The graduation to developing country status will affect all our industries in one way or another; therefore, the government has to try and create a more business-friendly environment in the country and provide greater support to our businesses.

Four state-run fertiliser factories are consuming a huge amount of natural gas to produce urea fertiliser at a much lower efficiency than their

The killing of a Notre Dame College student by a garbage compactor vehicle of the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) on November 24 has once again brought to light the sorry state of road safety in our country.

It is alarming that default loans in the banking sector in Bangladesh have surpassed Tk 1 lakh crore again, despite a relaxed loan

A recent study conducted by the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) has found that almost all clinically important and widely used antibiotics have lost their effectiveness by more than 50 percent.

We notice with a deep sense of consternation the rapid constriction of political space of the opposition, which has by now become a constant

The shocking murder of Syed Ahmed Sohel—a ward councillor of Cumilla City Corporation—and his associate Haripada Das, has left us deeply concerned about the current state of politics in the country, especially at the local level.

A recent study conducted by the health ministry has found that Bangladesh’s out-of-pocket (OOP) healthcare expenditure has been rising

The legal bindings stopping the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) from playing an effective role in preventing money laundering are counterproductive and should, therefore, be immediately removed.

It is good to see the government planning to merge the development and revenue budgets, amend income tax laws and establish a

Now that the Covid-19 situation has finally come under control in Bangladesh, it is careless of railway officials to plan trips to high-risk countries—that, too, at the public’s expense, and for reasons that the government’s own directives would not consider essential.

We are shocked to learn about the alleged involvement of a public university professor in the question paper leaks of five state-owned banks’

The recent and continued reports of increasing violence in the Rohingya refugee camps are deeply concerning.

Survey after survey has shown that the government’s stimulus packages for micro and small businesses have failed to deliver their desired results. This is

We are shocked to find out that the server of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) can be accessed and manipulated so easily by cybercriminals.

We are disheartened to learn about the findings of a study conducted by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), which

There is a clear pattern of attacks on parties that the ruling party does not approve of. While the party in power brags about people’s democratic rights on the one hand, its student wing continues to carry out regular attacks on people with different opinions and political views on the other.

For some time now, we have been seeing the central bank flouting its own rules and regulations, swaying to the tunes of big business

At COP26, we were proud to see Bangladesh stand up for the worst climate-affected countries and hold the world’s polluters to account.

We are concerned by the recent discovery that a racket—which includes top officials of the Jashore Board of Intermediate and Secondary