New method for combating counterfeit drugs

As the country's drug markets are flooded with fake and substandard medicines and millions of patients are exposed to the danger...
22 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Chaos at Sayedabad terminal!

Thousands of people were left stranded on June 21 because of two feuding groups of transport workers' associations clashed over collection of illegal toll money from buses.
22 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Uttara arms haul

It was providence, in the form of a lone police man and his family who happened to be near the spot and who warned the police about
21 June 2016, 18:00 PM

The aggrieved are now the hounded

Three months have elapsed since Tonu's murder and various State bodies including the police and medical examiners have failed to
21 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Ruling party programme and traffic snarl up

As it is, traffic in the late afternoons of a Ramadan day is heavy without being compounded by street programmes of political
20 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Religious leaders call against militancy

We are heartened by the call of as many as 100,000 well known religious leaders and alems of the country against militancy. This
20 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Crossfire is not the answer to militancy

We cannot but express our total dismay at the rising number of deaths of suspects in police custody.
19 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Blood from Mumbai

In a remarkable act of compassion, four people from Mumbai have donated a rare group of blood, known as 'Bombay blood' to Mohammad Kamruzzaman, a victim of a traffic accident who needed it for a life-saving surgery.
19 June 2016, 18:00 PM

British MP murdered

We condemn in the strongest possible terms the senseless murder of Ms. Joe Cox on June 16. She was a Member of Parliament for the
18 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Rising Teesta water

Usually, when we pen editorials on the Teesta river, it is to express our concern over the alarming drop in the flow of Teesta water into
18 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Mystery behind the three killed in Jessore!

Three bodies were found killed and dumped in Jessore's Jhikargacha on Wednesday. According to police, the three were robbers
17 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Pecuniary punishment against defaulting tanners

At last the High Court has ordered errant tannery owners to pay a hefty fine per day for every day of delay in shifting their
17 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Don't shoot

The killing of three people in Pabna, Brahmanbaria and Jessore in police 'shootouts', speaks of abuse of power.
16 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Action against fake CNG cylinder providers

It is not every day we see authorities take notice of newspaper reports and editorials. We are pleased to see the Department of Explosives and the Rupantarita Praktritik Gas Company Ltd.
16 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Relaxing traffic laws unhelpful

We are taken aback when the minister for Road Transport and Bridges goes on record to state that unfit buses are kept on the roads to ease public suffering.
15 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Train services remain poor

Although nearly three and half months have elapsed since the government increased the train fares, the railway services remain horribly poor as were in the past.
15 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Thousands still starving in Thanchi

This is the second editorial that we have to write in a space of less than two weeks on the food crisis in Thanchi. It does not seem that anyone in the government is too concerned about what is happening there.
14 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Ticking time bombs

This paper has run more than one story in the last two months on the proliferation of faulty and counterfeit CNG-conversion of petrol-driven vehicles in Dhaka.
14 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Orlando attack

We condemn in the strongest possible terms the barbaric terror attack on a nightclub in Orlando that has claimed the lives of 50
13 June 2016, 18:00 PM

How did Tonu die?

Three agonizing months have passed for the parents of Tonu and they still have not been able to find out how she died. This
13 June 2016, 18:00 PM