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
SD on telecom services
We fully endorse the state minister for telecommunication's call to do away with the supplementary duties (SD) on telecom services...
12 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Ending child labour
Bangladesh has made encouraging progress in increasing the number of enrollment in schools and yet 1.7 million children find themselves toiling in the informal sector of the economy...
12 June 2016, 18:00 PM
“Anti-terror week”
The government has gone into a weeklong anti militant drive after announcing the date and time of its commencement. Ironically
11 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Why this heavy-handed attitude?
We have been covering the excesses committed by ruling party men from time to time. This time round a forest official got the
11 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Roanu victims still suffer
Hundreds of students in Patuakhali's Kalapara Upazila can no longer go to their school.
10 June 2016, 18:00 PM
The killing of an ashram worker
Only two days after a 70-year-old Hindu priest was hacked to death in Jhenidah, we have been confronted with another brutal killing...
10 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Technological breakthrough at BAU
Boro is the single largest crop in the country, contributing to 55 percent of nearly 35 million tonnes of the annual crop.
9 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Has the TCB already run out of supplies?
Come every Ramadan, we are confronted with rampant price hikes and unethical trade practices in sharp contrast to the spirit of the holy month.
9 June 2016, 18:00 PM
UNDP survey
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has carried out a survey of 1,500 households in Dhaka city, 17 municipalities and 33 village covering 45 districts and its findings shared recently.
8 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Substandard drugs in the market
While we appreciate the directive of the High Court to stop production of twenty drug companies we are dismayed at the role of the drug administration which failed to take immediate action against the companies at fault.
8 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Khasis in fear of eviction
We are outraged by the government notice that demands the Khasis of Nahar Punjee in Moulvibazar to vacate the hillocks in which they ...
7 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Ramadan prices up as usual!
Regular as clockwork, prices of essentials started to rise well before the month of holy Ramadan.
7 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Murder of SP's wife by extremists
The murder of a police officer's wife in Chittagong has added a new dimension to the ongoing terrorist attacks in the country. Targeting a
6 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Section 155 (4) goes against rape victims
It is incomprehensible that in this day and age we are forced to confront a situation whereby a rape victim is further victimised because of
6 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Protecting the environment
We observed yet another World Environment Day, and perhaps it is time to seriously evaluate if our actions on the ground match our grand pledges, in summits and seminars, to protect the country from the threat of climate change and further environmental degradation.
5 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Final phase of UP election no less violent
We wonder whether the Chief Election Commissioner was talking about the recently concluded six-phase elections in Bangladesh or some other election in some other country when...
5 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Road Kill
The reason behind the head-on collision between a bus and a stone-laden truck on the Dhaka-Bogra highway on Friday is
4 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Muhammad Ali is no more
The man who “floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee” is no more. Muhammad Ali achieved what no other boxer had ever
4 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Illegal sand lifting
In a welcome move, the mobile court jailed and fined 14 people for illegally lifting sand near the Bangabandhu Bridge in Bhuapur upazila of Tangail.
3 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Meeting the revenue target
The government's focus on mega projects, skills development and job creation are commendable.
3 June 2016, 18:00 PM