The EC should address concerns about the past of some NCC candidates

We are concerned at the way police on January 16, 2022 responded to the agitating students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) who had confined the vice-chancellor to press home their demands.

Ivy does it for the third time

It is quite alarming, if not as surprising, that Dhaka city has ranked fourth in the latest list of world cities with the worst air quality, as per the Air Quality Index

Authorities should consider using tidal river management (TRM) approach

Nothing seems to have worked with the capital’s traffic signal system even after spending Tk 119 crore over the last 15 years. Its method of controlling traffic flow on the roads remains as primitive as ever, with traffic policemen jumping right in front of running cars and using their hands to direct vehicular movement. Even ropes, cones and bamboo fences are used to control the extremely disorderly city traffic.

Govt must give them protection, find their missing relatives

The report of a gas cylinder explosion in Cumilla resulting in the injury of 35 children is distressing, to say the least. We are further troubled to learn that at least six children among them remain critically injured.

Authorities must make farsighted interventions to curb Omicron spread

We wonder how far removed from reality the public administration ministry must be for it to not approve the Roads and Highways

Govt’s curbs must be well-thought-out and enforceable

If an open dumpster is allowed to exist near the very entrance of a hospital, and if it emanates foul stench all the time, how can you trust that

Buriganga, Dhaleshwari’s conditions a cautionary tale of mismanagement

As Omicron spreads across the country and beyond, to top off another year of doom and gloom, two young home-grown talents are reminding us that there is more to life than this.

But some of the curbs merit reconsideration

It is frustrating to learn that two illegal brick kilns in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila, demolished by the Department of Environment (DoE) in February last year, have resumed their operations in full swing.

Implement ban on three-wheelers on highways

It is disheartening to learn that the Sundari canal at Karatia in Tangail Sadar upazila has been turned into a relic of the past, almost as a

The pandemic has been brutal for them, so has bad governance

It is saddening that the building that once housed East Bengal’s first art and craft school, Maheshwarpasha Art School, is set to be