It is truly humbling and inspiring to see the efforts of voluntary organisations such as “Mehman” in coming forward for those in need during this pandemic.

If our year-long struggle against Covid-19 has taught us anything, it is that a unique health crisis of this nature requires a unique response, unencumbered by the limitations of a past-bound mentality.

Following a video conference, the foreign ministers of six countries including Bangladesh, China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal issued a joint statement on April 28 expressing their desire to work closely in various regional initiatives to defeat Covid-19.

Recent studies have revealed the woeful state of the mental health of our country’s healthcare professionals amidst a raging pandemic.

We welcome the government’s decision to join five other South Asian countries in a multilateral effort to ensure vaccine and oxygen supply among the countries.

The second wave of the coronavirus coupled with the most recent round of lockdown, which took effect from April 14, has once again laid bare the extreme vulnerabilities faced by the urban poor in Bangladesh.

Not surprisingly, the administration finds itself on the horns of a dilemma. With the violent onslaught of the second wave of Covid-19 in various mutated forms deadlier than previous ones,

With Serum Institute of India failing on its agreement to provide three crore vaccine shots in six instalments, the Bangladesh government has finally started to explore alternative sources for the Covid-19 vaccine.

Recent media reports have highlighted that during this Ramadan, prices of medium-sized rice in the retail market have gone up by 1.89 percent per kg than the usual rate, while prices of coarse rice has also increased up to 4.35 percent per kg.

Amidst lingering tensions between the government and Hefazat-e-Islam, the combined Islamic education board of Qawmi madrasas has decided that teachers and students of the Qawmi madrasas will stay away from all sorts of political activities.

It’s concerning that around 78 percent households primarily run by women have been facing acute financial distress during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, caused by sudden job losses,

The last thing that we wanted to hear now was that Bangladesh should not expect to get the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from India anytime soon.

The fire at a building with a chemical warehouse in Armanitola that left four people dead and 25 others injured was a tragedy waiting to happen.

he government’s decision to reopen shops and malls from Sunday, just as the recent “strict” lockdown was beginning to curb the rate of new Covid-19 cases and deaths, is bewildering.

According to a report published by this daily two days ago, a majority of the 5,700 kilometres of embankments surrounding 19 coastal districts are insufficient in preventing floods, increase in salinity and tidal surges caused by cyclones.

Rights organisation Ain O Salish Kendra on April 22 filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the authorities concerned to conduct a judicial inquiry into the killings of workers at SS Power I Plant at Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila on April 17.

We note with some hope that both the daily rate of new Covid-19 infection and the positivity rate have been declining over the past few days.

The vaccination campaign in Bangladesh is set to suffer a major setback as, according to the CEO of the Serum Institute of India, “there is no clarity” on vaccine exports from India at least before June-July.

We wholeheartedly agree with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s call for Covid 19 vaccines to be declared as a global public good that needs to be

We are deeply concerned by the findings of a survey conducted by the Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) and the Brac Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD),