Despite a plethora of promises and commitments, legislation and endless assurances by functionaries at every level of the administration...

That Iran has finally admitted to unintentionally shooting down a Ukrainian jetliner is a welcome move, as heart-breaking as the

We are concerned at the reported cost escalation of the project of a rail bridge to be built over Jamuna river.

Around three children are being raped in Bangladesh each day, according to statistics of Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum. Let that number sink in.

A total of 13 candidates for the mayor’s post and 745 for those of councillors are contesting in the upcoming city corporation elections presently scheduled for January 30.

It is a strange yet somehow positive development that Iran’s airstrikes on Iraqi bases hosting US troops has had a sobering effect in terms of diffusing (for now) the real threat of an escalation of hostilities between the US and Iran.

We recognise the efficiency with which Rab has arrested the suspected rapist of the Dhaka University student.

The railways minister has stated that there were 129 railway-related accidents last year, in which 39 people were killed and 155 injured, and that most of the accidents were caused by signal violations and derailments.

According to the recent findings of Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB), the living cost in Dhaka has increased by 6.5 percent in 2019 due to the rising prices of essential commodities and services.

We welcome the High Court’s directive to the authorities to ban single-use plastic products in coastal areas, hotels, motels and restaurants across the country within a year.

We are outraged at yet another deplorable incident of rape of a university student near what is one of the busiest thoroughfares in Dhaka...

A report by The Daily Star published on January 6 has revealed the sufferings of the Kora community, a small ethnic group living in

This year’s Police Week has come with a lot of new demands from the members of the force, including perks like special residential facilities for high ranking officers

On the occasion of the 72nd founding anniversary and reunion of Bangladesh Chhatra League on January 4, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

While it is surely commendable that electricity connections in off-grid areas by public agencies have increased, it is a matter of...

It is alarming that the number of drug addicts is on the rise in the country.

The killing of top Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani by a US drone strike, followed by another strike on a convoy in Iraq, have pushed the world to the brink of a major disaster.

It is heartening to hear from the Law Minister that the government is taking initiatives to settle the enormous number of pending cases in the courts, and that at least five to six lakh cases will be cleared from the existing backlog within the year.

The government has decided to fix a uniform interest rate for all types of deposits at (6 percent) and slash interest rate to single-digit for borrowing (at 9 percent) from April 1. There are four parties to this decision.

A report in this paper regarding the sorry state of the National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital has left us aghast at the