We are glad that Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has publicly stated that the government cannot avoid responsibility for the Chawkbazar tragedy. It is a refreshing change from what we usually witness in the aftermath of such incidents.

It is with great concern that we are witnessing a dangerous escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan after the deadly Pulwama attack, which claimed the lives of more than 40 Indian security personnel in the Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on February 19, in an interview with the Dubai-based Khaleej Times, expressed her dismay that Myanmar had failed to create a condition conducive to the Rohingya repatriation.

That ordinary people's life count for very little in the running of the affairs of the state has been proved once again by the recent tragedy.

Only two days ago, this paper ran an editorial on how chemical warehouses continue to operate in old Dhaka. By the government's own

It is unthinkable that 10,000 people should become homeless overnight as we saw happen with the residents of Dhaka's Bhasantek slum this week. An eviction drive launched by the National Housing Authority (NHA) on Tuesday has left thousands of people without a home—with nowhere to go.

Analysts at a seminar titled “Lack of corporate governance is the biggest barrier in Bangladesh for Japanese investors”, on February 19, stated that poor corporate governance and lack of quality manpower were the two major impediments holding back foreign direct investment (FDI) in Bangladesh.

As we observe the historic occasion when some valiant souls laid down their lives to establish the right of our mother tongue on this day in 1952

It is with shock and disbelief that we are informed through a news report that 31 bodies of premature babies were found in a dustbin of Sher-e-Bangla Medical College in Barishal.

Bangladesh Bank (BB) has given approval for three new banks to be floated at a time when the banking sector is both saturated and stressed due to nonperforming loans (NPLs) reaching dangerous levels.

Incredulously, the very person whose plainly insensitive comments had enraged students and sparked off mass demonstration in demand of road safety last year, has now been made the head of a 15-member committee on road safety.

It is extremely worrying that chemical warehouses continue to operate in Old Dhaka, which means that we have failed to draw lessons from the Nimtoli fire in 2010 that killed 123 people.

The government has been taking various measures to tackle the scourge of yaba in the country, some of which exceeded the bounds of legality.

It is reprehensible that some 6-7 lakh people in Dhaka had to suffer from complete or partial lack of gas supply without any warning whatsoever from the authorities.

It is The Daily Star's privilege to honour two teachers, Satwajit Biswas and Taherul Islam, who have stood out as beacons of light in their dedicated service to education.

A top-ranking leader of Jamaat has tendered his resignation after a very long association with the party.

Two consistent features of the Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader's public statements in recent years have been his admission of failure and his pledge to bring discipline in the transport sector, neither of which, unfortunately, has brought us any closer to the promised safety on our roads.

On February 14, a massive fire broke out at the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital, one of the major public hospitals in the country, leaving hundreds of patients, with many critically ill, under the open sky in dire situations for hours before they were transferred to other government hospitals.

We are finally on the verge of witnessing an election of the Dhaka University's Ducsu (Dhaka University Central Students' Union), which would be the first democratic exercise of the iconic student body in nearly three decades.

A five-year survey by the Department of Environment (DoE) on the quality of air in seven major cities has found that 50 percent of the