According to a report by International Data Corporation (IDC), Bangladesh has all the ingredients to become a high-tech manufacturing

This paper has covered the lack of safety of human hauler vehicles like the Laguna for many years. We have urged the government to take steps against such vehicles that have no papers and are driven by drivers who lack licenses and in many cases are underage.

The rationale that Chittagong Metropolitan Police Commissioner has recently given to justify the ongoing anti-drug operations, which

The government's decision to revive a project to construct a barrage on the Ganges near Rajbari, abandoned a year earlier because of its “faulty” design, has raised questions about the justification for such a move.

A Chinese consortium has become the Dhaka Stock Exchange's (DSE) strategic partner.

The easing of trade union rules is a positive step that indicates the government's intention to improve working conditions of factory workers.

It is not every day that we see this sort of effort on our lawless roads. A group of bus owners and transport workers took it upon themselves to check the papers of buses in the capital.

A recent report by a leading Bangla daily highlighted how, over the course of the last 10 years, a 22-acre lake in Mirpur has been illegally encroached at the behest, reportedly, of some members of the ruling party—at the central, thana and ward levels.

In March of last year, the Inter Sector Coordination Group (ISCG) had launched a Joint Response Plan appealing for USD 951 million as humanitarian assistance for the Rohingya refugees.

It goes without saying that law enforcement agencies are an integral part of any modern state and an indispensable element of good governance. Thus its proper functioning, unfettered by politicisation or corruption, is crucial, since that defines the condition of the state as regards the level of individual and collective security, and of freedom as enshrined in the constitution, which consequently engenders public confidence in the state apparatus.

It is after a long time that the BNP has been able to organise a political rally without much let or hindrance, and what is a natural affair in the politics of a country elsewhere, becomes a matter for complimenting the administration, that being an exception rather than the common in Bangladesh.

We would have hoped that in this digital age, the Myanmar government would have thought twice before doctoring images taken from the Bangladesh genocide in 1971 and the migration of Rwandan Hutu refugees in 1996 and passing them off as evidence of “Bengalis who had killed local ethnic populace”.

A few months back, Jatri Kalyan Samity found that at least 339 people were killed during Eid journeys between June 11 and 23. Soon after, we witnessed a massive student movement aimed at bringing reforms on the roads, sparked off by the deaths of two students.

There is manslaughter and there is murder. The circumstances of deaths in the last few days caused by dangerous and reckless driving would certainly fall under the latter category. The roads have become even more dangerous as the statistics of road crashes and casualties therefrom will show.

Bad loans in the 57 state-owned and private banks in operation, have piled up to the tune of Tk 84,054 crores.

Five hundred and forty-four is a horrendous number of people to have gone missing, reportedly, in the last eight years since 2008. Only a few of them have returned; unfortunately 300 of them remain unaccounted for. It is a very sorry state where relatives of victims of such patently criminal acts should find themselves between the devil and the deep sea.

The finding of a survey that 83 percent female garment workers have faced some form of sexual harassment in their workplace is shocking. The survey also found that many of the garment factories do not have any committee for lodging complaints of sexual harassment which is mandatory as per the direction of the High Court.

The Election Commission's plan to use Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the next general election is surprising, given the very little time at hand to handle a logistical challenge of this scale.

As we take stock of measures taken after a month since the school students came out on to the roads demanding safer roads, there is nothing to write home about.

The chilling story of Rezaul Karim, the man allegedly pushed off a minibus by the helper and then squashed to death by the driver of the minibus he was riding, sends shivers down the spine! The incident occurred in City Gate area near the port city on August 28. Witnesses on the bus have stated that Karim had had an altercation with the helper and going by what his co-passengers have said, the manner in which the man was literally shoved out of the bus and run over is tantamount to murder.