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
Little being done to reduce inequality
As per Oxfam's latest “Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index”, Bangladesh ranked 148 among 157 (where a lower number means better performance) countries surveyed.
10 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Need to invest in mental health
There is no denying the importance of the awareness of mental illness as a growing health concern in Bangladesh.
10 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Six months for release order to reach jail?
We really do not know what to say about the manner in which an innocent man, who passed 13 long years in Khulna jail on death row, died without seeing his family. The High Court declared Obaid innocent six months ago, by which time he was fighting a losing battle against colon cancer.
9 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Averting a global climate chaos
The just-released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report should serve as a clear warning to world leaders that time is fast running out in the fight against global warming.
9 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Crisis of doctors at upazila hospitals
We thank the prime minister for highlighting a major concern in the healthcare sector at a physicians' conference recently: absence of
8 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Shrinking Saudi job market
According to Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) statistics, the number of Bangladeshi workers going to Saudi
8 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Peace Prize for activists against sexual violence
The past one year or so has been an important one in confronting the systemic instances of sexual violence that women face—be it in conflict zones, where rape continues to be used as a weapon of war, or in everyday lives.
7 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Transport owners holding people hostage
The Bangladesh Goods Transport Owners Workers United Association's decision to abstain from work until their seven-point demands are met, which includes making changes to the Road Transport Act-2018, is shocking.
7 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Threat of militancy persists
After a brief hibernation, terrorism tried to rear its ugly head, again. On Friday, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) carried out an operation targeting a house in Mirsarai, Chittagong.
6 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Impending Aedes outbreak in the city
Officials from the directorate of health are raising the alarm on a spike of dengue cases in the city.
6 October 2018, 18:00 PM
The ugly business of posters
As election season is on full swing we the ordinary citizens have to bear with the eyesores that are the thousands of posters plastered on every wall, bridge, letter box, lamppost etc.
5 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Another solar success!
We applaud Sarishabari Sales and Distribution Division of Power Development Board (PDB) for adopting the on-grid solar plant as an alternate means of producing electricity.
5 October 2018, 18:00 PM
A strange case of justice!
The strange case of a teacher punishing five students in Thakurgaon for saving a girl from harassment is but a reflection of the general fascination with punishment as a disciplining
4 October 2018, 18:00 PM
A third of the people financially excluded
Bank Asia and the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute (WSBI) recently hosted a three-day event to share ideas on how banks and other financial institutions may bring more than
4 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Bring those responsible for violence to justice
They have urged the Myanmar government to start the process of voluntary repatriation and give the independent inquiry commission, established by the Myanmar government, a full mandate to probe and hold the people responsible fully accountable for the crimes committed against the Rohingyas.
3 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Growing worries on external debt
The World Bank (WB) invited two economists, Ahsan H Mansur and Hossain Zillur Rahman who head the Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh, and Power and Participation Research Centre respectively,
3 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Clampdown on the opposition
We are quite flabbergasted by the volley of cases filed against senior leaders and activists of BNP right after the party staged a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on Monday.
2 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Unending disorder on Dhaka roads
The police have just wrapped up a month-long traffic campaign in the capital city and nothing much has changed when it comes to the mentality of both drivers and pedestrians with regards to obeying rules of the road.
2 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Our sympathies with Indonesia's earthquake victims
We are deeply saddened to learn of the huge death toll—which has passed 840—brought about by the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
1 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Participation is a precondition for good election
People wish to see a free, fair and healthy election. And we think this is also what the government and the ruling party would like to see. This can only happen if there is unhindered participation of all parties.
1 October 2018, 18:00 PM