As election season is on full swing we the ordinary citizens have to bear with the eyesores that are the thousands of posters plastered on every wall, bridge, letter box, lamppost etc.

The strange case of a teacher punishing five students in Thakurgaon for saving a girl from harassment is but a reflection of the general fascination with punishment as a disciplining

Bank Asia and the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute (WSBI) recently hosted a three-day event to share ideas on how banks and other financial institutions may bring more than

They have urged the Myanmar government to start the process of voluntary repatriation and give the independent inquiry commission, established by the Myanmar government, a full mandate to probe and hold the people responsible fully accountable for the crimes committed against the Rohingyas.

The World Bank (WB) invited two economists, Ahsan H Mansur and Hossain Zillur Rahman who head the Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh, and Power and Participation Research Centre respectively,

We are quite flabbergasted by the volley of cases filed against senior leaders and activists of BNP right after the party staged a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on Monday.

The police have just wrapped up a month-long traffic campaign in the capital city and nothing much has changed when it comes to the mentality of both drivers and pedestrians with regards to obeying rules of the road.

We are deeply saddened to learn of the huge death toll—which has passed 840—brought about by the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

People wish to see a free, fair and healthy election. And we think this is also what the government and the ruling party would like to see. This can only happen if there is unhindered participation of all parties.

An employee of Ekattor TV was crushed to death near Jahangir gate signal in the capital city on September 29. The bus sped at high speed first knocking over a 3-wheeler auto-rickshaw and then, whilst attempting to flee the scene, hit biker Habib Rahman and then ran him over.

In remote Diri Mro Para in Bandarban's Alikadam, a group has been cutting down trees illegally from a Village Common Forest (VCF), causing a serious water crisis for ethnic communities who depend on VCFs to conserve their water sources.

In a recent case of negligence by hospital staff, as reported in this daily last Saturday, a baby's body got severed from its head as nurses and cleaning staff of an upazila health complex were trying to deliver the baby without the presence of a doctor.

A set of front-page photos carried by this newspaper on September 28 shows how destructive the Padma's erosion has been for many people in a number of riparian districts. People have lost their homes, arable lands, belongings and essential properties as the mighty river devours villages one after the other.

We appreciate Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim's admission that political lobbying hinders his efforts to close substandard clinics. But, criticising the culture will not suffice to put an end to it. The ministry must crackdown on substandard private hospitals and clinics because their very existence is testimony to the terrible state of our private healthcare system.

The movement for safer roads launched by students seems to have gone to waste and we are back to our old lawbreaking ways. Whilst the authorities are conducting Traffic week with more fervour than usual raking in thousands of cases against errant vehicles, we see very few efforts being taken to dissuade jaywalking.

According to a World Bank (WB) report titled ”South Asia's Hotspots: The Impact of Temperature and Precipitation Changes on Living Standards”, more than 75 percent of the population (13.4 crore people) will be adversely affected by rising temperatures which will result in a rise of vector-borne and other infectious diseases.

It is shocking to learn that Toriqul Islam, a student of the Department of Islamic Studies at Rajshahi University and a victim of a BCL-led attack during the quota reform movement, was denied permission to attend his Master's exams in sick bed.

Despite remarkable progress in universal primary education, poor reading skills among the primary students continue to be a blight on Bangladesh's success.

We welcome the minister-level meeting between Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur on September 25 that paved the way for all licensed Bangladeshi recruiting agencies to start sending workers to Malaysia.

The media has for the last few decades highlighted the sorry state of our rivers, i.e. how powerful, vested quarters have taken advantage of the fact that the National River Conservation Commission (NRCC) was never given any legal or institutional capacity.