This recurring road carnage has to stop
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Fix the testing gap, contain measles
6 May 2026, 17:44 PM
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Press freedom should not be elusive
10 hour(s) ago
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Restore NHRC’s functionality
5 May 2026, 19:15 PM
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Improve health services in the hills
6 May 2026, 11:00 AM
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Measles disaster warrants answers
4 May 2026, 18:45 PM
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Form a permanent media commission
5 May 2026, 12:00 PM
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End the motherhood penalty at work
4 May 2026, 12:00 PM
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Chaos returns in Dhaka’s underworld
3 May 2026, 18:50 PM
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Whom does a city corporation work for?
3 May 2026, 12:00 PM
Editorial
Migrant workers still victims of 'visa trade'
It is shocking to know that despite the government's efforts to fix the cost of getting a migrant worker visa, brokers are still exploiting workers, extracting huge sums.
10 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Militants active again
We applaud the preemptive drive by police forces on Wednesday that resulted in the recovery of grenades, bomb making materials and cleavers.
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Less than one percent defaulter
In our country where the national average for default on loans is around 10 percent, women entrepreneurs default less than 1 percent.
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Open manholes turning into death traps
Shanu Miah, a middle-aged man, fell to death in an open box culvert in the Paltan area this week.
8 March 2017, 18:05 PM
She stands out from the crowd
As we observed International Women's Day yesterday, it was very inspiring to find a news report on a woman police officer take it upon
8 March 2017, 18:00 PM
The scar of forced marriage
A recent household survey conducted by Oxfam among 330 households in four districts of the country reveals that forty-nine percent of women had not given consent to their parents to go ahead with their marriages.
7 March 2017, 18:05 PM
Pollution: killer of children
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), pollution in its many manifestations is killing some 280,000 children in Bangladesh annually.
7 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Four years since Taqi's murder
It is perhaps the worst injustice when parents of a slain child have to suffer the agony of knowing that the murderers are allowed to walk freely because they have the protection of powerful individuals.
6 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Classes in school veranda!
It is unsettling to note that classes for students of a primary school in Jhalakathi are being conducted on the school veranda for the last two years because of the dilapidated condition of their classrooms.
6 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Extrajudicial killing
At the same time, the administration has not been able to give any credible explanation for the large number of people killed under questionable circumstances, unlawful detentions, and forced disappearances that have been reported. Oftentimes, it has gone so far as to even deny the existence of such unlawful activities, accusing those missing of 'hiding', while dismissing concerns regarding their safety as expressed by their relatives.
5 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Ghost drivers!
Is it any wonder that with more than a million vehicles on the roads being driven by people without valid license or no license at all, 64 people are killed every day on the roads?
5 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Persecution of the Rohingya
The UN official stated that the “systematic, structural, and institutional discrimination in policy, law and practice, as well as the long-standing persecution, against the Rohingya and other minorities in Rakhine State” calls for the COI, which is the highest-level probe body of the UN.
4 March 2017, 18:00 PM
CETP lacks desalinisation component
We are stunned as to how planners of the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate failed to plan for a desalinisation facility when designing the
4 March 2017, 18:00 PM
A welcome move by the HC
The High Court's order to the governor of the Bangladesh Bank (BB), to submit a list of business entities and individuals whose loans were waived...
3 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Poultry industry needs support
At the opening of the 10th International Poultry Show and Seminar in Dhaka, poultry entrepreneurs stated that Tk. 30,000 crore was needed to meet the increased demand for chicken meat and eggs by 2021.
3 March 2017, 18:00 PM
33 hours of transport strike
What has the nearly two-day long transport strike achieved except subjecting the people to unmitigated suffering? It has wreaked havoc
2 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Kunio Hoshi killing verdict
In an exemplary show of timely disposal of a case, a Rangpur court on February 28 awarded death penalties to five militants who were
2 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Illegal chemical factories
The sheer number of risky, illegal chemical factories in Old Dhaka has turned the place into a ticking time bomb.
1 March 2017, 18:00 PM
A commendable initiative
For almost all people who have dealings with land, the visit to the land office can be daunting, because it often entails being swamped by brokers who promise the moon in return for a 'small fee', which is of course, speed money.
1 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Hooliganism at RU
The repeated attempts of the local unit of the ruling party to influence and obstruct the recruitment process at Rajshahi University (RU) is deplorable.
28 February 2017, 18:00 PM