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
It serves the party in power, not justice
We are deeply disappointed by the House's passing of the Law and Order Disruption (Speedy Trial Amendment) Bill, 2018 that has raised the jail term to seven years from five.
13 February 2018, 18:00 PM
What type of person beats up a teacher?
It appears that assaulting teachers is becoming a way of life with some people.
13 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Finding a workable solution
The decision to suspend Internet services to tackle question paper leaks, and its subsequent withdrawal, is part of a pattern that has frequently characterised government responses to problematic developments in the public sphere.
12 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Capital punishment for Rupa's rapists
Last year, on August 25, 27-year-old Rupa Khatun was brutally gang-raped and murdered on a moving bus in Tangail.
12 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Why is the probe committee not working?
We find it hard to drive away our frustration over the government's failure to stop the question paper leaks of this year's SSC exams, as all the question papers of SSC exams held so far have been leaked.
11 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Burying their crime under the sand
On February 3 this paper published a picture of hundreds of bags filled with black engine oil covering large portions of the sandy bank of the Karnaphuli river in Chittagong.
11 February 2018, 18:00 PM
UK's endorsement should be followed by others
We welcome the news of an imminent lift of UK's ban on air cargo from Dhaka to London imposed two years ago.
10 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Myanmar govt has nowhere to hide
The recent Reuters report on the mass execution of 10 Rohingya men on September 2, 2017 in Inn Din village of Myanmar's Rakhine State is groundbreaking for many reasons.
10 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Private healthcare in a sorry state
Private healthcare was introduced partly to take the pressure off public hospitals struggling with a huge number of patients and stem the flow of those going abroad for treatment, depriving the country of sizable revenue.
9 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Rohingya cleansing continues
That repatriation of the Rohingya refugees will be meaningless without creating a favourable environment for their return and proper resettlement is beginning to be clear.
9 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Khaleda's sentencing
The judgment in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case was delivered yesterday and the former prime minister was sentenced to five years in
8 February 2018, 18:00 PM
DU's steady fall from grace
There was a time when Dhaka University was lauded as “Oxford of the East” due to the standard of its faculty and quality of its education.
8 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Solar brings more than light
Solar is one area of electrification where Bangladesh has done very well.
7 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Rohingya crisis may cause regional conflict
The recent concern expressed by the UN human rights chief—that Myanmar's persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority has the potential to spark regional conflict should be taken seriously by the international community and especially the countries in this region.
7 February 2018, 18:00 PM
How about a VIP world?
It is bad enough, as it is, for the ordinary citizens to be ignored, shuffled around and made to wait for hours with closed roads and clogged traffic.
6 February 2018, 18:00 PM
No quarter being given to opposition
As we approach February 8, we find a toughening of government's position on the largest opposition party.
6 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Double victimisation of a rape survivor!
There cannot be a more distressing situation than a rape victim finding herself in a situation of double jeopardy, being wronged twice.
5 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Santals' demand for Roman script
Perhaps no other nation can claim to have sacrificed so much as the Bangladeshis, who sacrificed their lives for their mother language.
5 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Question leak an ingrained malady
It may be premature to talk about short- or long-term cure for a malady that has become entrenched in our psyche when we cannot see any worthwhile measure at all to combat this menace.
4 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Finance minister's honest observation
We are greatly heartened by the finance minister's bold and timely (some may say very late) observation that government interference is responsible for the rise in the amount of classified loans ...
4 February 2018, 18:00 PM