International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists / A moment for self-reflection
2 November 2024, 02:00 AM
Opinion / Unbridled corruption and a minister’s reckless comment
3 July 2024, 04:00 AM
Civil war in Myanmar: Bangladesh should revisit its national security strategy
26 June 2024, 04:00 AM
Biman’s frustrating legacy of misadventures
15 June 2024, 02:00 AM
FY2024-25 Budget / Whitening black money, raising taxes won’t fix our economic ails
5 June 2024, 12:30 PM
Children must be protected from abuse and torture
27 May 2024, 02:00 AM
How are electrolyte drinks regulated in Bangladesh?
21 May 2024, 04:00 AM
Dhaka's toxic air: An invisible killer on the loose
18 May 2024, 01:00 AM
Women breaking the glass ceiling? Not so much in sports
1 May 2024, 14:00 PM
Israel is rogue, but Iran must demonstrate restraint
22 April 2024, 05:37 AM
Bangladesh should revisit its Myanmar policy
What does the repeated violation of Bangladesh’s land and airspace by the troublesome neighbour signify?
19 September 2022, 13:00 PM
Plastic waste mismanagement is killing our environment
Private sector companies who daily contribute to plastic pollution must come up with ways to manage it.
12 September 2022, 18:39 PM
Protect Rohingya women, children from sexual exploitation
Many Rohingya women and children who managed to flee rape and genocide in Myanmar end up in the trap of sex trade and trafficking inside the refugee camps in Bangladesh.
7 September 2022, 14:30 PM
Why Bilkis Bano’s rapists should be behind bars
Men who raped Bilkis Bano during 2002 Gujarat riots allowed to walk free on the same day that PM Modi promised to make the nation a better place for women.
23 August 2022, 14:00 PM
Israel’s latest attack on Palestine: Who is the real terrorist?
The ongoing attacks seem premeditated as they come as part of a well-coordinated package.
7 August 2022, 11:30 AM
Smugglers should not be rewarded
Bangladesh’s struggle with smuggling is not a new phenomenon.
28 June 2022, 18:00 PM
India should think beyond the Hindutva agenda
Over the last few years – under the BJP government – India’s religious polarisation has increased in degree and intensity.
23 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Why are we still rewarding money launderers?
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has placed a controversial suggestion in his budgetary proposal: money launderers – read financial criminals – will be allowed to legalise their laundered money without having to face any questions, if they pay a meagre 7-15 percent tax.
21 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Ctg depot fire: Lives engulfed by apathy
The Chattogram depot fire has once again exposed the severe negligence in the handling of hazardous chemicals in Bangladesh.
5 June 2022, 10:02 AM
Pollution in Bangladesh: The invisible tango with death
More than 215,000 people in Bangladesh succumbed to pollution in 2019. The ever lurking, at times invisible, killer—air pollution—alone claimed about 175,000 lives.
25 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Biman’s misadventures continue
Biman is once again making the headlines and, as usual, for all the wrong reasons.
17 May 2022, 18:00 PM
The murder of Shireen Abu Akleh: Another voice for Palestine muted
Occupation forces storm Jenin and besiege a house in the Jabriyat neighbourhood. On the way there, I will bring you news as soon as the picture becomes clear,” emailed Shireen Abu Akleh to Al Jazeera at 6:13 on Wednesday morning.
13 May 2022, 18:00 PM
A not-so-smart proposal for an offshore smart city
In an unprecedented move, the parliamentary standing committee on housing and public works ministry has directly recommended a major development project—to build an offshore smart city claiming land from the Bay of Bengal—directly to the prime minister.
10 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Who are the helmet bahini?
They come wearing helmets, brandishing machetes and sticks; they vandalise, they kill, and then they are gone, even beyond the long arms of the law.
25 April 2022, 18:00 PM
We can’t let our guard down against Covid
With Covid-19 cases receding worldwide, our lives are entering a new phase, where the “normal” perhaps means a strategic co-existence with an ever-present, maleficent viral disease.
17 April 2022, 18:00 PM
A reckoning is due for Dhaka Wasa
Dhaka is witnessing an early diarrhoea outbreak this year. The hospitals in the city, including the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), are treating hundreds of new patients every day.
7 April 2022, 18:00 PM
Let no one remain outside electricity coverage
Bangladesh has recently achieved a unique milestone: it has become the first country in South Asia to have 100 percent electricity coverage.
30 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Why does development equal wastage of public money?
Recently, Dhaka North Mayor Atiqul Islam made some comments with regard to traffic management in the city, some of which are not without inherent logic.
22 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Not licensed to kill
Fifty-six-year-old Babul Sardar of Debhata upazila in Satkhira was arrested with 50 bottles of phensedyl on December 11, 2021 by the Detective Branch (DB) of police.
14 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Is Dhaka beyond saving?
Dhaka, the nucleus of Bangladesh’s economic success, is the most densely populated city in the country (and perhaps in the world), accommodating more than 47,000 people per square kilometre (as of 2018).
9 March 2022, 18:00 PM