A six-year-old city corporation initiative to build a 10-storey shopping mall at Bangabazar never saw the light of day because of disagreements between the shop owners and the corporation.

The Bangladesh women’s football team have been injecting fresh air for years amidst all the doldrums.

The Election Commission has decided not to use Electronic Voting Machines in the next parliamentary election.

Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk), the capital’s building-regulation authority, has found that 683 buildings in eight zones of the capital are using their basements to store flammable items, violating building-construction rules.

Patients across the country are forced to pay almost double the usual fares for ambulances because of a cartel of ambulance owners at public hospitals.    

Karimon Nesa, mother of Prothom Alo reporter Samsuzzaman Shams, came all the way to Dhamrai from her Manikganj home to attend a human chain demanding the release of her son and scrapping of the controversial Digital Security Act.

A sense of injustice being perpetrated against them by state actors is increasingly building up among the common people.

Sultana Jasmine, 41, who died in Rab custody on March 24, had suffered the trauma of domestic violence by her husband in her early life.

“I will not work at this house anymore. They torture me. I will come back to you.” This was what Iti Akter said to her mother Sarkis Akter in her last phone call in the evening of January 28 last year.

Sultana’s death only re-emphasises just how helpless we are at the hands of law enforcement members.

Air pollution is responsible for about 20 percent of the total premature deaths in Bangladesh, says a World Bank report.

Prices of essentials are rising sharply and going beyond the people’s reach due partly to domestic reasons, including market distortions by a small number of dominant firms and lax regulations, said the Centre for Policy Dialogue yesterday.

“We have been victims of genocide for decades and acknowledged as the most persecuted minority, yet the world has cared little about our legitimate rights and claims. It is time we took charge of our own destiny.”

The government has declared the national budget at a time when the world is still reeling from the Covid pandemic.

It is not just anti-corruption HRDs who fear being targeted in Bangladesh.

Time and again, it has been proven that, when it comes to justice in Bangladesh, some are more equal than others.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal proposed to withdraw the existing 5 percent supplementary duty on all types of polythene bags, plastic bags (including oven plastic bags) and wrapping materials made of polyethylene.

The Election Commission of Bangladesh has been mired in controversies over the last decade.

Enhancing production capacity now, without any feasibility studies or without regard to what future headwind we may be facing, would be risky and reckless.

The demands of the labour market are constantly changing, and so are the relative importance of different skills.