Although the day's advance tickets marking Eid-ul-Azha had been sold out within the morning hours, some 20 to 30 people were still sitting on the floor marking their position in queues with newspapers and clothes before the counters at Kamalapur Railway Station yesterday around 2:00pm.

With bulk of the population unable to afford treatment of life threatening ailments in private medical hospitals, their fate is decided largely by luck when it comes to availing intensive care unit (ICU) facilities in public hospitals.

We welcome the government initiative to formally launch a $1.7 billion project, Skills for Employment and Investment Programme, to train

Supreme Court Bar Association President Khandker Mahbub Hossain yesterday requested the United Nations Commission on Human

A new Dhaka master plan has been drafted. And apart from saying that the old master plan was drawn up sitting at home, the minister for housing has not offered any rationale for why it wasn't implemented.

We congratulate the Prime Minister on winning the prestigious Champions of the Earth Award for her farsighted initiatives to address the challenges of climate change.

The value added tax on English medium schools is burdensome for many families and discriminatory against the students, parents and legal experts say.

The decision of the High Court to scrap the abhorrent law that legitimised all actions under Operation Clean Heart is a landmark judgement.

We welcome the cabinet's move to withdraw the 7.5 percent VAT that was imposed on the student tuition fees of the private universities.

Today is the first death anniversary of Miah Abdur Razzaque; a former

Greed and injustice are gradually putting the small population of Khasis of Moulavibazar's Kulaura and Srimangal upazillas under stress with the local administration, reportedly, putting pressure on the small indigenous group to give up the land they have been living on for generations and paying tax for it.

Our farmers are always in a catch 22 situation. They are doomed if they don't grow enough and they are doomed if they grow more than enough. Growing bumper crops has become a bane for our farmers as a report in this paper so glaringly exposed.

The 8th death anniversary of Mohammad Shaheb Ali, father of Samakal staff reporter SM Munna Miah also former executive member of Dhaka Reporters Unity, will be held today.

AFM Shamsur Rahman died of old-age complications on Friday at Apollo Hospital in the capital. He was 89.

Md Alauddin Siddiqui, former secretary general of Krishibid Institution Bangladesh, died from cardio-respiratory failure on September 5, aged 79.

Come every Eid, homegoers are faced with the same old ticketing trouble. With Eid still weeks away, passengers are already struggling to obtain tickets for

We are all for reducing workers' cost of overseas employment. To this end we had supported the ministry of overseas employment's G2G (government-to-

The school for underprivileged children in Laxmipur of Rajshahi offers promise. Situated on a donated piece of railway land, the 'School of Hope', established and run by 24 university students, offers free education, books and school supplies to 35 children who found all doors of opportunities slammed before them.

Women's participation in the Bangladesh economy stands at 34 per cent, as opposed to 82 per cent for men. According to the recently unveiled World Bank report titled 'Women, Business and the Law', Bangladesh can add a further 1.8 per cent to its current GDP growth of 6 per cent annually.

KJ Hamida Khanam, a former lawmaker and a BNP leader, died at a hospital in the capital yesterday, aged 75, says a press release.