One of our worst fears of current times is too close to realisation for comfort, as the cases of dengue infections keep rising. The last major dengue upsurge was in 2019—when 101,354 people had contracted the virus and at least 179 had died—and the situation this year appears to be even more frightening given the accompanying Covid-19 pandemic and how it has all but crippled our healthcare system.

We are disappointed, but not at all surprised, to find that the government’s ambitious six-day vaccination programme, which aimed to inoculate around one crore people in six days from August 7, has had to be revised even before it could take off.

Severe storms and lightning are common during the June-September monsoon season in Bangladesh, where each year lightning kills more than 200 people, mostly farmers in their fields.

We are deeply concerned to find that, due to excess liquidity in the banking sector, savers and some small borrowers are being penalised to ensure hefty dividends for shareholders.

The decision on not allowing anyone above the age of 18 on the streets or onto any mode of transport unless they are vaccinated—announced by the Liberation War affairs minister after an inter-ministerial meeting on Tuesday—created a wave of criticism against the government’s Covid-19 policy for being out of touch with reality and seemingly created on the fly. How else can one explain this outlandish idea when, according to the government’s own data, only eight percent of its targeted population have received the first dose of the vaccine?

Residents from areas near the Matuail landfill have been suffering from its awful stench for nearly five to six years due to lack of waste management capacity at the site.

One must admit that in the last two decades or so, the private hospitals have helped in supplementing the public healthcare sector in Bangladesh to a great extent.

Schools and colleges in Bangladesh have remained closed for more than 500 days now,

At almost every step of its response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Bangladesh has suffered from a number of recurring setbacks—prominent among them a

With the government suddenly announcing on Friday that export-oriented factories will operate per normal starting August 1—despite the DGHS warning

Waterlogging has now become a permanent problem plaguing three upazillas of Jashore and two upazilas of Khulna since the early 80s. But the measures taken to mitigate, if not cure the problem, does not seem to be in accord with suggestions of most of the experts in this field.

A disturbing trend of more pregnant women passing away from Covid-19 has been observed recently. A week ago, Dhaka Medical College and Hospital had

On Friday, a few hours after the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) disclosed its recommendation to extend the current strict lockdown, the government’s cabinet division issued a circular stating that export-oriented factories will be able to operate as per usual starting today,

The World Bank, as part of its proposal for preparing a global Refugee Policy Review Framework has suggested to the Bangladesh government through a letter to grant freedom of movement of refugees, that they be given birth certificates, education, jobs and infrastructure.

We are shocked to find that the residents of Patuakhali and Barguna—around 28 lakh people—do not have access to crucial healthcare to treat critical Covid-

During the pandemic, many brilliant minds in our country have come up with prototypes of various life-saving devices. Their urgency was bolstered keeping

It seems neither the Covid-19 nor the dengue virus is backing down from their sweeping spread across the country. What is worse is that most patients of

According to various studies, human trafficking is the third largest crime industry in the world behind drug dealing and arms trafficking—which are also often

We are pleased to hear that the government has undertaken a new project to support migrant workers who have returned home to Bangladesh during the pandemic.

We are deeply saddened by the terrible tragedy caused by landslides in Cox’s Bazar that took the lives of seven people including five Rohingyas. A 14-year-old girl, nine-year-old boy and a year old infant are among the dead in this tragedy.