Some serious concerns about workers' rights remain unaddressed in the amended labour rules published recently. Two years ago, in 2013, when the labour law was amended, various national and international organisations, including several trade unions, voiced their grievances, claiming that it goes against the fundamental rights of the workers.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hit the nail on the head when she called for the UK and the west to do more to combat militancy. We endorse her views

A new draft law proposed by the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs recommends that although the minimum age for marriage for girls should remain 18, a special provision in the law will allow parents to marry off their daughters at 16 if there are justifiable reasons for doing so.

Bangladesh has made commendable achievements on several Millennium Development Goals (MDG) set by the United Nations in the year 2000.

With bulk of the population unable to afford treatment of life threatening ailments in private medical hospitals, their fate is decided largely by luck when it comes to availing intensive care unit (ICU) facilities in public hospitals.

We welcome the government initiative to formally launch a $1.7 billion project, Skills for Employment and Investment Programme, to train

A new Dhaka master plan has been drafted. And apart from saying that the old master plan was drawn up sitting at home, the minister for housing has not offered any rationale for why it wasn't implemented.

We congratulate the Prime Minister on winning the prestigious Champions of the Earth Award for her farsighted initiatives to address the challenges of climate change.

The decision of the High Court to scrap the abhorrent law that legitimised all actions under Operation Clean Heart is a landmark judgement.

We welcome the cabinet's move to withdraw the 7.5 percent VAT that was imposed on the student tuition fees of the private universities.

Our farmers are always in a catch 22 situation. They are doomed if they don't grow enough and they are doomed if they grow more than enough. Growing bumper crops has become a bane for our farmers as a report in this paper so glaringly exposed.

Greed and injustice are gradually putting the small population of Khasis of Moulavibazar's Kulaura and Srimangal upazillas under stress with the local administration, reportedly, putting pressure on the small indigenous group to give up the land they have been living on for generations and paying tax for it.

Come every Eid, homegoers are faced with the same old ticketing trouble. With Eid still weeks away, passengers are already struggling to obtain tickets for

We are all for reducing workers' cost of overseas employment. To this end we had supported the ministry of overseas employment's G2G (government-to-

The school for underprivileged children in Laxmipur of Rajshahi offers promise. Situated on a donated piece of railway land, the 'School of Hope', established and run by 24 university students, offers free education, books and school supplies to 35 children who found all doors of opportunities slammed before them.

Women's participation in the Bangladesh economy stands at 34 per cent, as opposed to 82 per cent for men. According to the recently unveiled World Bank report titled 'Women, Business and the Law', Bangladesh can add a further 1.8 per cent to its current GDP growth of 6 per cent annually.

The anticipated rise in bus and auto fare has come. The new fares for buses will come into effect from October 1 and for CNG-run auto-rickshaws from November 1.

Both private and public universities in the country seem to be in a state of flux, with dissatisfied students and teachers waging separate movements to realise their demands.

We are apalled at the news of a headmaster of Golapganj High School in Dinajpur brutally beating three of its female students.

The reckless manner with which canals have been grabbed and filled up in the capital city can be likened to choking the blood in arteries of a human being.