We welcome the call by the delegates at the 13th Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) to implement the Kofi Annan Commission recommendations and finalise the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Bangladesh and Myanmar that would put

It is a harsh truth that despite the government amending laws and signing the ILO Convention on worst forms of child labour, thousands of children are engaged in work that are hazardous to their physical and mental well-being and that deprive them of the basic right to education.

We are delighted to see that six youths who themselves were studying at different educational institutions in Chittagong, had the drive and determination to set up a school for underprivileged children

Aniruddha Roy, a businessman who went missing nearly three months ago has returned home. However, it would help everyone to know the identity of his 'benefactors' who took the trouble of dropping him home in the very early hours of the morning.

For several years now, the Hatirjheel project has been slowly declining in character from what was considered a classic example of environmental restoration to another urban wasteland.

Bangladeshi software developers are turning out to be quite adept at providing ICT-related services to cater to the growing export

Sometimes certain human activities defy logic, but dumping garbage on the street by one faction of a political party to foil the

It was long overdue, but we welcome the resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, which condemned the military operations in Myanmar's Rakhine state against the Rohingya minority community.

It is alarming that a public authority is least bothered about protecting a vast forest farm it owns in Rajshahi and equally hesitant to punish those who are destroying it, in spite of the well-known fact that thousands of trees from the farm have been plundered illegally.

The US Secretary of State's comment that whatever is happening to the Rohingyas in Myanmar is not “ethnic cleansing,” despite mounting evidence to the contrary, is surprising.

This year, the ultra poor are going to have a hard time. The many safety net programmes that involve low-cost food distribution are in a state of doldrums for a number of reasons. First, we suffered devastating floods.

Sadly, it seems that we have readily resigned to the fact that the highways in the country are used for all the wrong purposes.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), the graft watchdog, has done a study on the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NTCB) and had some damning things to say about the board.

The fact that the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) failed to pass a resolution and handed out merely a statement condemning atrocities committed against the Rohingya people has apparently emboldened the Myanmar security forces.

It is good news that the government is drawing up a 20-year plan from 2016 to 2035 for a “planned Dhaka city” after it failed to implement the current detailed area plan (DAP) in the face of opposition from realtors and influential people.

Matters like food security, wildlife preservation and conservation, marine conservation, etc., fall low on our priority list.

We cannot help but ask: Is this what our imams are supposed to do, spread bigotry and instigate violence on helpless people?

This is the first time that a Chief Justice has tendered his resignation. That we feel is the most honourable course for him to take since he was left with no other option. But the antecedents to his departure have indeed left a bad taste in the mouth.

It is estimated by a leading think tank that Bangladesh would need Tk 7,126 crore to provide food, shelter and other support to the Rohingyas until June next year.

The Inspector General of Police's comments on November 10 about abductions and enforced disappearances leave us at a loss for words.