The coronavirus crisis has worsened education inequality between rich and poor in Bangladesh as a huge number of students from poor families are not able to access the distance learning adopted by the government, according to a World Bank working paper.

Chattogram happens to be the second largest city in the country and not everything is going well in terms of the peaceful, fair and transparent

So it begins finally. If everything goes as planned, the prime minister will today inaugurate a pilot run for the rollout of Covishield—the Oxford-

We are disheartened to learn from a recent report in this newspaper that a portion of the Kohelia in Moheshkhali’s Matarbari union is in dire straits

In a world already riddled by extreme economic and racial inequality, the coronavirus has exacerbated entrenched systems of inequity and

We laud the government’s plan to undertake a Tk 428 crore project to develop the skills of 256,000 unemployed and disadvantaged women and hone

We had predicted at the very outset of the pandemic that one of the long lasting inevitable negative impacts of Covid-19 would be on the economy

Having received the first consignment of 20 lakh doses of Covishield vaccine as a gift from India—along with the purchase of three crore doses from

We applaud Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government for inaugurating the Ashrayan 2 project aimed at rehabilitating homeless, landless

As much as 60 percent of the country’s power generation capacity remained unutilised in 2020 because of a lack of demand for electricity.

According to a recent report published in this paper, Rajshahi University Vice-Chancellor Professor M Abdus Sobhan has “assured” BCL men that

We believe the government’s discussion to reopen schools on a limited scale giving priority to the SSC and HSC students is a prudent move. The

Amidst speculations of unrest created by Trump supporters and worries of domestic terrorism, Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the

The first consignment of Covishield vaccine from India arrived in Bangladesh on Thursday. India gifted Bangladesh 20 lakh doses of the Oxford

The state of rivers in Bangladesh has been a cause for concern for a while now, so much so that in 2019, the High Court declared rivers to be “legal

We all know how difficult it has been for school-going children to cope with their studies during almost eleven months of staying at home and not

When a public service agency embarks on a development or communications project based on faulty designs and no feasibility study, it is bound to

Unfortunately, there has been no letup in traffic accidents and death and injuries therefrom. Although the total number of road accidents in 2020 was

The government’s undertaking to hand over thousands of houses to the homeless across the country to mark the birth centenary of the Father of

The government’s decision to roll out two new stimulus packages for a total of Tk 2,700 crore is a welcome one. One of the stimulus packages is