While the government primary school teachers have to go through a long arduous process to get their retirement benefits because of corruption and the slow pace of work at the relevant offices, one District Primary Education Officer (DPEO) of Jashore has set an example of efficiency.

A picture published in this paper on March 14 depicts the Surma River in Sylhet city's Kazirbazar where garbage litters its banks. Regrettably, that is the state of most of the rivers in the country.

The Rohingya lawyer Razia Sultana is dead right when she said that the nearly one million Rohingya refugees in camps inside Bangladesh have very little future.

Worrying developments have been reported in the remote forests of Bhola's Manpura Island where trees are being cut down indiscriminately to fuel brick kilns or for other purposes.

The chief of Anti-Corruption Commission has come down hard on the role the central bank has played over the last several years when it comes to tackling graft in banks.

A picture published by this newspaper yesterday of rickety three-storey buildings on the banks of the Buriganga river in the capital exemplifies another disaster in the making.

All of the country's five gas distribution companies have demanded gas price hike at consumer level at the latest Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) public hearing.

Was the long wait of almost three decades for the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) election to be held worth it? The kind of election we witnessed yesterday for Ducsu posts is deeply disturbing. Sadly, the election was marred by many irregularities.

A recent TIB study shows that the Dalits and indigenous communities of the plain lands in Bangladesh have been facing widespread socio-economic discrimination, often being deprived of education, healthcare, even government's basic immunisation programmes, and employment as well as other basic human rights.

The minister for home would have us believe that the crossfire deaths that have occurred in the government's pursuit to combat the menace of drugs and narcotics are not due to crossfire but occurred when the law enforcing agencies fired in self-defence only, in pursuit of the drug dealers.

The inaction of the Dhaka North and South City Corporations in the face of an increasing mosquito population in the city's capital is deplorable. In order to effectively control the mosquito problem

According to several national and international reports, women's participation in the workforce has been increasing steadily in the country.

While the decision of Dhaka University (DU) authorities to finally hold the DUCSU elections after a long hiatus of 28 years has been welcomed by all,

We are appalled to learn about yet another lift accident that injured 14 people, this time at the Dhaka District and Sessions Judge Court.

The International Women's Day, observed yesterday, has brought to the forefront a range of issues that give us a picture of the state of women in this country.

A distinction must be made between habitual defaulters and general defaulters—the latter group may default on loans due to systemic problems or circumstances beyond their control. But the former are people who have made it a habit of not meeting their obligations to the bank.

For weeks, speculation over whether a gun could or did pass through airport security in the case of the attempted plane hijack last month was foremost in the minds of people.

The headline of a report by this daily marking the sixth anniversary of the murder of 17-year-old Tanwir Muhammad Taqi succinctly captured the absurdity of the investigation that ensued in its wake, calling it “a never-ending probe”.

A jointly-prepared report by Greenpeace and Airvisual recently unveiled the 2018 Air Quality Report on March 5 and in it, Dhaka has featured as the second most polluted capital city in the world.

It was no secret that these two premier public corporations do not have the best of track records insofar as transparency, honesty and straight dealings are concerned.