While conducting an epidemiological surveillance is crucial to understand and fight the outbreak of an extremely contagious disease like Covid-19, it is worrying that we are yet to carry out any such surveillance to handle the outbreak of the disease in the country.

As we celebrate International Mother’s Day today, remaining confined to our homes, we, in fact, get a better chance to see the hard work our mothers have to do every single day only to make our lives comfortable.

The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the world is at risk of “mega-famines” as COVID-19 cases are expected to peak in the world’s most fragile countries in the next three to six months.

There is little doubt that as with most crisis situations, the lockdown to stop the current COVID-19 pandemic has affected women and children

It is worrying that as the country is preparing to ease the lockdown before Eid to mitigate the economic fallout of the crisis, the ground realities

As the government has decided to reopen shopping malls, all types of shops and businesses on a limited scale from May 10 ahead of the Eid,

A cartoonist, a writer and an activist were among the four latest victims of arrest under the draconian Digital Security Act, which it seems is being

It is heart-warming to learn from a report in The Daily Star that a group of Dhaka University students led by a DUCSU member has been serving free

In a press conference in mid-March, WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had memorably said it is not possible to “fight a fire blindfolded” and

One notices a malicious tendency in some unprincipled and dishonest people to exploit and misuse relief measures of the government, particularly

As economic pain from the coronavirus lockdown increasingly bites the country, the government has decided to reopen the economy partially.

At a time when most of humanity is subdued because of the ongoing pandemic, Bidyanondo Foundation has been one of the first responders to the crisis, providing food and medical safety gear to people who needed them the most.

The picture in yesterday’s front page says it all. Hundreds of garment workers leaving their factory in Ashulia in crowds, totally disregarding the government’s social distancing directives.

It is disturbing to learn that the police hospital in Dhaka has been overwhelmed by patients due to the number of COVID-19 infected police personnel.

We are worried at the way the Digital Security Act has increasingly been used to arrest and intimidate journalists across the country.

It is a matter of grave concern that we still do not have enough designated hospitals or institutions to conduct Covid-19 tests. While initially only the

An overwhelming number of people, both in the formal and informal sectors, have lost their jobs in Bangladesh due to the pandemic, but unfortunately the government lacks any data on the actual number of people who may have been impacted.

We are alarmed to learn that a highly toxic ship named J Nat, once used for storing oil by offshore oil and gas companies, is headed towards Bangladesh from Indonesia carrying toxic waste and may reach our coast in a week’s time.

In a shocking development amidst the countrywide lockdown, thousands of garment workers have returned to work in Dhaka, Gazipur, Narayanganj

Sixteen Bangladeshi civil society organisations have urged UN Secretary-General Antonio Gueterres to request host countries to put a hold on