Over the last seven years, the number of registered vehicles has risen from 18.5 lakh (in 2013) to 42 lakh (in 2019), but Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) only

We are quite horrified to learn from a Daily Star report published on October 28 that untreated medical wastes are accumulating in the landfills of the country’s seven divisional cities—

The world in general and the Muslim world in particular must be heaving a sigh of relief at the news of Baghdadi’s death. While this has been welcomed by some world leaders, it is time to ask ourselves some hard questions about how such a callous man was allowed to grow and become one of the most notorious terrorists the world has seen.

Afire broke out in a 13-storey high, posh block of apartments in Dhanmondi residential area on October 26 where an elderly woman working as a household help perished after inhaling plumes of black smoke.

Bullying at schools, which often leaves negative impact on children’s mental development, is largely going unreported and thus unaddressed according to a report in this newspaper yesterday.

It is after navigating through many odds, overcoming numerous ups and downs, enduring frequent failures and heartbreaks, Bangladesh has ensconced itself in the world of

It has been six years since the body of 17-year-old Tanwir Muhammad Taqi, a brilliant student, was found on the bank of the river Shitalakkhya after he had gone missing for two days in March 2013.

While most government agencies remain focused on the problems of the big cities, we seldom see what is happening in rural areas.

As Bangladesh climbs up the ladder in the global economy, the need for homegrown talent and skills required by a changing job market is being increasingly felt.

It is heartening to see Bangladesh achieve an eight-place leap in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business 2020 index. In the latest edition of the study the country scored 168, as opposed to 176 in the previous year’s index.

A statement by a US official at a recent hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific in the US Congress in Washington, has brought to the fore the strange dichotomy Bangladesh faces in accomplishing an impressive growth rate record and yet performing not so well in terms of democratic practices.

According to the World Bank report titled “Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2019” (EBA), Bangladesh has one of the least favourable regulatory frameworks for farmers.

Time extensions on important public sector projects is nothing new in our country. However, when it comes to this particular project, one that was designed to facilitate manpower training in laboratory medicine at hospital and community levels, it warrants further attention.

Indeed, the media’s is not always the first door one should knock for either expressing or seeking redress of one’s grievances. And we believe that the striking cricketers should have placed their demands to the right quarters, the BCB, before going public on the matter. By the same token, we feel the BCB boss has overreacted in his response to the cricketers’ decision to go on strike.

As we observed the National Road Safety Day yesterday, with the government and various non-government organisations holding many programmes to mark the day, we cannot but feel disappointed at the slow progress of the government agencies concerned to make our roads safe.

We welcome the timely move by the prime minister’s ICT affairs advisor who stepped in to ward off a potentially volatile standoff between the telecom regulatory authority (BTRC) and two of the largest telecom operators, Grameenphone and Robi.

We would like to thank the parliamentary standing committee on public undertakings for finally taking to task the chief of the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA).

The recent violence in Bhola’s Borhanuddin upazila, which led to the deaths of four people and injuries of hundreds of others, is reminiscent of the sporadic episodes of communal violence that have often disturbed the religious harmony of our country in recent years.

It is heart-breaking to learn of yet another important waterbody—a stream, Bandarban’s Myaksi Chhara—being shrunk to a fraction of its original size because of the greed of land grabbers.

With most trains operating in the country’s northwestern and southern regions failing to run on time primarily due to inadequate capacity of railway tracks, Bangladesh Railway is adding new trains in the regions without doing any proper assessment.