We believe the government’s discussion to reopen schools on a limited scale giving priority to the SSC and HSC students is a prudent move. The

Amidst speculations of unrest created by Trump supporters and worries of domestic terrorism, Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the

The first consignment of Covishield vaccine from India arrived in Bangladesh on Thursday. India gifted Bangladesh 20 lakh doses of the Oxford

The state of rivers in Bangladesh has been a cause for concern for a while now, so much so that in 2019, the High Court declared rivers to be “legal

We all know how difficult it has been for school-going children to cope with their studies during almost eleven months of staying at home and not

When a public service agency embarks on a development or communications project based on faulty designs and no feasibility study, it is bound to

Unfortunately, there has been no letup in traffic accidents and death and injuries therefrom. Although the total number of road accidents in 2020 was

The government’s undertaking to hand over thousands of houses to the homeless across the country to mark the birth centenary of the Father of

The government’s decision to roll out two new stimulus packages for a total of Tk 2,700 crore is a welcome one. One of the stimulus packages is

It’s encouraging to learn from a recent report published by this paper that Bangladesh Railway (BR) has carried out a feasibility study to build a

The second phase of the four-stage local elections was held on Saturday in a total of 60 municipalities in the country, amidst reports of sporadic

It is concerning to learn that important pieces of case evidence are kept like garbage in many of the police maalkhanas (areas where evidence is

Since the beginning of last year, the epidemic of sexual violence against women and children in Bangladesh has dominated headlines, leading to

We are alarmed by the lack of preparedness to prevent bird strikes at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka, as revealed by a

We’re worried about the escalation of tensions and violence ahead of the Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) polls scheduled for January 27. On

We feel truly encouraged to know about a man in Faridpur who, despite losing both his arms in an accident, has been working with an unbeatable

We appreciate the High Court’s criticism of the government’s attempt to get a corruption case withdrawn in Sylhet, terming it a “naked interference”

It is encouraging to see what people can achieve when they join hands to make a difference in their own lives and communities. As reported in The

We must applaud the recent observation from the High Court which stated that “a handful corrupt police officials who have been tasked with the

We must applaud the recent observation from the High Court which stated that “a handful corrupt police officials who have been tasked with the duty to protect and preserve the life of innocent people of this country became errant…”, asking “how will the general people repose faith on the police force and find the police station as their safe place to register their grievance?” This observation was made in reference to the wrongful arrest and incarceration of Md Arman, who spent five years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit.