DSA is being used to target voices of dissent

Whether in a crowd or left alone, KK perfectly reflected that unmistakable sense of yearning and pain for a phase of life which is gone forever.  

After the death of journalist Tofazzal Hossain, popularly known as Manik Mia, politician, journalist and litterateur Abul Mansur Ahmad wrote in a commemorative article titled “Jati Je Manik Harailo,” “It didn’t take us long to understand (what a gem we had lost); the countrymen understood it much later.”

What earned the JCD such a thrashing?

One important but oft-ignored thing is that design and implementation mistakes delay the revenue-generation phase of megaprojects.

The two organisations did not conduct any test on tap water or water collected from the pipes within the Wasa distribution network. Why?

How is it that a government megaproject does not have enough safety measures in place so as not to cause the death of a passer-by?

Recently, the United Nations published the Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2022, highlighting the slow progress of Covid-19 recovery in developing countries due to fiscal constraints, while developed economies recovered quickly by borrowing a record amount of low-interest loans.

Should the Election Commission take the controversial route of using EVMs in the next general election?

Govt must enforce the transport act, make roads safer

Health authorities must ensure proper follow-up actions

Patent-free global medicine production is the way to go in order to fight the next pandemic.

Despite Bangladesh having a large number of green factories, the SMEs in our garment industry are still struggling to access green finance.

As if a million Rohingya refugees are not enough, we have to now face the prospect of Rohingyas sneaking in through the borders from India into Bangladesh.

The pitfall of measuring development based on macrodata is that it shows the big picture, but fails to account for development achieved, if at all, on a micro/personal level.

Miscalculation of rates, a common phenomenon, gives birth to a gamut of complex emotions in our everyday life and in life in general.

Filling up a water body is in violation of the conservation law

Justice for the victims of enforced disappearance must be ensured

UN peacekeeping is not alone in this endeavour. Many partners work alongside us in the cause of peace.  

Nato’s spat over Turkish opposition to Swedish and Finnish membership is about more than expanding the North Atlantic military alliance.