The fire at a building with a chemical warehouse in Armanitola that left four people dead and 25 others injured was a tragedy waiting to happen.

he government’s decision to reopen shops and malls from Sunday, just as the recent “strict” lockdown was beginning to curb the rate of new Covid-19 cases and deaths, is bewildering.

According to a report published by this daily two days ago, a majority of the 5,700 kilometres of embankments surrounding 19 coastal districts are insufficient in preventing floods, increase in salinity and tidal surges caused by cyclones.

Rights organisation Ain O Salish Kendra on April 22 filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the authorities concerned to conduct a judicial inquiry into the killings of workers at SS Power I Plant at Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila on April 17.

We note with some hope that both the daily rate of new Covid-19 infection and the positivity rate have been declining over the past few days.

The vaccination campaign in Bangladesh is set to suffer a major setback as, according to the CEO of the Serum Institute of India, “there is no clarity” on vaccine exports from India at least before June-July.

We are deeply concerned by the findings of a survey conducted by the Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) and the Brac Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD),

We wholeheartedly agree with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s call for Covid 19 vaccines to be declared as a global public good that needs to be

There is nothing worse than to find oneself stranded abroad without one’s passport. But if the person happens to be someone to whom a passport is more than a travel document, being without a passport becomes a matter of survival.

Despite the rapid increase in Covid-19 infections over the past weeks, the number of daily tests has been sharply decreasing, increasing the risk factor of people carrying the virus remaining undetected and therefore infecting others.

We are relieved to know about the government’s latest initiative to turn Dhaka North City Corporation’s (DNCC) kitchen market in Mohakhali into a makeshift hospital dedicated to Covid-19 treatment.

It’s hard to justify, especially in a pandemic year, the consistently abysmal performance of the health sector.

It is concerning to know that more than three percent of the labour force have lost jobs and around 16.38 million people have become newly poor during the ongoing pandemic.

hould people have to die for demanding their rights and their dues? It makes sad reading that five workers of the under-construction coal-fired power plant in Banshkhali were killed and at least 21 others injured during a clash with police on Saturday.

We are appalled by the news of a journalist—Jahangir Alam Shahin—being assaulted and tortured allegedly by BGB men in Kulaghat while he was trying to get information on incidents of drug smuggling in the area.

We are disheartened at the ever-increasing daily Covid-19 death rate in the country, with Friday seeing a record 101 deaths. Though it should be

Ramadan, the holiest month for Muslims all around the world, started on April 14 in Bangladesh. This is a time when Muslims engage in self-

We welcome the announcement from the government that it will be providing another round of cash assistance to nearly 35 lakh poor families facing income losses and hardships amid the ongoing nationwide lockdown.

In a joint letter addressed to Joe Biden, more than 60 former heads of state, including former leaders of Britain and France, and over 100 Nobel

Although the daily rate of Covid-19 infections seems to have gone down slightly, from being 7,201 on April 12 to 5,185 on April 14, the situation does not seem very promising yet,