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 remarkable win for the Tigers
It was unbelievable cricket that we watched with bated breath on Friday as the Bangladesh cricket team faced off with New Zealand in
10 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Why VAT on Albumin?
We are taken aback to learn that 15 percent VAT has been proposed on albumin which is considered to be a life saving drug for patients suffering from serious kidney and liver problems.
9 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Ensuring rights of female migrant workers
According to the Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment, around 1.18 lakh women went abroad seeking employment in 2016.
9 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Mismatch in fund allocation and utilisation
Every year the government misses the mark in utilising what it allocates into the annual development programme (ADP).
8 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Three workers fall to their death
The horrific death of three construction workers in Siddheswari area on Tuesday when they fell from an under-construction building is a
8 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Retaining EU GSP facilities
The European Union (EU) letter to the government threatening removal of GSP facilities if there is no tangible progress on labour rights comes in the heels of ban on cargo flights out of Bangladesh.
7 June 2017, 18:00 PM
National Safe Roads Day
On June 5, the cabinet approved a proposal to declare October 22 as National Safe Roads Day.
7 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Air cargo to EU banned
The European Union (EU) has just put Bangladesh on the list of high-risk countries in terms of operating cargo services by air and sea to the EU countries.
6 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Making solar power more expensive!
It comes as a shock that the government has proposed an import duty on solar panels in this year's budget.
6 June 2017, 18:00 PM
World Environment Day
We observed the World Environment Day yesterday in the backdrop of the United States withdrawing from the Paris agreement, a huge disappointment worldwide.
5 June 2017, 18:00 PM
The trauma of Longadu
Four days on, majority of the victims of Longadu attack have not yet come back to their home. Fear of further attacks is keeping them
5 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Why are citizens paying so much more?
And it makes even less sense to now charge the same taxpayers' higher prices so that the BPC can deposit the subsidy amount to the government. What good is it to have citizens pay double and have the money sitting around in the government's coffers?
4 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Cleaning clogged canals
A picture carried in an inside page of this paper showing an excavator cleaning a clogged canal -- the Dholiakhal, in the capital city...
4 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Attack on Chakma community in Rangamati
Last Friday, pictures circulating on social media showed a grim reality: families from the Chakma community fleeing to safety with what little they could carry of their possessions while their houses went up in flames.
3 June 2017, 18:00 PM
The ghosts of Nimtoli
Seven years have elapsed since a deadly fire ripped through Old Dhaka's Nimtoli that claimed the lives of 124, mostly women and children, and injured a further 200.
3 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Water crisis in the city
Residents of Banasree, Kaderabad Housing, Katasur, Dakshin Khan, Kalshi Mirpur – to name just a few areas – have been affected. According to officials, the crisis has been due to load shedding, malfunction of deep tube wells and ground water depletion: nothing that could not have been predicted.
2 June 2017, 18:05 PM
Big budget big deficit
Big budget is inevitable for a developing country, but when the revenue earning is heavily reliant on value added tax and
2 June 2017, 18:00 PM
A big budget
The 46th annual budget of Tk 4 trillion has been placed in the House by the finance minister and this is our preliminary reaction to it.
1 June 2017, 18:05 PM
Carnage in Kabul
We are sickened by yet another terrorist attack, this time in Kabul, with a bomb blast that ripped through the city's diplomatic quarter,
1 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Over-allocation of resources in mega-projects
Awhopping one-fifth of the forthcoming fiscal year's total development budget has been set aside for six fast-track projects. That is, out
31 May 2017, 18:10 PM