Eminent citizens have slammed the recent government order banning Bangladeshi or foreign individuals or organisations meeting and talking unsupervised with indigenous people of the hill districts.

WE are appalled that 32 persons, including 10 babies, have died in less than 24 hours at MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital in Sylhet, allegedly due to negligence of doctors and hospital staff.

WITH a former HSBC banker blowing the top off the bank's scandal and the French authorities launching a full blown investigation in 2008, evidence has emerged that nationals of Bangladeshi origin are among those suspected of money laundering between the years 1985 and 2006.

IN what can only be termed as nothing short of phenomenal, Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has stemmed the blitzkrieg of the ruling BJP's attempt

"The civil society is like mercenaries. They work for the highest bidder. They want to be caretaker government advisers and also want to become ministers

BANGLADESH signed a deal with Saudi Arabia yesterday to resume recruitment of workers on a gradual basis, which will result in 10,000 jobs per month,

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her cabinet colleagues are now calling civil society members -- who are putting in efforts for a dialogue to resolve the ongoing political standoff -- as "key actors" in the 1/11 changeover.

Dhaka and Riyadh are expected to strike a deal to resume recruitment from Bangladesh on a gradual basis, beginning with house servants such as maids and drivers.

BANGLADESH Shop Owners' Association representing 25 lakh retailers has put across an SOS to political leaders to rescue them from impending ruination.

ACCORDING to information received form the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, the DMP has arrested more than a thousand people on political grounds between January 5 and February 6. 76 percent of those are BNP cadres and the rest Jamaat's.

LITTLE do we realise the severe trauma that surviving burn victims go through. The suffering is so much that many of them wished that they were better dead than alive. Regrettably, due to the spate of violence we have witnessed in the last five weeks, their numbers are accreting every day. What the country has in its hands are more disabled and more infirm people who cannot get by on their own.

THE situation in the country is so desperate that it has gone far beyond the parameters of what we have so far known as political gridlocks. With innocents dying or burning out every day, law enforcers taking a toll in so-called cross-fires, economy, education, public health and livelihoods in jeopardy as BNP and AL swear by a fight-to-finish amid forebodings of a still darker future, any collective voice of sanity rings out a positive note.