This year’s Durga Puja, which ended yesterday with the Dashami, has been a more muted celebration than usual, as have been all other religious

It is a matter of grave concern that the numbers of new Covid-19 cases in the country are refusing to show any signs of significant decline. In fact,

To say that it has been a difficult journey for us over the last seven months of Covid-19 would be an understatement. Nearly six thousand people

In the midst of hopes that a coronavirus vaccine could be ready by early next year, the government of Bangladesh has asked for more than USD 1.5

Medical services in remote areas are either non-existent or hours away, making it virtually impossible for emergency patients to be given medical

While Bangladesh needs more in terms of money and material help for the Rohingya refugees, that is but a temporary palliative that will do very

In an event organised on the occasion of the National Road Safety Day 2020, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina instructed the authorities concerned to

A recent report published in this paper reveals that the already pathetic state of the legal framework governing the mental health sector in our country

October 22 was the National Road Safety Day and we cannot help but wonder how road safety can be ensured when the country has only 109 motor

We are horrified and outraged that only days after the horrendous gang rape of a woman in Noakhali, which the perpetrators filmed and later

We welcome the parliamentary standing committee on environment’s decision to make public the names of 90,000 individuals and organisations

According to a global report from the US-based Health Effects Institute and Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation that was released yesterday,

Even during a period when the poor are enduring tremendous hardship, they continue to fall victim to disingenuity, greed and inequity of traders. It

The pandemic has affected all businesses, big or small, in the country as elsewhere in the world. But while the losses they suffered varied widely—

It is unfortunate that despite all the health hazards related to waste management, Gazipur City Corporation made no progress in relocating the

Child marriage has always been a huge obstacle to development for countries like Bangladesh that has one of the highest prevalence of it. Now with

A photo published in this paper yesterday of a steel rerolling mill in the residential area of Munshikhola in Pagla of Narayanganj emitting toxic gas, is nothing out of the ordinary, yet it highlights how the authorities seem to have turned a blind eye to such flagrant degradation of the environment.

We condemn the repeated attacks on the anti-rape protesters who were on a long march from Dhaka to Noakhali by the men of ruling party MP in

Seven months since the onset of Covid-19, the RMG industry in the country appears to be reeling from the initial shock of losing out billions of

It is good news that Bangladesh has moved 13 notches up from last year’s 88th position, ranking 75th out of 107 countries in the Global Hunger