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
Twin foot bridges
The Dhaka Chittagong highway has been expanded from 2-lane to 4, but the pedestrian-crossing bridge near Dania College in Jatrabari was constructed before the expansion.
17 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Killings of Bangladeshis in US
Two Bangladeshi expatriates, an Imam and his assistant, were killed by an assailant outside a mosque in Queens in New York City on August 15.
16 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Good yield of jute
We are heartened by the news of a good yield of jute and also of the farmers receiving remunerative prices this year.
16 August 2016, 18:00 PM
The menace of overloaded vehicles
It is indeed disheartening to note that the plying of overloaded vehicles in the highways and over the bridges have been going on unabated right under the nose of the law enforcers.
15 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Passport forgery
The experience of a woman, who found when trying to collect her machine readable passport that someone else had fraudulently had
15 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Payra seaport
The inauguration of Payra seaport by the prime minster signals a stepped-up effort by the government to provide the country with much needed infrastructure.
14 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Tribute to Bangabandhu
We mourn this day as we have done since that dark night of 15th August forty one years ago, when Bangabandhu along with all but two of his family members were brutally killed. It was a day when the spirit of the nation was snatched from its body.
14 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Desperate plea of tea garden workers
In the midst of severe food shortage and being denied of their due wages for 15 weeks straight, workers of Baikunthapur tea
13 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Saudi ban on recruitment goes
After a seven year hiatus, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has finally lifted the ban on recruiting male Bangladeshi workers.
13 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Travails of a freedom fighter
Had it not been for his becoming a witness in the trials of the war criminals we might not ever have come to know of Miron Sheik.
12 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Relocation of educational institutions in DRA
Alarge number of educational institutions in Dhanmondi Residential Area (DRA) have been given notice to shift elsewhere by the Dhaka South City Corporation.
12 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Hiking tuition fees
We fail to understand why the ministry of education has suggested that private educational institutions whether under Monthly Pay Order
11 August 2016, 18:00 PM
We need all the support
We reiterate the business community's call to foreign friends and development partners for continued support in our journey to
11 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Bangladeshi workers left in limbo in Afghanistan
Twenty-Five Bangladeshis were lured with offers of fat salaries by an Indian national who had worked for 6 years in different re-rolling mills in Bangladesh.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Discrimination and marginalisation of ethnic minorities
The constitution of Bangladesh guarantees equal rights for all, but in reality particular communities, especially the ethnic minorities in Bangladesh, are discriminated against and continually pushed to increasing marginalisation.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Exposed live wires on the roads
Last year a woman and a child died due to electrocution when a puddle on the road came in contact with an exposed live wire during rain.
9 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Lax handling in jail of high risk prisoners
That the high-risk prisoners should be allowed to meet with relatives in violation of the jail code and without ascertaining the veracity of the relationship with the prisoners is surprising.
9 August 2016, 18:00 PM
TIB report on ACC
Transparency International report, according to which a meagre 37 percent of the accused are convicted in graft cases, is disappointing.
8 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Another hike unjustified
With the public hearing regarding another round of gas price increase underway, businesses have already expressed their concerns about its possible impacts.
8 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Schools on boats
Refusing to bow down to the forces of nature, twenty two boats turned into schools, libraries and computer labs are moving across the Chalan Beel region, a large wetland in Bangladesh, illuminating the lives of many impoverished children with the light of education.
7 August 2016, 18:00 PM