Take steps to save haor harvest urgently
29 April 2026, 19:00 PM Editorial
Appoint new ACC without further delay
30 April 2026, 12:00 PM Editorial
Bid to reclaim defunct SIBL rings alarm bells
28 April 2026, 19:09 PM Editorial
Safeguard women migrant workers’ rights
29 April 2026, 12:00 PM Editorial
Remove ageing buses from roads
28 April 2026, 12:00 PM Editorial
Rid Geneva Camp of drug trade
26 April 2026, 18:30 PM Editorial
Measles response is clearly not enough
27 April 2026, 12:00 PM Editorial
For how long will traffickers go free?
25 April 2026, 19:00 PM Editorial

The rich and influential creep into relief list!

A report in this daily about the name of the industries and commerce affairs secretary of Brahmanbaria Awami League being in the list of
14 May 2020, 18:00 PM

Editorial: Protect migrant workers from food shortages

A report in this daily on May 13 painted a grim picture of the fate of Bangladeshi migrant workers with most host countries doing very little to
13 May 2020, 18:00 PM

Why don’t the beneficiaries’ NID numbers match with those on EC database?

While the government’s cash assistance programme for 50 lakh poor families is supposed to start from today, it is unfortunate to learn that many
13 May 2020, 18:00 PM

Pay staff at the private universities

Ordinarily, it doesn’t make sense for a university to stop paying its staff in the middle of a semester that the students have already paid for.
12 May 2020, 18:00 PM

Hazardous plastic waste during pandemic

While health workers are desperately trying to treat Covid-19 and other critically ill patients in hospitals and the public is trying to maintain better hygiene, the fallout of the use of a huge amount of plastic waste generated during the last month or so is being overlooked.
12 May 2020, 18:00 PM

Reality of reopening malls and markets

In an attempt to ease the nationwide lockdown and resume economic activities, selective shopping malls and other businesses were allowed to
11 May 2020, 18:00 PM

Emergency rooms cannot turn away patients

We are appalled by a report in this paper that relates the harrowing tales of family members of critically ill patients who have been denied treatment
11 May 2020, 18:00 PM

Soaring youth unemployment can have disastrous outcome

With the “Great Lockdown” poised to cause the worst global recession in nearly a century, young Bangladeshis—who were already struggling with
10 May 2020, 18:00 PM

Focus more on epidemiological surveillance

While conducting an epidemiological surveillance is crucial to understand and fight the outbreak of an extremely contagious disease like Covid-19, it is worrying that we are yet to carry out any such surveillance to handle the outbreak of the disease in the country.
10 May 2020, 18:00 PM

Celebrating Mother’s Day

As we celebrate International Mother’s Day today, remaining confined to our homes, we, in fact, get a better chance to see the hard work our mothers have to do every single day only to make our lives comfortable.
9 May 2020, 18:00 PM

The world at risk of mega-famines

The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the world is at risk of “mega-famines” as COVID-19 cases are expected to peak in the world’s most fragile countries in the next three to six months.
9 May 2020, 18:00 PM

Infections are still rising

It is worrying that as the country is preparing to ease the lockdown before Eid to mitigate the economic fallout of the crisis, the ground realities
8 May 2020, 18:00 PM

Violence against women has increased during lockdown

There is little doubt that as with most crisis situations, the lockdown to stop the current COVID-19 pandemic has affected women and children
8 May 2020, 18:00 PM

Reopening the businesses amid highest risks

As the government has decided to reopen shopping malls, all types of shops and businesses on a limited scale from May 10 ahead of the Eid,
7 May 2020, 18:00 PM

Editorial: Right to freedom of expression is in mortal danger

A cartoonist, a writer and an activist were among the four latest victims of arrest under the draconian Digital Security Act, which it seems is being
7 May 2020, 18:00 PM

Feeding the hungry during the lockdown

It is heart-warming to learn from a report in The Daily Star that a group of Dhaka University students led by a DUCSU member has been serving free
6 May 2020, 18:00 PM

Ensure all laboratories and experts are being utilised

In a press conference in mid-March, WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had memorably said it is not possible to “fight a fire blindfolded” and
6 May 2020, 18:00 PM

Pandemic and the unscrupulous

One notices a malicious tendency in some unprincipled and dishonest people to exploit and misuse relief measures of the government, particularly
5 May 2020, 18:00 PM

Reopening plan may be disastrous if not handled right

As economic pain from the coronavirus lockdown increasingly bites the country, the government has decided to reopen the economy partially.
5 May 2020, 18:00 PM

Bidyanondo, SAAF and others, standing by the vulnerable

At a time when most of humanity is subdued because of the ongoing pandemic, Bidyanondo Foundation has been one of the first responders to the crisis, providing food and medical safety gear to people who needed them the most.
4 May 2020, 18:00 PM