The Digital Security Act, 2018 has proved to be even more contentious than the controversial Section 57 of the ICT Act, 2006 (as amended in 2013) it

It is unimaginable that the public administration ministry—or anyone else for that matter—would seek any sort of immunity for retired public servants, who

According to a DS report published yesterday, people have to pay around Tk 200 extra while buying a 12 kg LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) cylinder from the

A report published by Brac Migration Programme last April shows that among 417 migrant workers who had returned home amid the coronavirus epidemic,

Pictures of newly built tin shed low-cost houses, crumbling pathetically so soon after construction is an extremely good example of extraordinary bad

A recent report by the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) revealed that different types of emergency response equipment bought

The world is abuzz with the news reports by several major international news outlets that have revealed how people among 45 countries have been spied

The 14-day nationwide lockdown to curb the latest wave of Covid-19 officially started yesterday. With positivity rates stagnating at around 30 percent and the

We are appalled how the river Boral has been allowed to die leading to the destruction of such a crucial water body as Chalan Beel, becoming the victim of

Yet another incident of a minor girl domestic worker being tortured by her employees has been reported. Thankfully this time the alleged culprits—a lawyer and her husband—have been sent to remand for one day, for interrogation.

As we enter the final day before this year’s Eid-ul-Azha, the second-biggest religious festival of the country, it is more important than ever to remember its

Since the Covid-19 pandemic started in March last year, the cinema halls all over the country have been shut down following the health guidelines.

Adistressing report in this daily has brought to light the tragic consequences of the lockdown on the animals trapped in the pet shops in the city’s Katabon area. Behind closed shutters,

As the eight-day “easing” of the “strict” lockdown is passing us by, reports are flooding in from all directions about how health and safety regulations are neither being enforced nor being followed,

A report in this daily reveals how yaba pills are continuing to be smuggled into Bangladesh,

We’ve been here before. We’ve seen lockdown come and go with the same arbitrariness with which most decisions on this land are taken.

It has come out in a recent report by this newspaper that since early June, Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK) has been urging the government to purchase 20 million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for the coronavirus.

We fail to understand the wisdom behind the government’s decision to ease lockdown at a time when the numbers of daily new coronavirus cases and

It is quite disappointing that cattle markets around the capital—which are not set to open before July 17—are already seeing throngs of sellers and potential buyers, most of them not wearing masks, let alone practicing social distancing.

We applaud the government decision to introduce relief packages worth Tk 3,200 crore to segments of the population who have been dealt a fresh blow by