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
Torture of 10-year-old
Every aspect of the story of 10-year-old Sagor, published yesterday by this paper, horrifies.
21 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Glaring gross mismanagement
There is no doubt that Bangladesh has made some rapid strides to develop and improve its infrastructure in recent times,
20 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Lax wheat procurement drive!
The dilly dallying in the government programme to buy wheat from farmers in the district of Nilphamari is having ill effects.
20 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Six-year-old human hauler attendant!
A photograph of a young boy hanging on to a human hauler he works as an attendant of, published on the front page of this newspaper on Wednesday, shows perfectly the unfortunate plight of millions of children in our country.
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Hundreds of crores taka surcharge lie idle
The government slapped a levy of 1 percent surcharge on the sale of mobile phones and another 1 percent surcharge on the use of mobile phones last year.
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Bizarre excuse to not stop child marriages
Child marriage – despite the caveat in the new amendment of the law – remains illegal in the country. Last Friday, as eight under-age girls were about to be married off in Dinajpur, locals informed the local administration.
18 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Raintree hotel illegal
It took a sensational double-rape in a posh boutique hotel to wake Rajuk up from its slumber that Raintree hotel was operating, and that too illegally, in a residential area.
18 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Passing away of an exemplary diplomat
It is with deep sadness that we bid farewell to former foreign secretary and ambassador Faruq Ahmed Choudhury who breathed his last in the early hours yesterday.
17 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Jewellery industry and smuggled gold
The jewellery business in Bangladesh has reportedly been thriving despite there being no import of gold into the country through legal
17 May 2017, 18:00 PM
BNP's Vision 2030
The BNP has come out with a document that it calls Vision 2030. It is perhaps the first time that a major political party has revealed a...
16 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Doubling aid utilisation next fiscal
Finance Minister AMA Muhith last week disclosed that the government intends to utilise about USD 7.55 billion of foreign aid in fiscal 2017-18.
16 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Vested Property Return Act
When the Vested Property Return (Amendment) Act was passed in 2011 it came as a relief for the minority community of the county.
15 May 2017, 18:00 PM
No doctors in 63 jails!
We are utterly dumbfounded to know from a report in this daily, that as many as 63 jails across the country have no doctors at all to treat
15 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Anti-militancy operations
The security forces deserve credit for detecting and neutralising militants, particularly over the last one year after the Holey Artisan encounter.
14 May 2017, 18:05 PM
Illegal hoarding of medicine
How does medicine and medical equipment meant to be supplied to patients according to their needs end up in a pond?
14 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Monitoring cells for women and child repression cases
Alaudable provision of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, 2000 makes it mandatory for lower courts which are dealing with cases under the law to dispose with them within 180 days of framing charges.
13 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Women tortured and humiliated by land grabbers
Intimidation through violence to grab the land of the helpless is an age-old practice in our country where those with influence and power
13 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Toxic brick kilns damage crops
Toxic gas from brick kilns in Badalgachhi and Manda upazilas of Naogaon has damaged Irri-Boro paddy on 200 acres of land along with
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Injury Scheme for workers
The PM's announcement of along-term and sustainable 'Employment Injury Scheme' to ensure better benefits and support for workers is
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Public disposal of garbage
All the smoke and stench diffused from burning garbage on the side of the road is not only undesirable, but is harmful to public health. Why then is garbage being disposed like this? Aren't the authorities at all concerned about the consequences of this on public health?
10 May 2017, 18:00 PM