It is unthinkable that the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) is relying on manual inspection of trucks and buses to verify whether they are fit for the road! Sadly,

Strangely, the High Court order to various ministries that had been directed by the HC in July 2011 to close down factories producing poultry and fish feed using tannery waste remains unimplemented.

We are shocked by the news of the humiliating treatment inflicted on the new Ducsu VP by Chhatra League activists at the Salimullah Muslim Hall of Dhaka University on Tuesday.

It is outrageous that yet another woman was gang-raped in Noakhali's Subarnachar upazila on March 31, by the supporters of an upazila vice-chairman candidate, for campaigning for another vice-chairman candidate.

When we learn that procedural delays have held up the procurement of much-needed modern equipment for our fire services for the last five years, it gives us pause to think that perhaps fire hazards and firefighting were not high in the list of priorities of policymakers.

It comes as no surprise that a probe report of a committee formed by the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) found 90 percent

The High Court has expressed the sentiments of the common citizens in declaring that even if half the corruption in Petrobangla and Titas was stemmed, raising the prices of gas would have been unnecessary.

That we as a people have scant regard for the natural resources that we are blessed with is well-proven, and well-proven too is the fact that the authorities respond to a situation only when it is too late.

Days after the death of 26 people in Thursday's Banani inferno, a massive fire swept through the Gulshan-1 DNCC kitchen market on Sunday, burning down over 200 shops.

Various poacher gangs are decimating the spotted deer population in Bhola's Monpura forest. The forest, spread out across 5,000 hectares of land, is supposed to be a safe haven for spotted dear.

THE recent discoveries by police of the bullet-hit body of a 35-year-old Rohingya man near Noyapara Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf and the body of an 18-year-old Rohingya woman recovered from Balukhali refugee camp

Hardly had we gotten over the Old Dhaka fire, when we are again left to count the dead bodies of people who per-ished in the inferno at a landmark building in Banani on Thursday, 25 so far.

We wonder why the quality of our roads is so poor while the cost of per kilometre road construction here is the highest in the world.

Almost every day we are presented with horrendous reports of more road accidents and more deaths and injuries.

We are filled with sorrow at the lives lost in the terrible fire at FR Tower in Banani yesterday.

A report published in this daily on March 27 has once again brought to the fore how the vulnerability of indigenous communities is often used as an instrument of exploitation against them.

The Singapore-based budget airline Scoot is the latest foreign operator that has just announced its decision to pull out of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA). The reason given to stop its Bangladesh operations is that it is apparently not cost-effective to operate a route here.

It is alarming to learn that most private medical colleges in the country are running without sufficient number of teachers, let alone experienced teachers, and without the necessary infrastructure.

The 18km-long main canal that was commissioned in 1998 which is connected to other secondary and tertiary canal networks, spanning

This newspaper on March 24 reported how Rajuk is trying to change land allotted for educational institutions and environmental preservation in the Purbachal Project into commercial and business plots.