The horrific death of three construction workers in Siddheswari area on Tuesday when they fell from an under-construction building is a

The European Union (EU) letter to the government threatening removal of GSP facilities if there is no tangible progress on labour rights comes in the heels of ban on cargo flights out of Bangladesh.

On June 5, the cabinet approved a proposal to declare October 22 as National Safe Roads Day.

The European Union (EU) has just put Bangladesh on the list of high-risk countries in terms of operating cargo services by air and sea to the EU countries.

It comes as a shock that the government has proposed an import duty on solar panels in this year's budget.

We observed the World Environment Day yesterday in the backdrop of the United States withdrawing from the Paris agreement, a huge disappointment worldwide.

Four days on, majority of the victims of Longadu attack have not yet come back to their home. Fear of further attacks is keeping them

And it makes even less sense to now charge the same taxpayers' higher prices so that the BPC can deposit the subsidy amount to the government. What good is it to have citizens pay double and have the money sitting around in the government's coffers?

A picture carried in an inside page of this paper showing an excavator cleaning a clogged canal -- the Dholiakhal, in the capital city...

Last Friday, pictures circulating on social media showed a grim reality: families from the Chakma community fleeing to safety with what little they could carry of their possessions while their houses went up in flames.

Seven years have elapsed since a deadly fire ripped through Old Dhaka's Nimtoli that claimed the lives of 124, mostly women and children, and injured a further 200.

Residents of Banasree, Kaderabad Housing, Katasur, Dakshin Khan, Kalshi Mirpur – to name just a few areas – have been affected. According to officials, the crisis has been due to load shedding, malfunction of deep tube wells and ground water depletion: nothing that could not have been predicted.

Big budget is inevitable for a developing country, but when the revenue earning is heavily reliant on value added tax and

The 46th annual budget of Tk 4 trillion has been placed in the House by the finance minister and this is our preliminary reaction to it.

We are sickened by yet another terrorist attack, this time in Kabul, with a bomb blast that ripped through the city's diplomatic quarter,

Awhopping one-fifth of the forthcoming fiscal year's total development budget has been set aside for six fast-track projects. That is, out

In an effort to boost revenue, the government is considering doubling excise duty on both debit and credit balances of bank account

The road transport minister has said that the BRTC will purchase 600 new buses. He has also said that this year the BRTC will run 900 additional buses across the country to ensure smooth journeys during the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr.

We fail to see why such an emergency unit is being deprived of manpower and logistics support, why basic facilities like changing and dressing of babies and children are missing, and why there is only one operating theatre for those needing surgery!

We are baffled by the results of a survey by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics which has found an inverse relationship between tertiary