According to the recent findings of Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB), the living cost in Dhaka has increased by 6.5 percent in 2019 due to the rising prices of essential commodities and services.

We welcome the High Court’s directive to the authorities to ban single-use plastic products in coastal areas, hotels, motels and restaurants across the country within a year.

We are outraged at yet another deplorable incident of rape of a university student near what is one of the busiest thoroughfares in Dhaka...

A report by The Daily Star published on January 6 has revealed the sufferings of the Kora community, a small ethnic group living in

This year’s Police Week has come with a lot of new demands from the members of the force, including perks like special residential facilities for high ranking officers

On the occasion of the 72nd founding anniversary and reunion of Bangladesh Chhatra League on January 4, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

While it is surely commendable that electricity connections in off-grid areas by public agencies have increased, it is a matter of...

The killing of top Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani by a US drone strike, followed by another strike on a convoy in Iraq, have pushed the world to the brink of a major disaster.

It is alarming that the number of drug addicts is on the rise in the country.

It is heartening to hear from the Law Minister that the government is taking initiatives to settle the enormous number of pending cases in the courts, and that at least five to six lakh cases will be cleared from the existing backlog within the year.

The government has decided to fix a uniform interest rate for all types of deposits at (6 percent) and slash interest rate to single-digit for borrowing (at 9 percent) from April 1. There are four parties to this decision.

A report in this paper regarding the sorry state of the National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital has left us aghast at the

We are worried to learn that 20 jute mill workers had to be taken to hospital in Khulna as they fell sick while continuing their fast-

It is unfortunate that among the 74 industrial estates of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC), only a handful are running with some form of efficiency.

It is truly inspiring that our girls continued to perform extraordinarily in the two biggest public examinations in the country—Primary Education Completion Examination (PECE) and Junior School Certificate (JSC) Examinations—last year, outdoing their male counterparts in terms of participation rate,

While it is unacceptable in a democracy that peaceful protesters would be beaten up by the police, such incidents often take place in the country violating people’s constitutional right.

It is an exciting prospect to be entering a new decade with all its promises to bring our civilisation forward.

Sadly, only about 44 percent or an estimated 2.5 lakh Bangladeshi workers who went abroad were deemed to be “skilled” out of some 6 lakh migrant workers who found work in overseas labour markets.

It is most unfortunate that despite being fined several times by the Department of Environment (DoE) in the last three years for illegally cutting the hills of Chattogram’s Mirsarai and Sitakunda upazilas, certain companies, including some renowned ones, have not stopped the illegal practice.

The National River Conservation Commission’s recommendation to hand jail terms to river-polluters should come as no surprise given the rampant encroachment of our rivers.