It is very unfortunate that the hospital staff are extorting poor patients at the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (Nitor), popularly known as Pangu Hospital, for getting a plaster or dressing.

A joint publication brought out by Oxfam, Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies (BILS) and Institute for Workers and Trade Unions in Vietnam paints a dismal picture of workers in Bangladeshi factories where Australian fashion brands source their apparels from.

The nation can breathe a sigh of relief. Luckily, the plot to hijack the Dubai-bound Biman flight on Sunday night was foiled and the armed man, who boarded the plane in Dhaka, was quickly neutralised without loss of life in a commando operation after the plane made an emergency landing in Chattogram.

Nine years after it was decided to relocate four types of industries—chemical, plastic, printing and light electronics—from Old Dhaka, the projects are still in their preliminary phases as this newspaper reported yesterday.

At a discussion on SDG implementation, speakers said it will be difficult for Bangladesh to achieve the set goals without creating jobs for the unemployed youth, and we agree with this assessment.

It is astonishing that the Sylhet-Tamabil- Jaflong road project used less than four percent of the budget in the two years since it was started. It is a four-year project taken up in 2017 and is supposed to be completed in 2021.

It is with great concern that we are witnessing a dangerous escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan after the deadly Pulwama attack, which claimed the lives of more than 40 Indian security personnel in the Indian-controlled Kashmir.

We are glad that Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has publicly stated that the government cannot avoid responsibility for the Chawkbazar tragedy. It is a refreshing change from what we usually witness in the aftermath of such incidents.

That ordinary people's life count for very little in the running of the affairs of the state has been proved once again by the recent tragedy.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on February 19, in an interview with the Dubai-based Khaleej Times, expressed her dismay that Myanmar had failed to create a condition conducive to the Rohingya repatriation.

Only two days ago, this paper ran an editorial on how chemical warehouses continue to operate in old Dhaka. By the government's own

It is unthinkable that 10,000 people should become homeless overnight as we saw happen with the residents of Dhaka's Bhasantek slum this week. An eviction drive launched by the National Housing Authority (NHA) on Tuesday has left thousands of people without a home—with nowhere to go.

Analysts at a seminar titled “Lack of corporate governance is the biggest barrier in Bangladesh for Japanese investors”, on February 19, stated that poor corporate governance and lack of quality manpower were the two major impediments holding back foreign direct investment (FDI) in Bangladesh.

As we observe the historic occasion when some valiant souls laid down their lives to establish the right of our mother tongue on this day in 1952

It is with shock and disbelief that we are informed through a news report that 31 bodies of premature babies were found in a dustbin of Sher-e-Bangla Medical College in Barishal.

Bangladesh Bank (BB) has given approval for three new banks to be floated at a time when the banking sector is both saturated and stressed due to nonperforming loans (NPLs) reaching dangerous levels.

Incredulously, the very person whose plainly insensitive comments had enraged students and sparked off mass demonstration in demand of road safety last year, has now been made the head of a 15-member committee on road safety.

It is extremely worrying that chemical warehouses continue to operate in Old Dhaka, which means that we have failed to draw lessons from the Nimtoli fire in 2010 that killed 123 people.

The government has been taking various measures to tackle the scourge of yaba in the country, some of which exceeded the bounds of legality.

It is reprehensible that some 6-7 lakh people in Dhaka had to suffer from complete or partial lack of gas supply without any warning whatsoever from the authorities.