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Zero pass rate a sign of bigger problems
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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
Budgetary allocation for people with disabilities
Jatiya Pratibandi Forum (JPF), in a press conference on Sunday, highlighted that there has not been any significant allocation for development of people with disabilities in the national budget...
8 June 2015, 18:00 PM
How to communicate better with people
Here is an example of how to keep public and journalists better informed.
8 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Modi's action-packed visit ends
Indian PM Narendra Modi must have left Dhaka a satisfied man achieving demonstrative success in clinching the deals with Bangladesh that India had been striving for.
7 June 2015, 18:00 PM
A hospital without electricity
The patients at Chittagong Medical College Hospital have gone through untold sufferings due to lack of electricity for three days, as the hospital administration failed to repair...
7 June 2015, 18:00 PM
No breakthrough on Teesta
We have already editorially welcomed Prime Minister Modi and will comment again after the visit is over. Today we are focusing on the
6 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Reservations remain on budget
The budget has been overwhelmingly welcomed by most quarters. The business community and the various chambers of commerce have
6 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Warm welcome to PM Modi
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarks today on his august visit to Bangladesh, 'with a sense of enthusiasm and delight', to borrow his own words.
5 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Racing bus drivers
The traffic authorities must play a more active role in identifying and holding accountable reckless driving, speeding and unfit and overloaded vehicles.
5 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Another terrifying arson attack
Just when we had started to feel a sense of relief, that the horrific incidents of arson attacks during the BNP led opposition hartal-
4 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Budget aims high
The finance minister has presented the 44th annual budget of a record size in parliament. We are giving our preliminary reactions to it at
4 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Citizenship for Rohingyas
The recent tragedy of hundreds of boat people floating in the wilderness of the sea without food and other basic amenities has drawn the world's attention to the protracted suffering of the Rohingyas.
3 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Evicting hawkers from streets
The two Dhaka city corporations are set to clear footpaths from July 1. That the small-scale eviction drive in Gulistan on June 2 fizzled out was a foregone conclusion.
3 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Committees to combat trafficking since 2012
It is with dismay that we are informed by a Daily Star exclusive, that although the government formed over 5,000 committees, in all 64
1 June 2015, 18:00 PM
BRTC's rundown buses
An investigative report in this paper on Monday made a shocking revelation of the BRTC's poor maintenance of its relatively new fleet of
1 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Minister's resounding 'no' to reception
Our auditory nerves are often rattled by reports of sycophantic preparations made to receive an official dignitary on a routine visit to a place under his or her jurisdiction.
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
SSC results out in time
The ministry of education must be complimented for publishing the results of the SSC examination in less than two months. We also congratulate the successful candidates and high achievers.
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
'External factors' behind human trafficking!
We note with incredulity, that an official of the Bangladesh delegation at the 'Special Meeting on Irregular Migration in the Indian Ocean' in
30 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Prioritisation of projects only on paper
Every year's budget speech highlights certain priority areas. Yet we are dismayed to see that over the last six years, prioritised areas have
30 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Collapse of under construction building
The under construction National Bank building has exposed the systemic failures that involve lack of oversight of construction, capacity of Rajuk in enforcing the Building Code and the obligation of the construction firms in following the Code.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Short-changing the poor
A former deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank, at a recent press conference, revealed some disturbing facts about poor management of poverty alleviation programmes financed by the government.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM