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
Abductors on the prowl
The Comilla North AL president of the party was picked up on Friday from Lalmatia in broad daylight as he was returning from Jumma prayers.
28 July 2018, 18:00 PM
17th Bangladesh Business Awards
The Bangladesh Business Awards, jointly organised by DHL and The Daily Star, stepped into its 17th year on July 27 when it recognised the outstanding contributions of two companies and two individuals to the country's economy and development.
28 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Millions in backlog cases
We appreciate the comments made by Law Minister Anisul Huq recently that a high-powered committee will be set up to expedite the disposal of some 3.4 million cases stuck in the pipeline. We understand this committee will help investigators produce witnesses and complete investigations at shortened periods of time.
27 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Land ports money vending machines?
A report by this newspaper on malpractices at the Benapole international passenger terminal shows how a customs system bedevilled by corruption and mismanagement is holding travellers hostage.
27 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Severe infringement of election code
The increasing number of election code violations we have seen in the campaigning of the three upcoming city elections is alarming. In most cases, the EC has simply sent show-cause notices to the accused, falling short of investigating the allegations and slapping fines or taking strict actions against the perpetrator.
26 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Senseless killing of NSU student
The supervisor of the bus on which NSU student Saidur Rahman Payel was travelling has confessed to helping the driver to throw the unconscious young man into a canal.
26 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Medical establishments must adhere to rules
We welcome the High Court (HC) directive that all private clinics, hospitals and diagnostic centres must put on public display the list of charges for various services they provide.
25 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Strict implementation of law can stop stalking
Not a day goes by without a news report of rape, stalking and violence against women and children in the media. In the latest incident that was reported in this daily yesterday, a girl in Nilphamari's Dimla upazila was brutally attacked by her stalker and his accomplices on her way to college.
25 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Funding in driblets won't help
Although this year's development budget is deemed to be the most ambitious till date, we are perplexed by the allocation of Tk 1 lakh each to 64 projects, many of which are in advanced stages of completion, and have been so for some time.
24 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Highways are not parking-lots!
A photograph published by this newspaper yesterday of the Dhaka-Chittagong highway is extremely revealing of the general state of our highways. The photograph shows hundreds of private trucks left parked on the highway, reducing the Dhaka-Chittagong highway to nearly a single lane.
24 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Monitor cattle fattening
With Eid-ul-Azha around the corner, the Poribesh Bachao Andolon (Poba) has recently urged the government to monitor how cattle is being reared and fattened in the farms in the country.
23 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Attack inside court premises
The attack on Mahmudur Rahman, acting editor of a Bengali daily, inside the court premises in Kushtia, on July 22, is shocking and disturbing, to say the least.
23 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Hostage to the greed of a few
An unscrupulous nexus of a few corrupt persons in the Institute of Public Health (IPH) has caused scarcity of saline and other key medical supplies in the public hospitals, and there are more than 600 of them in the country, forcing those patients, who are supposed to get this free of cost, to buy from pharmacies outside.
22 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Why the delay in implementation?
Eight years have passed since the education ministry had in principle decided to introduce a uniform or cluster system for university admission, yet, the government has failed to implement the system still after all these years.
22 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Candidates' disregard for election rules
We read with concern a report by this newspaper that major mayoral candidates in the upcoming city corporation elections are failing to comply with election rules.
21 July 2018, 18:00 PM
The case of the missing coal!
About 1.42 lakh tonnes of coal with a value of Tk 227 crore has disappeared from Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Ltd (BCMCL).
21 July 2018, 18:00 PM
HSC results—sliding pass rate
While the pass rate is not necessarily the only index of the level of knowledge of the students and the standard of education at secondary and higher secondary levels, it is admittedly a very important indicator of the quality of the pupils that go through these exams.
20 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Pillows for prison inmates
It is astonishing that it took 230 years for our jail authorities to introduce cotton-pillows for prison inmates. That speaks volume about how dangerously punitive our prison system is.
20 July 2018, 18:00 PM
A model rural primary school
At a time when our education system is rife with problems, from quality and commitment of teachers to the method of teaching-learning
19 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Plea of clerical error lacks credibility
The official refrain about the alleged adulteration of gold deposits in the vaults of the central bank that it is a mere clerical error lacks
19 July 2018, 18:00 PM