Bangladesh, Myanmar is now taking steps to construct a concrete structure in the no-man's land on its border with Bangladesh in Bandarban's Ghumdhum area.
12 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Extrajudicial killings undermine the legal system
According to a local rights organisation, extrajudicial killings crested in the outgoing year, the highest number in our history. The spike can be attributed to the government's anti-drug drives
11 January 2019, 18:00 PM