There is nothing worse than to find oneself stranded abroad without one’s passport. But if the person happens to be someone to whom a passport is more than a travel document, being without a passport becomes a matter of survival.

Despite the rapid increase in Covid-19 infections over the past weeks, the number of daily tests has been sharply decreasing, increasing the risk factor of people carrying the virus remaining undetected and therefore infecting others.

We are relieved to know about the government’s latest initiative to turn Dhaka North City Corporation’s (DNCC) kitchen market in Mohakhali into a makeshift hospital dedicated to Covid-19 treatment.

It’s hard to justify, especially in a pandemic year, the consistently abysmal performance of the health sector.

It is concerning to know that more than three percent of the labour force have lost jobs and around 16.38 million people have become newly poor during the ongoing pandemic.

hould people have to die for demanding their rights and their dues? It makes sad reading that five workers of the under-construction coal-fired power plant in Banshkhali were killed and at least 21 others injured during a clash with police on Saturday.

We are appalled by the news of a journalist—Jahangir Alam Shahin—being assaulted and tortured allegedly by BGB men in Kulaghat while he was trying to get information on incidents of drug smuggling in the area.

We are disheartened at the ever-increasing daily Covid-19 death rate in the country, with Friday seeing a record 101 deaths. Though it should be

Ramadan, the holiest month for Muslims all around the world, started on April 14 in Bangladesh. This is a time when Muslims engage in self-

We welcome the announcement from the government that it will be providing another round of cash assistance to nearly 35 lakh poor families facing income losses and hardships amid the ongoing nationwide lockdown.

Although the daily rate of Covid-19 infections seems to have gone down slightly, from being 7,201 on April 12 to 5,185 on April 14, the situation does not seem very promising yet,

In a joint letter addressed to Joe Biden, more than 60 former heads of state, including former leaders of Britain and France, and over 100 Nobel

The best strategy to fight the pandemic is to stifle its spread. This was brought out quite clearly during the last one year of our experience of the virus.

According to a new report released by the World Bank, the ongoing pandemic has reversed Bangladesh’s steady trend of poverty reduction,

According to a report published by The Daily Star yesterday, Bangladesh ranks lowest among the South Asian countries in terms of Covid-19 testing, with only 30 tests per 1,000 people.

As economic pain from the coronavirus fall-out continues to bite the country, it’s the poor and ultra-poor who stand to suffer the most. This was as true during the first nationwide lockdown (or “general holiday”) last year as it is on the eve of the second,

It seems that the case of mistaken identity has become endemic with us. We have heard of people suffering in jail because of it, we have heard of people released from it because of it and now we have a genuine freedom fighter being deprived of his allowances because of it.

The recent discovery of the body of 45-year-old trader Hasan Ali by Gaibandha police, found hanging in a toilet of ruling party leader Masud

We welcome the government’s latest decision to impose a week-long strict lockdown to curb the rapid transmission of the Covid-19 virus, starting from April 14.

Police arrested four Rab members and a civilian woman on Friday in the capital’s Hatirjheel on the charges of abducting, torturing, and demanding ransom from one Tamzid Hossain.