In the first place, it took a long 10 years to start the trial of the murder case of former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria. The inordinate time taken to start a murder trial defies logic, even by our standards.

The lack of any medical facilities in or around the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate which poses severe threat to the health and safety of around 1.29 lakh workers employed in the leather industry, is simply unacceptable.

A recent report published by Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity, a passenger welfare body, paints a grim picture of the number of people killed in accidents in 2018 across the country.

It is quite outrageous that there was a delay by the police in bringing a number of rape victims to hospital for medical examination even after the filing of a case, making it difficult for doctors to find any meaningful evidence of rape by then.

While the rate of acid attacks has been decreasing across the country, as per the government and other sources, the conviction rate in such cases filed in the last 19 years is very low.

The domestic production of rice has increased substantially, while the price in global market has been stable, if not reduced. Yet, the domestic market has experienced an unexplained hike in the price of rice.

The statistics are shocking. A report by Bangladesh Children's Rights Forum presents a very grim picture of the safety of children in our society, where more than 2000 children fell victim to different kinds of hazards last year.

Less than a week ago, we wrote an editorial on how a syndicate of clearing and forwarding (C&F) agents in collusion with importers, and possibly port officials, were able to clear some 4,000 consignments using forged documents over a two-year period.

It is quite ludicrous that a physically challenged man whose right arm has been deformed since birth has been made one of the 52 people accused of violently attacking the police using sharp

The road transport and bridges minister's remark that he is well aware of what is going on in the trouble-ridden Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) comes across as more of an

We are surprised to learn that a secretary of the railway division under the former communication ministry (now ministry of road transport and bridges), who was made OSD (Officer on Special Duty) in 2011, has gone on post-retirement leave with the same status.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has introduced a telephone hotline recently and has been getting calls about absentee doctors in district hospitals and health complexes.

State-owned banks have assessed that influential defaulters are to blame for the epidemic of loan defaulting and the continuously

The government's ban on import and sale of meat and bone meal (MBM), a kind of poultry feed, is quite alarming for a number of reasons, including the fact that MBM poses a major public health risk.

It is unthinkable that illegal sand sifters have the gall to physically attack an assistant commissioner (land) and other officials.

It is very unfortunate that the initiative taken by the two city corporations of Dhaka to install tactile tiles on footpaths to facilitate the movement of physically challenged people has failed to bring any positive results.

One needs hardly restate the importance of proper medical waste management (MWM). Yet apparently, this matter of public health has not gotten the attention it deserves from the related quarters.

In the first 18 days of this year alone, 23 incidents of rape and attempted rape were reported in a leading Bangla daily.

While more and more women have been entering the job market every year—both formal and informal—they are still facing serious wage discrimination.

The rationale being used by a number of privately-owned banks to bring back an archaic management practice, i.e. centralising all decisions and stripping branches of that crucial role that made banking easy for customers is that it will stop the flood of nonperforming loans (NPLs) that has engulfed the banking sector.