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
Protesting nurses under the cosh
We are aghast by reports that at least 50 nurses were injured when the police charged batons and used water cannons on protestors who had attempted to lay siege on the health minister's residence in the capital.
2 June 2016, 18:00 PM
An ambitious budget
The finance minister has presented the 45th annual budget of Tk3.4 trillion that is 29 per cent bigger than the last fiscal.
2 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Bondage perpetuates amid growth!
We are so engrossed in the exponential development figures that we hardly care about those people who are toiling in enslaved conditions to fuel the growth engine.
1 June 2016, 18:00 PM
S&P rating remains same
Despite scoring the same stable “BB-” in the long-term and “B” short-term sovereign credit ratings by S&P, a US-based financial services company for the last six years, the economy has witnessed steady growth with little fluctuation.
1 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Revenue collection shortfall anticipated
It is hardly surprising that a premier think tank in the country has once again calculated that the government in all probability will miss its tax collection target.
31 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Tobacco production kills
We are shocked at a report in this daily yesterday marking 'World No Tobacco Day', that has revealed that as many as 3000 children aged between seven and 15 work in bidi factories in Lalmonirhat.
31 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Earthquake disaster management
It is indeed unsettling to note that when it comes to earthquake of a high magnitude, our disaster management preparedness is almost nonexistent.
30 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Price hikes before Ramadan!
It is a trend that appears to be predictable but devoid of all logic – the spiraling of prices of essentials just before Ramadan.
30 May 2016, 18:00 PM
PM's call at G7 Summit
The prime minister's call to the leaders of the wealthiest nations at the Outreach Meeting of the recently held G7 Summit in Japan to be more generous to less developed countries is substantive and timely.
29 May 2016, 18:00 PM
UP elections getting incrementally deadly
Even the chief election commissioner (CEC) has admitted that violence has escalated in the fifth phase of the elections.
29 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Decisive victory of Mamata
Mamata Banerjee has proven how a committed leader can sweep the polls against veteran rival, the Communist Party (Marxist-
28 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Radicalised Bangladeshis in Singapore
We take the developments regarding Bangladeshis' involvement in terrorism in Singapore very seriously, for though the
28 May 2016, 18:00 PM
People can't just go 'missing'!
When nine people mysteriously go “missing” from two villages of the same upazila in less than a month, including three members of the same family...
27 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Why food crisis in Thanchi?
The report in this paper, carrying the news of a large number of families in near starving condition in Thanchi upazilla of Bandarban is grim as well as shocking.
27 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Another miscarriage of justice
A day after we wrote about a man wrongfully incarcerated for 13 years, we find that a minor was tried in a wrong court and under a wrong law.
26 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Dhaka's crippling gridlock
Those on the road yesterday experienced firsthand the agony of Dhaka's traffic gridlock, this time caused by a DNCC event and a procession of the education ministry.
26 May 2016, 18:00 PM
The neglected national poet
We as a nation honour ourselves by revering Kazi Nazrul Islam as our national poet. And why shouldn't we, considering his immense contribution to poetry, music and the spirit of nationalism?
25 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Negligence costs Biswas 13 years
While we may express dismay and sympathy for Zobed Ali Biswas who spent an additional 13 years in jail after being acquitted in a case, can we even begin to comprehend what the man had to endure during incarceration despite being declared innocent?
25 May 2016, 18:00 PM
The carnage in Syria continues
The bloody conflict in Syria has entered its 6th year. And we were reminded of it on May 23 when 7 explosions ripped through north-eastern Syria in the heartland of government-controlled territory.
24 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Supreme Court's ruling on arbitrary arrest
We welcome the Supreme Court's verdict to uphold High Court directives to stop police forces from making arbitrary arrests on suspicion and torturing arrestees while in remand.
24 May 2016, 18:00 PM