As the eight-day “easing” of the “strict” lockdown is passing us by, reports are flooding in from all directions about how health and safety regulations are neither being enforced nor being followed,

A report in this daily reveals how yaba pills are continuing to be smuggled into Bangladesh,

We’ve been here before. We’ve seen lockdown come and go with the same arbitrariness with which most decisions on this land are taken.

It has come out in a recent report by this newspaper that since early June, Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK) has been urging the government to purchase 20 million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for the coronavirus.

We fail to understand the wisdom behind the government’s decision to ease lockdown at a time when the numbers of daily new coronavirus cases and

It is quite disappointing that cattle markets around the capital—which are not set to open before July 17—are already seeing throngs of sellers and potential buyers, most of them not wearing masks, let alone practicing social distancing.

We applaud the government decision to introduce relief packages worth Tk 3,200 crore to segments of the population who have been dealt a fresh blow by

It is unacceptable that a contractor of the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) has disrupted the flow of the Ratnai river in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila worse following its excavation.

It was a Catch-22 situation for the government and no doubt the decisionmakers are in a quandary at this moment.

We are shocked that although the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) had visited Hashem Foods factory in Rupganj, Narayanganj, just one month before the fire, they only checked whether Covid health guidelines were being met, and did not bother to check whether the factory had any fire safety measures as required by law.

Yet another journalist has fallen victim to the dragnet of the Digital Security Act (DSA). Yet another blatant misuse of the law, in the name of

A 2019 joint study by the Society for Environment and Human Development, the Centre for Injury Prevention and Research Bangladesh

The devastating fire at the food factory in Rupganj is yet another example that accidents occur when rules are disregarded, safety procedures

We are deeply concerned regarding the worsening floods in Sirajganj and Lalmonirhat districts, due to the rising water levels of Jamuna and Teesta rivers.

It is hard to label the painful deaths of at least 52 workers and staff members in Thursday’s fire in the Hashem Foods factory in Narayanganj as a random

We are deeply concerned about the more than 1,200 migrant agricultural workers from about 10 northern districts of the country who are currently trapped in Faridpur due to the lockdown.

A Tk 58.5 crore project called the “Safe Crop Production through Integrated Pest Management” had created enormous interest among farmers to grow foods

As the country is encountering its worst phase yet of the Covid-19 pandemic, a dengue surge is becoming a fresh cause for concern.

Hundreds of people are being arrested every day for violating lockdown rules, and as this newspaper reported on July 8, most of these arrestees are the poor going out to earn their daily bread.

The government on Sunday and Monday, through various circulars, directed 1,239 doctors from medical colleges to join different Covid units at public