Private healthcare was introduced partly to take the pressure off public hospitals struggling with a huge number of patients and stem the flow of those going abroad for treatment, depriving the country of sizable revenue.

That repatriation of the Rohingya refugees will be meaningless without creating a favourable environment for their return and proper resettlement is beginning to be clear.

There was a time when Dhaka University was lauded as “Oxford of the East” due to the standard of its faculty and quality of its education.

The judgment in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case was delivered yesterday and the former prime minister was sentenced to five years in

Solar is one area of electrification where Bangladesh has done very well.

The recent concern expressed by the UN human rights chief—that Myanmar's persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority has the potential to spark regional conflict should be taken seriously by the international community and especially the countries in this region.

It is bad enough, as it is, for the ordinary citizens to be ignored, shuffled around and made to wait for hours with closed roads and clogged traffic.

As we approach February 8, we find a toughening of government's position on the largest opposition party.

There cannot be a more distressing situation than a rape victim finding herself in a situation of double jeopardy, being wronged twice.

Perhaps no other nation can claim to have sacrificed so much as the Bangladeshis, who sacrificed their lives for their mother language.

It may be premature to talk about short- or long-term cure for a malady that has become entrenched in our psyche when we cannot see any worthwhile measure at all to combat this menace.

We are greatly heartened by the finance minister's bold and timely (some may say very late) observation that government interference is responsible for the rise in the amount of classified loans ...

We are not surprised to learn that Myanmar has asked the UN Security Council to not visit its conflict-ravaged Rakhine state this February because it was “not the right time.”

Although he has stated the obvious, we welcome the remarks of the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) that the next general election would be meaningless without BNP's participation.

Two years ago, direct air cargo flights by Biman to the UK was banned (only Biman had direct flights to the UK) as Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal Airport was deemed to be unsafe and declared a “red zone”

In yet another shameful act of minority persecution, a man in Lalmonirhat grabbed a piece of land belonging to a local Hindu family. Khagendranath, the owner of the land, said he was even threatened with dire consequence if he ever intends to visit his land in future.

The commendable initiative of a group of girls combating early marriage in Trishal, as reported by The Daily Star on Thursday, shows

According to the latest Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index 2017, our ranking has slipped eight notches from the

The rate of bad loan recovery from the top five banks, namely, Sonali, Janata, BASIC, Agrani and Rupali has proved unsatisfactory from the central bank's perspective.

After two years, government food reserve has apparently crossed eight lakh tonnes and import of rice and wheat has surpassed 20 lakh tonnes.