WHO Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus has some very bad news for us, cautioning the world that the coronavirus pandemic may get even worse if countries around the globe, and that includes most countries, fail to adhere to strict healthcare precautions.

Police have reportedly arrested three men in connection with the trafficking of young women to Dubai and forcing them into prostitution.

A recent report in this daily shows that the coronavirus positivity rate in the country has soared in the last few days, despite a decline in the number of tests during this period.

According to a telesurvey report conducted by Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF), child marriage has sharply increased. MJF found 462 girls being married off in June, and 170 girls getting married in May.

A bridge on the Dhaleswari river at Charabari in Tangail Sadar upazila is on the verge of breaking down as earth from one of its approach roads has become displaced due to heavy rain and strong currents in the river.

It was inevitable. And we had predicted this outcome since the very seminal stages of the outbreak of the pandemic and of the country’s going into lockdown.

Malaysia is planning to introduce an e-wages system which will alert the government in case foreign workers working on Malaysian territory do not get

We are appalled to know that two-thirds of the country’s private clinics and diagnostic centres have been operating without valid licences since

As the pandemic continues to challenge every nook and corner of our healthcare sector, which is struggling to put up with the influx of patients

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) published a list on July 9 of 14 blacklisted contractors who had misappropriated over Tk 100

The discovery of a hospital’s staff engaged in issuing fake Covid-19 test reports to unsuspecting patients is deeply worrying at a time when

After the government imposed a countrywide shutdown in late March, it announced a number of stimulus packages to help people and businesses cope with the economic shocks of the pandemic.

The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Bangladesh has reached over 1.7 lakh. Now is the time to ramp up tests to measure the spread of

We appreciate the government’s initiative to distribute free rice to the extreme poor people ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.

We have long stopped being surprised by news of government projects overrunning time and cost, but the Khulna-Mongla Port Railway Project has

New figures released by Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) have once again put the spotlight on the harsh toll that the Covid-19 pandemic is

Jahanara Akhter’s story (published in this paper yesterday) is nothing short of exhilarating. A young girl born in an impoverished family in Ghatail

It is unfortunate that despite all the warnings from environmentalists regarding the dangers of loss of forest cover in the context of our planet’s

Not very long ago we had warned the administration to initiate actions to thwart a dengue onslaught, starting with anti-dengue drives by the two city

The way the Indian Border Security Force has been killing Bangladeshi nationals on a regular basis makes us wonder why, despite many flag meetings