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
Police or politician?
We are flabbergasted by the comments made by officer-in-charge of Hatibandha Police Station, of a decidedly political nature, at two consecutive programmes at which 1100 former BNP and JP activists formally joined the AL at Gaddimiri union.
21 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Bringing Wasa, Rajuk under City Corporations
Policymakers would do well to pay heed to the call of the DNCC mayor to bring Rajuk and Wasa under the jurisdiction of the city corporations in order to tackle the city's worsening waterlogging problem.
21 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Shipbreaking workers in peril
In this paper we have written many times about the hazardous working conditions at shipbreaking yards.
20 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Cost overruns and missed deadlines
The initial cost of the Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover was Tk 7.73 billion and original completion of the project was December 2014.
20 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Special audit of Bangladesh Bank
It is perhaps the first of its kind that a special audit on Bangladesh Bank has been asked for the parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
19 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Gross violation of traffic rules
Just days after two schoolgirls were killed within hours in road crashes at the Shahbagh and Matsya Bhaban intersection, reckless driving of buses continues unabated.
19 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Bangabandhu Bridge lights off to save electricity
We are aghast by the discovery of a Daily Star report that during the horrific pile up on January 9 on Bangabandhu Bridge that left six people dead...
18 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Sanctions on Iran lifted
We welcome the lifting of the long-running international sanctions against Iran. It will certainly help the country to recover from the consequences...
18 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Reckless drivers continue to kill
The death of two budding young students apparently caused by reckless driving within a span of only eight hours, around Shahbagh area...
17 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Dip in international oil price
The logic being offered by the government for not adjusting the oil price in the country with the international price is that the BPC is making up for the huge 'losses' it has run up over the years.
17 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Police brutality continues
We are deeply disturbed by yet another incident of police torture on a staff of Dhaka South City Corporation, in the same week that
16 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Cancer treatment woefully inadequate
As there is no definitive data available nationally, a 2012 report by World Health Organisation (WHO) serves as the benchmark when it
16 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Police recruitment
According to a report carried in this paper on Thursday, the police high command is pondering changing its current recruitment
15 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Children as decision-makers
In a culture where children, rather than being listened to, are told what to do, it is refreshing that the local administration of Pirojpur's
15 January 2016, 18:00 PM
On track to take silver medal
The news will come as somewhat of a shock to sceptics who like to portray the economy to be in dire straits.
14 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Passing on of General Jacob
Bangladesh condoles with people on both sides of the Bangladesh-India borders the death of Lieutenant General JFR Jacob (retd) at the age of 92...
14 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Address railway's systemic problems
Bangladesh railway's annual loss currently stands at Tk 900 crore. A parliamentary body has endorsed the raising of fares in a bid to counter some...
13 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Brahmanbaria mayhem
The mayhem that took place on Tuesday in Brahmanbaria over the death of a madrasa student is of grave concern to us.
13 January 2016, 18:00 PM
A rent seeking policeman!
The horrific experience of an assistant director of the central bank, picked up by a sub-inspector and his cohorts and tortured inside a police...
12 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Massive gridlock in city
A few days ago we had commented on the unmitigated pain inflicted on the commuters of Dhaka city when the Chhatra League organised a rally to commemorate its founding. Similar pain was wreaked on them on January 11.
12 January 2016, 18:00 PM