The moment we have all been waiting for is here. The ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 officially kicked off yesterday with England taking on South Africa at The Oval in London. The month-and-a-half-long cricket bonanza is surely going to be an exciting time for millions of lovers of the sport who wait for the tournament with bated breath for four long years.

During every Eid, holidaymakers have to go through intolerable sufferings. And as it seems, there will hardly be any exceptions this time, despite the fact that several steps have been taken by the government to ensure smooth Eid journeys for home-goers.

A rather distorted version of the old adage “Great things are done when men and mountains meet” has come to become the norm in our society.

We should be concerned at the recent revelation made by Save the Children regarding C-sections: 77 percent of C-Sections carried out across the country last year were medically unnecessary. The rate of C-section is more than 31 percent in the country which is way above the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommended range of 10-15 percent.

The government’s ongoing food grain procurement policy to help farmers has had the opposite results. Under the programme, the

The attack on Ducsu VP Nurul Haque Nur, along with several other quota reformists and at least one journalist, allegedly by a group of Chhatra League activists in Bogura on May 26, is condemnable.

A report in this daily yesterday shed light on the fact that only five percent of cases relating to road accidents result in conviction. The report also makes a mindboggling revelation: often times, the reason behind the accused getting away scot-free is law enforcers themselves.

Despite massive infrastructure development, development projects will not make Dhaka a better place to live because the city is massively overpopulated.

Between 2009 and 2018, since the Awami League government came to office, 507 people have become victims of enforced disappearances, according to the International Federation for Human Rights.

​That ails our secondary education system? A familiar litany of problems can be cited but a new report by The Daily Star has brought into focus a relatively underacknowledged factor:

We congratulate Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for winning a landslide victory in the Indian elections.

Once touted as a role model for other countries to follow, the country’s family planning services it seems have not been up to the mark

A roundtable organised recently by Prothom Alo highlighted the importance of skills-based education in Bangladesh.

It is very disappointing to learn that 10 years into the HC directive to form sexual harassment complaint committees at every educational institution and workplace, only 40 percent schools have complied.

Whenever Eid-ul-Fitr looms on the horizon, it is common to find operators of river vessels scampering to meet the high volume of passengers.

We thank the High Court (HC) for speaking out on the issue when it observed that the BB has been working in favour of loan defaulters; which has been in the public mind for a long time that undue privileges are being given to large-scale loan defaulters whilst penalising smaller ones.

We wonder what the State Minister for Foreign Affairs has meant by saying that the government has taken a zero-tolerance policy to prevent illegal migration.

The readymade garments (RMG) sector contributes 12.5 percent to GDP and accounts for 80 percent of our export basket.

We congratulate the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) on its innovative project called “Year-Round Fruit Production for Nutrition Improvement” which aims to make fruits available all year round so that the nutritional demands of the population are met.

Bangladesh’s economy apparently grew at 8.13 percent in the fiscal year 2018-19, the highest in the country’s history.