Frightening details have emerged of a female Bangladeshi domestic worker who was tortured and killed at her employer’s house in Saudi Arabia.

It is a sad day indeed when the world has had to watch the US Capitol being stormed by violent Trump supporters, as lawmakers met to certify the

We are alarmed at the way unauthorised factories are producing thousands of low-quality face masks and selling them in the wholesale markets.

We appreciate the prime minister’s direction to the authorities concerned to investigate the delay and cost hike in the Kushtia Medical College and Hospital construction project and take departmental action against those responsible.

We welcome the government’s plan to inoculate nearly 14 crore people in phases against Covid-19 under a Tk 6,786 crore pandemic preparedness

We cannot thank the High Court enough for pinpointing the main reason why our banking sector in particular, and the financial sector in general,

The news of India banning the export of Oxford University-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine for two months has justifiably created some serious

An appalling incident has been reported in this paper that leaves us in despair regarding the trend of deaths in police custody.

We applaud the High Court’s recent order directed at the Department of Environment (DoE) to lodge a case against 30 washing plants in Keraniganj

It shames us as a nation that a freedom fighter who fought for the independence of this country in 1971 has to scrape a living singing on the streets in

It is worrying that the RT-PCR tests done to diagnose coronavirus infections in Bangladesh are not likely to detect the new strain identified in the UK.

Arman’s is a story that will make a good cinema plot because such things can only happen in a tragic novel, or so we think. In Bangladesh, this

We applaud the government for its successful distribution of free textbooks among students of classes six to nine starting from the first day of the

The two city corporations of Dhaka have finally taken over the management and maintenance responsibilities of 26 canals and 10 kilometres of box

A recent report published in this daily reveals how the authorities of Pangsha municipality in Rajbari have been dumping garbage from the town onto a

After being severely criticised by the media and all concerned for showing complete indifference to the health emergency caused by the pandemic,

One year ago, when we stepped into an exciting new decade, few would have guessed what the year 2020 would ultimately look like. It was a

According to government data shared by Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMRRU), the average monthly return of migrant workers

The unprecedented global pandemic that hit us early this year has, aside from exposing the cracks in our healthcare system, also brought under the

If there was a more opportune time to bring the health ministry under an exhaustive scrutiny, it was during the peak period of the pandemic.