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
Bilateral instrument signed for repatriation
The foreign minister will hold a press briefing today on the MoU on Rohingya repatriation. This is our preliminary reaction to what is known so far.
24 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Conviction of 'Butcher of Bosnia'
The conviction of Ratko Mladic, the notorious Serb military commander known as 'Butcher of Bosnia', of genocide and crimes against humanity for orchestrating Europe's worst atrocity since World War II is a triumph of justice.
23 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Now BCL units in schools!
We are surprised to learn that Bangladesh Chhatra League is planning to form committees at the secondary school level. BCL leaders, after a meeting on Tuesday, said the objective behind the move is to spread the ideology of the party among the schoolchildren.
23 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Error-filled question papers
A look at the English-version primary terminal question papers for fifth graders for Bangladesh and Global Studies subject—which a news report published in this daily yesterday has revealed—confirms our worst fears about the state of education in the country.
22 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Bad loans getting out of hand
The banking sector's non-performing loan (NPL) ratio was 9.23 percent at the end of last year. This ratio currently stands at 10.67 percent as of September 2017.
22 November 2017, 18:00 PM
HC's order against holding deceased's body
The High Court on Sunday ordered hospitals and clinics not to hold any deceased's body to realise treatment costs. It also directed the health secretary and the director general of the Directorate General of Health Services to issue a
21 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Continue the diplomatic pressure on Myanmar
We welcome the call by the delegates at the 13th Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) to implement the Kofi Annan Commission recommendations and finalise the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Bangladesh and Myanmar that would put
21 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Children in hazardous work
It is a harsh truth that despite the government amending laws and signing the ILO Convention on worst forms of child labour, thousands of children are engaged in work that are hazardous to their physical and mental well-being and that deprive them of the basic right to education.
20 November 2017, 18:00 PM
A shining example
We are delighted to see that six youths who themselves were studying at different educational institutions in Chittagong, had the drive and determination to set up a school for underprivileged children
20 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Aniruddha returns
Aniruddha Roy, a businessman who went missing nearly three months ago has returned home. However, it would help everyone to know the identity of his 'benefactors' who took the trouble of dropping him home in the very early hours of the morning.
19 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Decay of Hatirjheel project
For several years now, the Hatirjheel project has been slowly declining in character from what was considered a classic example of environmental restoration to another urban wasteland.
19 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Getting close to USD 1 billion export target
Bangladeshi software developers are turning out to be quite adept at providing ICT-related services to cater to the growing export
18 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Intra-party rivalry and people's woes
Sometimes certain human activities defy logic, but dumping garbage on the street by one faction of a political party to foil the
18 November 2017, 18:00 PM
UNGA resolution on Rohingya crisis
It was long overdue, but we welcome the resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, which condemned the military operations in Myanmar's Rakhine state against the Rohingya minority community.
17 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Plundering trees from public farm
It is alarming that a public authority is least bothered about protecting a vast forest farm it owns in Rajshahi and equally hesitant to punish those who are destroying it, in spite of the well-known fact that thousands of trees from the farm have been plundered illegally.
17 November 2017, 18:00 PM
US position on Rohingya crisis
The US Secretary of State's comment that whatever is happening to the Rohingyas in Myanmar is not “ethnic cleansing,” despite mounting evidence to the contrary, is surprising.
16 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Food assistance for poor hampered
This year, the ultra poor are going to have a hard time. The many safety net programmes that involve low-cost food distribution are in a state of doldrums for a number of reasons. First, we suffered devastating floods.
16 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Low-speed vehicles on highways
Sadly, it seems that we have readily resigned to the fact that the highways in the country are used for all the wrong purposes.
15 November 2017, 18:00 PM
NCTB – a den of mismanagement
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), the graft watchdog, has done a study on the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NTCB) and had some damning things to say about the board.
15 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Another fresh Rohingya exodus?
The fact that the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) failed to pass a resolution and handed out merely a statement condemning atrocities committed against the Rohingya people has apparently emboldened the Myanmar security forces.
14 November 2017, 18:00 PM