In our country where the national average for default on loans is around 10 percent, women entrepreneurs default less than 1 percent.

Shanu Miah, a middle-aged man, fell to death in an open box culvert in the Paltan area this week.

As we observed International Women's Day yesterday, it was very inspiring to find a news report on a woman police officer take it upon

A recent household survey conducted by Oxfam among 330 households in four districts of the country reveals that forty-nine percent of women had not given consent to their parents to go ahead with their marriages.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), pollution in its many manifestations is killing some 280,000 children in Bangladesh annually.

It is perhaps the worst injustice when parents of a slain child have to suffer the agony of knowing that the murderers are allowed to walk freely because they have the protection of powerful individuals.

It is unsettling to note that classes for students of a primary school in Jhalakathi are being conducted on the school veranda for the last two years because of the dilapidated condition of their classrooms.

At the same time, the administration has not been able to give any credible explanation for the large number of people killed under questionable circumstances, unlawful detentions, and forced disappearances that have been reported. Oftentimes, it has gone so far as to even deny the existence of such unlawful activities, accusing those missing of 'hiding', while dismissing concerns regarding their safety as expressed by their relatives.

Is it any wonder that with more than a million vehicles on the roads being driven by people without valid license or no license at all, 64 people are killed every day on the roads?

The UN official stated that the “systematic, structural, and institutional discrimination in policy, law and practice, as well as the long-standing persecution, against the Rohingya and other minorities in Rakhine State” calls for the COI, which is the highest-level probe body of the UN.

We are stunned as to how planners of the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate failed to plan for a desalinisation facility when designing the

The High Court's order to the governor of the Bangladesh Bank (BB), to submit a list of business entities and individuals whose loans were waived...

At the opening of the 10th International Poultry Show and Seminar in Dhaka, poultry entrepreneurs stated that Tk. 30,000 crore was needed to meet the increased demand for chicken meat and eggs by 2021.

In an exemplary show of timely disposal of a case, a Rangpur court on February 28 awarded death penalties to five militants who were

What has the nearly two-day long transport strike achieved except subjecting the people to unmitigated suffering? It has wreaked havoc

The sheer number of risky, illegal chemical factories in Old Dhaka has turned the place into a ticking time bomb.

For almost all people who have dealings with land, the visit to the land office can be daunting, because it often entails being swamped by brokers who promise the moon in return for a 'small fee', which is of course, speed money.

The repeated attempts of the local unit of the ruling party to influence and obstruct the recruitment process at Rajshahi University (RU) is deplorable.

Much to the public's dismay, the parliament has passed the Child Marriage Restraint Act-2017 with a very significant proviso – special circumstances -- that allows a boy or a girl to get married before reaching the minimum age limit.

Some pedestrians appear to be under the impression that they are impervious to mishaps or accidents. This behaviour is at worst foolish and at best criminal as it puts the lives of the others also in jeopardy.