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
Violence against women and children
A study by Brac University's School of Law has found that between 2009 and 2014, the overall conviction rate under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act 2000 in three district tribunals, including one in Dhaka, was only 0.86 percent.
28 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Foreign trips galore
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Malaysia are three of the largest destinations for Bangladeshi expatriate workers.
28 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Benefits from safety net programmes
A two-year joint research carried out by the World Food Programme and the International Food Policy Research Institute has come up with some interesting findings on how to improve the benefits of safety net programmes (SSNPs) being run in the country.
27 May 2015, 18:00 PM
BCL factional clash and attack on journalists
IT is disquieting to note that during a clash between two factions of Jahangirnagar University (JU) unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) three activists got injured and three journalists were assaulted.
27 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Prompt and sensitive handling of rape cases
Rights organisations have been protesting the insensitivity and sometimes discrimination shown by law enforcers when dealing with cases of sexual assault and rape.
26 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Why humiliate a teacher?
The High Court has ordered a judicial probe against the upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) and the executive magistrate of Bhandaria of Pirojpur for their humiliating treatment of a teacher.
26 May 2015, 18:00 PM
An insensitive remark
WE find the prime minister's remarks on taking steps against illegal migrants along with human traffickers inhumane and insensitive.
25 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Highway safety takes a dip
A number of people are being killed and maimed almost every day in road accidents both in the cities as well as in the highways across Bangladesh.
25 May 2015, 18:00 PM
MRP for expat workers in a shambles
ONE wonders what power is behind the Malaysian firm IRIS that has allowed it to get away with all sorts of failings in meeting its part of the contract in issuing machine readable passports to our expatriate workers.
24 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Remittance outflow issue
FINANCE Minister AMA Muhith underlined an issue of considerable import at a pre-budget discussion with the Economic Reporters' Forum (ERF) on Saturday.
24 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Gang-rape in the capital
THERE are no words to describe our outrage at the horrific news that a 21-year-old indigenous woman has been gang-raped on the
23 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Public power companies offloading shares?
AFTER a hiatus of nine years, the government has formed a panel to review ways certain state-owned power companies may off-load
23 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Fake government officials being trafficked abroad
AMIDST the grisly reports of human trafficking through the seas comes another shocker : Bangladeshis, posing as government officials, entering foreign countries with fake passports.
22 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Earthquake damaged schools
THE aftershocks of the massive quakes epicentered in Nepal have resulted in damages to some 61 primary schools in nine upazilas of Pabna district.
22 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Providing jobs for transgender community
WE are heartened to note that the government is taking active steps to integrate the marginalised transgender community into mainstream society.
21 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Online writers and activists must be protected
THE serial killing of bloggers in Bangladesh, with little development as far as catching and punishing the assassins are concerned, has compelled the Human Rights Forum (Bangladesh) to call upon the government to provide protection to online writers/activists, many of them still on the hit-list of religious extremists.
21 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Salvage the sea-trapped people with utmost urgency
WE are deeply worried at the reports that after a long two weeks boats full of Bangladeshi and Rohingya immigrants are still stranded
20 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Barbaric torture of a minor
There madrasa teachers in Dinajpur were arrested by police for alleged torture of a student accused of stealing on May 19. That a Class II
20 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Myanmar must recognise Rohingyas as its citizens
In the wake of a much publicised international humanitarian crisis relating to boatpeople, thousands of whom are languishing in the high seas, Myanmar's reluctance to attend Thailand's May 29 regional summit to solve the issue, is disconcerting.
19 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Improved signalling system!
The horrendous tailbacks suffered by Dhaka residents last Saturday and Sunday were, we are informed the result of a new signal system installed by the authorities at a cost of Tk14 crore.
19 May 2015, 18:00 PM