Amidst all the show of force and sabre-rattling by North Korea and the United States, has anyone bothered to ask what would happen if push comes to shove?

Reporters Without Borders (RWB), in its 2017 World Press Freedom Index report, ranked Bangladesh 146th among 180 countries in

The High Court ban on three-wheelers and slow-moving vehicles on highways is being flouted with impunity. What is the use of a government order if its enforcement is almost non-existent?

There are some 5,000 boilers at industrial level that are authorised to operate by law. We have another 20,000 boilers that are unauthorised. The last three boiler-related accidents this year cost 17 lives and that is not at all surprising.

We, along with the rest of the world, have heaved a sigh of relief after the outcome of the first round of the French presidential election.

That the flood affected regions of the haor areas would be wiping out food resources for thousands of people was a well known fact.

The last few days' rain has exposed the dire straits of the drainage system of Dhaka and Chittagong. Bangladesh is no stranger to water-

The circumstances of the death of Romel Chakma of Nanyarchar remains shrouded in confusion. The young man died on April 20,

April 24 is a date that should not be and cannot be ever obliterated from our memory.

Quite a few extremist dens have been discovered by law enforcing and counterterrorism agencies across the country in recent times.

Aphotograph published in this newspaper on Thursday, of illegal shops occupying the staircase of the footbridge near Sadarghat in the capital, explains why most people in Dhaka refuse to use footbridges located across the city.

Yesterday we printed the picture of a heavily polluted Demra-Matuil canal in the capital city.

For the last fortnight the haors, in greater Sylhet particularly, have been in the news. First for the plight of the nearly quarter million people who are...

The Chittagong University authorities were forced to postpone a graduation test for journalism students on Thursday when activists of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) refused to allow examinees to enter the exam hall.

The dark ages are upon us where in-laws now apparently have no qualms about resorting to violence in order to keep in check women who wish to break out of their surroundings through education, so that they may one day become empowered which only better education can ensure.

On April 14 we heartily congratulated the move to fix the maximum retail price of stents for heart patients in need of angioplasty and

We are shocked that such a violent clash could take place with members of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) trying to vandalise the construction works of the said swimming pool.

There is conflict of interest and if we are even remotely interested in salvaging the transport sector from the rule of syndicates, then this requires the government to take steps against these vested elements within its ranks.

For the second day in a row till April 17, thousands of commuters were left stranded as the BRTA kept the pressure on buses with reserved...

In yet another tragic incident related to child marriage, a teenage girl from Akkelpur upazila of Joypurhat committed suicide by hanging...