A report published on September 23, titled “Dead man talking”, has sent shivers down our spine, not because of its title but because it exposes the deep-seated corruption that is crippling our law enforcement institutions and ultimately affecting our justice system. The

We strongly condemn the attack on students at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) in Gopalganj.

The dust has not yet settled after the recent shakeup of the AL’s student wing and the fallout of its youth wing’s involvement in large-scale operation of casinos in the capital, and there the BCL goes again in Thakurgaon.

The European parliament has called on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to impose a wide-ranging arms embargo and targeted economic sanctions against the perpetrators of the massive human rights violation against the Rohingya populace. UNSC has also been

It’s no longer a secret that climate change is taking place at a faster pace than we had predicated, and its effects are already punishing. Among countries that are most vulnerable to climate change is Bangladesh, where, according to the latest assessment by IMF, one-third

Investors involved in the country’s premier bourse, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) have reportedly lost Tk 31,349 crore. DSE index has slumped to a 33-month low since July 2.

A report in this daily has revealed a startling fact about the Chattogram Customs House (CCH): for years it has been doing nothing about the numerous money laundering incidents taking place right under its nose.

While inclusion of names of ineligible persons in the national electoral role may appear innocuous and dismissed as being a result of human error, the systematic and conspiratorial way some staff in the election commission offices in Dhaka, Chattogram and Cox’s

We applaud the government for the recent crackdown on casinos illegally operating in the city by some Jubo League leaders. Rab has raided at least five clubs and detained around 183 people and arrested a Jubo League leader for running such an establishment. In fact,

We are worried to learn from a news report published in this daily on September 18 that the Hakaluki haor in Moulvibazar has turned into a contaminated wetland with dead fish floating ashore.

Last January, we ran an editorial praising the government ban on the import and sale of meat and bone meal (MBM), the sort of feed the fish and poultry industry uses,

The prisons in the country have an estimated 90,000 prisoners and only nine doctors to look after them. We know that some 23 inmates are dying every month because it is not just doctors that are missing from the prison healthcare system—there’s a huge

The recent revelation in a report by a UN fact-finding mission that said, the 600,00 Rohingya remaining in Myanmar’s Rakhine state face “serious risk of genocide” and that repatriation of the ones who have been driven out of the country by its military

It is unfortunate that a landfill in Aminbazar on the outskirts of Dhaka, run by Dhaka North City Corporation, does not have any environmental clearance. A photo published in The Daily Star on September 16 showed how indiscriminate dumping of all types of

The narratives that have emerged from the United States in the aftermath of the recent attacks on Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s state petroleum and natural gas company, are alarming. While US President Donald Trump has said on Twitter that they are “locked and

We are used to hearing of reckless use of public money through various methods and means, pillows costing thousands of takas for example, but perhaps for the first time we are hearing of huge sums of money spent on a public project even before completing the very basics to get it going.

We applaud the government for its successful endeavours to increase fish production in the country—efforts that have resulted in

For many people, a job in the Customs department is a dream come true. Taking advantage of the massive unemployment situation amongst graduates in the country, this paper has found a number of people who have been conned out of their savings with the promise of a job in Chattogram Customs.

It came as no surprise that there was yet another case of misappropriation of public funds in the name of non-existent needs for medical equipment—taking place at the Rangpur Medical College in June 2018—but what had us rolling our eyes is the extraordinary swiftness with which this particular case was executed. Normally,

Eliyas Numan, a Swechchasebak League leader, was not only beaten up but his assailants chopped off his left hand. The brutal attack was carried out by members of Jubo League, who apparently were unhappy with Numan for facilitating electricity connections from Palli