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
To the polls we go
As the two major cities in the country go to the polls today to elect their mayors, there is a high degree of expectation tinged with a sense
27 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Assault of JU teacher by student activist
We are outraged that a teacher was allegedly sexually assaulted on a campus by a student, that too, by an activist of a ruling party student
27 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Yet more deaths in road accidents `
Not a week goes by when we are not bombarded with the news of yet more deaths in road accidents.
25 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Harsh realities of the city corporations' power
Amidst the high hopes created by the exuberant mayoral campaigning comes a cold splash of reality. According to a report by The Daily
25 April 2015, 18:00 PM
PM's call for peace and security
We fully endorse the call by Prime Minister Hasina at the Asian-African Summit which concluded in Indonesia on Thursday to elevate the
24 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Import duty on rice in the offing at last
Taking advantage of zero tariff on import of rice from India, traders imported the stuff freely apparently without any ceiling having been
24 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Rana Plaza disaster, two years on
WITH a mixed bag of feelings we note that though the garment industry has managed to rise above the Rana Plaza shock over the course
23 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Women councillor contenders want to work for a better Dhaka
IT is with mixed feelings that we note the promises articulated by contending women councillors for Dhaka north and south city corporation polls at a Prothom Alo roundtable.
23 April 2015, 18:00 PM
A devastating heist
THE daring and bloody bank robbery that was perpetrated in broad day light on April 21 at the Kathgora branch of Bangladesh
22 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Why only Tk 19 crore disbursed for Rana Plaza victims?
ACCORDING to the anti-graft watchdog, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), Tk 108 crore of the Tk 127 crore deposited into the Prime
22 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Attack on BNP Chairperson's motorcade
WE are taken aback by the news that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's motorcade came under attack, reportedly by pro-ruling party
21 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Police used to gage AL candidates' popularity
IT is nothing short of bizarre – that officers-in charge of police stations have been busy sending reports on the popularity of candidates
21 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Congrats on an inspiring win
It is indeed heartening to see a spirited Bangladesh cricket team emphatically beating Pakistan in two consecutive matches by a huge
20 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Controversy over CCTV footage
Of the 19 CCTV cameras that were positioned around the various spots where the sexual assaults took place on Pahela Baishakh, the
20 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Hilsa stocks dwindling dangerously
THOUGH the government amended the Protection and Conservation of Fish Act (1950) in the year 2002 to ban the manufacture and
19 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Rein in the unruly BCL elements
The main reason why some of the ruling party's student wing Chhatra League (BCL) cadres have been able to carry on with their
18 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Reducing case backlogs
Given the fact that the Supreme Court (SC) spends six months in a year vacationing, including weekends, and has some 300,000 pending
18 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Rules broken on land acquisition for power projects
ATIB report on the Rampal and Matarbari power plant projects has found major violations in the way the acquisition of the land has been
17 April 2015, 18:00 PM
School boy abducted, murdered
THE news of a child being abducted, missing without a trace amid hair-splitting agony of the victim's parents and then finally surfacing
17 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Another death trap
IT is disquieting to see that an illegal two-storied tin-house, built on a marshland inside the capital, caved in causing the death of 12 of
17 April 2015, 18:00 PM