Reportedly, five people have been beaten dead recently and 10 hurt including several policemen and four mentally challenged persons. Even a mother who had gone to a school to inquire about the admission process was beaten to death, suspected of being a child kidnapper. It is abhorrent and disguting to see people falling victims of public lynching in several parts of the country over a period of several days. While there cannot be any scope or ground or justification for resorting to mob “justice”, what makes it even worse is that in this instance, the victims were merely “suspected” of being child-snatchers.

The flood situation in Bangladesh has adversely affected the lives of some 2.1 million people in 24 districts (99 upazilas) and allegations are being made that authorities are not reaching the affected people.

We are dismayed that despite dengue becoming a formidable menace for months, the Chief Health Officer of Dhaka South City Corporation is now talking about forming 57 committees in 57 wards of the city in order to destroy mosquito breeding grounds.

The High Court (HC) observed on July 17 that the two city corporations have failed to tackle the outbreak of dengue infestation and that it has already cost the lives of more than 20 people. During the hearing of a writ petition by a rights organisation, the HC stated that the

A report was submitted to the LGRD ministry on July 18 by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and we understand that the ACC has found systemic corruption taking place in eight projects undertaken by Dhaka Wasa. The anti-graft watchdog body has made a 12-point

We are shocked to know that despite Bangladesh’s progress in terms of food security, there are still 24.2 million Bangladeshis who are

We are happy to learn that the pass rate of this year’s HSC exams has increased by a significant margin—from 64.55 percent last year to 71.85 percent this year.

We have had to witness a spate of deaths and injuries of people in recent times at authorised and unauthorised rail crossings across the country. If we look at the data, there are some 1,412 legal level crossings (approved by Bangladesh Railway) of which only a third is manned. Then we have some 1,085 illegal level crossings and about 87 percent of these are unmanned. Why do we have so many illegal level crossings?

It has been finally confirmed that the milk which we are consuming contains lead and cadmium, another heavy metal with equally dangerous potentials. This goes for both pasteurised and packaged milk being sold in the open market. Six government and non-government organisations with established credentials have carried out the tests and the results we feel are incontestable. We cannot but be concerned at the grave risk that people are being exposed to, children in particular.

The findings of the first-ever study on the level of mercury pollution in Bangladesh are alarming, to say the least. The one-year-long study, done by the Department of Environment (DoE), has found dangerous levels of mercury in both our air and water. According to

The movement by students for safer roads had moved the authorities into action and the Bangladesh Road Transport Act-2018 was enacted last August but it has not been implemented as yet. People are still being killed and maimed on our roads but from what has

It was a Super Sunday in England this week with the Cricket World Cup and Wimbledon finals taking place on the same day. Both the finals made for a thrilling watch and went on to make history. The nail-biting World Cup final at Lord’s between England and New Zealand led to a first-ever Super Over.

It is heartening to note that the South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon, during the official summit talks with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on July 14, has assured Bangladesh of considering duty-free and quota-free market access for all Bangladeshi products to their market.

A good part of the country’s north and eastern regions has been affected by severe flood. While this is a yearly phenomenon, this year both the north and the eastern and hilly regions have been affected simultaneously,

The United Nations Population Division in its data for 2017 estimates around 68 percent of our population are of working age.

The home minister’s disclosure in parliament that 294 Bangladeshi nationals have been killed by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) on the Bangladesh-India border in the last 10 years sums up the outcome of a decade’s worth of talks and initiatives by officials from both nations.

We are heartened to learn from the 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) that Bangladesh lifted some 19.3 million people out of poverty over the decade between 2004 and 2014.

We thank the Bangladesh Bank (BB) for its assurance that the depositors of People’s Leasing and Financial Services (PLFS) will get their money back as BB gears up to liquidate PLFS, a non-bank financial institution (NBFI);

We compliment the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for its probe report that has found negligence of some of its investigating officials that resulted in an innocent man, Jaha Alam, languishing in jail for three years.

Although the Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) authorities may choose to term its action against a physician of the hospital as a “warning” to him, many would see his transfer from CMCH to a Rangamati hospital as more of a punishment.