We applaud the initiative taken by four corporate houses based in Chattogram, who have been supplying oxygen to hospitals and patients for free in several districts, like Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Feni, Cumilla, and Sylhet, since the middle of last year.

It’s deeply worrying that Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH), the central hospital in the division, is struggling with a growing crisis of ventilators and ICU beds amidst a surge in Covid-19 infections.

It’s quite disheartening to know that in the national budget for fiscal year 2021-22, only Tk 1,221 crore has been allocated for the Ministry of

We are apprehensive of what is to come as Covid-19 infection and death rates continue to rise to dangerous numbers in many districts across the

While generally the FY21-22 budget is business friendly, the same regrettably cannot be said about its provisions for the poor, particularly those who have been newly thrust below the poverty line due to reasons induced by the pandemic.

It is heart-breaking to learn of the near death of three rivers and one canal in Tangail due to the dumping of polluted elements by some mills and factories in the given area, according to a DS report yesterday which was World Environment Day.

A report in The Daily Star on June 3 highlighted the harrowing experiences of three trafficked victims who were lured to India under false promises of getting well-paying decent jobs.

Since the pandemic hit Bangladesh in early 2020, the poverty rate has doubled—for every five people in Bangladesh, two are now living below the poverty line.

We are alarmed at the recent rise in Covid-19 positive cases in the country, and especially in areas along our borders.

The finance minister on Thursday presented the 50th annual budget of the country which amounted to Tk 603,681 crore, up from last year’s budget of Tk 568,000 crore. Here are our initial reactions to it, and a more detailed analysis will follow.

We’re shocked to know that a hundred steel almirahs which would normally cost Tk 23,000 each have been bought at Tk 96,000 each by the

Over the past week, there has been a worrying surge of coronavirus cases in border districts, with some displaying positivity rates that range from 20 percent to a whopping 40 percent.

We are pleased to hear that students of public and private universities are going to receive the Covid-19 vaccine on a priority basis, once they are available.

Only a couple of days ago, we had opined in these very columns that the government should opt for a strict lockdown in the border districts if we are to avoid a situation like the kind that India is facing presently.

We’re worried about the instances of plagiarism which appear to be on the rise in the country’s universities. After three Dhaka University teachers were demoted over plagiarism in their research papers four months ago,

According to a report published by The Daily Star yesterday, people of coastal regions are still in government shelter homes where they had gone before cyclone Yaas was about to strike the region. They cannot go back to their houses, which are submerged under rising levels of saline water.

We are shocked by a report published by The Daily Star yesterday that describes how, the drug Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) has been smuggled

The government should have gone for a complete lockdown of the bordering districts long ago, at the time when the virus started spreading in

We commend the expatriates’ welfare ministry’s decision to provide Tk 20,000-25,000 as aid for unvaccinated migrant workers who have to quarantine at hotels upon their arrival in Saudi Arabia.

The picture of forlorn children holding pictures of their fathers forcibly disappeared for six or eight years or more, as was published yesterday, are heart-breaking reminders of this abhorrent practice that has only resulted in unease and lack of public trust towards the government.