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
Attack on Fulbaria protestors
We are seeing a dangerous trend of using coercive means by the law enforcing agencies in handling any form of protest instead
28 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Special Provision in anti-child marriage law disastrous
It is without a doubt that the recently Cabinet-approved provision in the proposed Child Marraiage Restraint Act, that allows
28 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Why gag voice calls that are legal?
We are bewildered by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission's announcement that it is going to develop guidelines for using communication applications like WhatsApp, Viber, WeChat and Imo, which have allowed people to make calls for free as long as there was Internet connection.
27 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Passing of a world icon
In the death of Fidel Castro, we see the passing away of the last of the 20th century revolutionary and idealist.
27 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Uber provides an essential service
We are surprised to see the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) take such a tough stand against the on-demand transport service Uber.
26 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Making money from the tragedy of Rohingyas
It is despicable when some unscrupulous, greedy men turn the plight of people into a business for making money.
26 November 2016, 18:00 PM
World's silence perpetuates genocide
One needs only to wonder what horrific extremities of persecution and hardship can push people to flee their homelands, to try every inconceivable way to be allowed on other shores.
25 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Airport cargo handling still a problem
Space constraints, scarcity of manpower, inefficient ground handling equipment and incidents of theft are the nagging problems associated with the cargo village at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
25 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Our women police
We can be rightly proud of the fact that Bangladesh is perhaps one of the first countries in the region to induct women in the police when the initial recruitment started in 1974.
24 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Stop incarcerating delinquent children
The National Human Rights Commissioner's statement on how we are handling children accused of having committed a crime should be taken into cognisance.
24 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Deadly factory fire
A fire that broke out at a gas lighter factory in Ashulia on November 22 that seriously injured 26 people, mostly women and children, begs some hard questions to be asked.
23 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Reign in errant BCL cadres
Some Bangladesh Chhatra League men's continuing heavy handedness, we believe, is a direct result of the impunity being enjoyed by the errant party cadres.
23 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Invisible felons
The court appearance and subsequent bail of two former Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) cadres accused of brandishing and using firearms in an incident in Dhaka on October 27 is indeed a shocker to all.
22 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Youth builds solar-powered tricycle
Yousuf Sardar is a young electrician from Chandpur district who spent six months and Tk 17,000 to build a tricycle that runs on solar power.
22 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Visa for men, only if women go
It is with bewilderment and disappointment that we have learnt from this paper that the Saudi Arabian embassy in Dhaka is refusing to issue visas for male migrant workers because recruiting agencies are not sending enough female migrant workers.
21 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Missing for 38 days!
We are shocked at the disappearance of Dr Muhammed Iqbal Mahmud, a medical officer of the Directorate General of Health Services, who was abducted 38 days ago from the heart of the capital by a gang of people riding a microbus.
21 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Expatriate Bangladeshis without passport
The irregularities and corruption that allegedly vex the passport sector have reached a new level with about 50,000 expat Bangladeshis in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Malaysia unable to get machine readable passports (MRP) although they paid the requisite fees more than a year ago.
20 November 2016, 18:10 PM
Justice for a murdered freedom fighter
Abdus Salam Khan, a freedom fighter, who not only fought to give this country freedom, but had also continued to fight for social justice and simply provide people with a ray of hope, was brutally murdered recently.
20 November 2016, 18:05 PM
Election Commission
A new EC is due in the next two months and a national election in the next two years. Regrettably, the current EC has not acquitted itself
19 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Cops mug egg traders!
This paper's report of two policemen being caught while mugging an egg trader, is an appalling reminder of the extent to which some
19 November 2016, 18:00 PM