It was a welcome sight to see the Dhaka South City Corporation's roadside waste bins that were installed right before Pahela Baishakh this

The confusion over the death count in road crashes during Eid holidays is unwarranted.

We rejoice at the failure of the attempted coup in Turkey, thwarted with the help of the people, the first of its kind perhaps in recent times when the armed coup-makers submitted to an unarmed public.

Two Sunderbans-based robber gangs, which had been robbing fishermen and honey collectors and kidnapping them for ransom

The phenomenon of extremism that is on the rise in the country requires a coordinated effort of all sections of society to see an end of this peril. And in the aftermath of the attack on Holey Artisan Bakery and the subsequent attack in Kishoreganj, all concerned must come together to fight this scourge in a manner coordinated by one central authority.

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has just released a 68-page report titled “I was sold” that outlines the near-slavery conditions for migrant domestic workers in Oman.

We condemn this horrifying and utterly mindless act of terror that has been unleashed on the citizens of France...

Every school child learns how trees get their nutrients from the soil and send it to the leaves through the bark in order to make their food.

The autopsies of the victims of the Gulshan café attack reveal the ineffable cruelty with which the assailants killed the unfortunate people.

The loss of valuable human lives in road crashes is not only tragic but also unacceptable. In this column we have written umpteen times on the alarming number of road accidents, particularly on highways, in the country. Still there is no significant improvement in this regard. Recently, eight people, including a five-year old girl, were killed and 35 others injured in road crashes in four separate incidents in one single day.

A new study using ground and satellite GPS monitors have concluded that the north-eastern corner of the Indian subcontinent encompassing Bangladesh, eastern India and parts of Myanmar is at risk of a major earthquake, and the effect when it occurs would be on a massive scale (8.2 to 9 on the Richter scale). The study conducted at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University should be taken seriously, particularly by Bangladesh which has several issues going against it in the event of a major quake.

The action of the police with regard to the two Gulshan café survivors has left us flabbergasted. The police claim that they have been released after questioning but the two families have no knowledge of their whereabouts.

We welcome the moves by both north and south city corporations in revitalising the open public spaces like parks by undertaking extensive plantation of trees and flower plants.

What most of the world had believed to be true about the rationale of the Iraq invasion, the Chilcot report has confirmed in black and white.

The most significant issue that has occupied the minds of the people in this country in the aftermath of the gruesome killings of twenty Bangladeshi...

Every Eid, people unfortunate enough to take ill and get admitted to one of the major public hospitals is faced with the same spectacle.

The heinous terrorist attacks in a Gulshan café and the subsequent attack on an Eid congregation in Sholakia have brought home the reality of a massive lack of preparedness in dealing with terror operations which started with targeted killings and have now taken on a bigger scale.

Japanese firms are reassessing security needs for their citizens in Bangladesh in the aftermath of the deadly attack on an upscale

Even before we could barely recover from the gruesome terrorist attack at a restaurant in Gulshan that left 20 hostages, mainly

As the rush for going home outside Dhaka starts, the first signs of likely disaster are already showing. On Sunday, a reporter saw