6 months of BNP govt: Health Ministry / Struggling with measles, let alone much else
19 August 2026
The health ministry spent much of its first 180 days grappling with a prolonged measles outbreak, leaving several of its major reform initiatives at an early stage and raising questions about its capacity to fulfil ambitious healthcare promises.
19 August 2026
Interview / ‘We expect visible changes in health sector within one to one-and-a-half years’
18 August 2026
Six months into the BNP government’s tenure, State Minister for Health MA Muhit speaks to The Daily Star about the ministry’s plans for the healthcare system and the challenges ahead
18 August 2026
Plug measles jab gaps urgently
18 August 2026
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman yesterday directed the health authorities to urgently identify and close gaps in measles vaccination coverage, as the disease continues to claim lives even three months after the emergency vaccination campaign.
18 August 2026
Measles deaths cross 900
16 August 2026
Measles continues to claim lives nearly three months after the nationwide vaccination campaign ended, with the death toll crossing the 900-mark yesterday, indicating that the outbreak is far from over.
16 August 2026
Upazila hospitals set for even bigger upgrade
16 August 2026
The government has decided to upgrade all upazila health complexes (UHCs) to 151-bed facilities, revising its earlier plan for 101 beds, to strengthen healthcare services at the grassroots level.
16 August 2026
Population council asleep for 16 years
11 August 2026
Fertility rate rising, demographic dividend at risk
11 August 2026
PRIVATE MEDICAL FACILITIES / Govt extends licence for 2yrs
11 August 2026
The health authorities have extended the validity of licences for private medical facilities from one year to two years, aiming to simplify the renewal process and reduce hassle for hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres.
11 August 2026
Private medical facilities: Licence validity extended for 2yrs, but hurdles remain
10 August 2026
Say owners
10 August 2026
First rest areas for truckers almost ready
If a driver of a truck feels tired during his long journey on highways, there are no facilities for them to rest.
11 September 2022
BR again seeks locomotives from India
With 67 percent of the locomotives of Bangladesh Railway (BR) past their economic life, the state-run agency has turned to India for the second time in less than four years to mitigate its engine crisis.
7 September 2022
Bus crash kills 8, exposes irregularities
The two buses that collided head-on in Rangpur early yesterday, leaving at least eight dead and over 50 injured, should not have been on the roads at all as neither had route permits.
6 September 2022
Ensuring safety at BRT Line-3: Planning Commission questions implementing agency’s role
The implementing authority of the BRT Line-3 has so far spent Tk 5.57 crore for ensuring safety at the project site, but it has failed to do so. The deaths of five people last month are a testament to the failure.
4 September 2022
Khulna-Mongla rail line: Not opening this year
When Bangladesh Railway in December 2010 took up the project for constructing Khulna-Mongla new rail line without any feasibility study, its deadline was December 2013.
30 August 2022
Project to buy carriages: After 6 years, it now needs a fresh start
Another railway project involving a Chinese contractor has plunged into deep uncertainty after a government committee directed the authorities not to take the hard loan arranged by the company.
29 August 2022
BRT set to miss new deadline
With the project authorities of BRT Line-3 having already failed to achieve their revised target, a recent tragedy has left them in further difficulties in meeting the proposed deadline of December 2022.
27 August 2022
2 Railway projects: Consultants come 4 months before deadlines end
Bangladesh Railway yesterday signed two separate contracts with consultants for two expansion projects, just four months before the project deadlines end.
26 August 2022
8th Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge in Pirojpur to open on Sep 4
The much-awaited Bekutia Bridge, formally known as the 8th Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge, in Pirojpur is set to be opened on September 4.
25 August 2022
Illegal rail crossings: Mushrooming despite rising fatalities
Different government agencies have built at least 140 level crossings across the country over the last four years without taking permission from Bangladesh Railway.
22 August 2022
Dhaka-Jashore rail project hits a snag
Supply issues of ballast for railway tracks and complexities centring shifting utility lines inside Dhaka city are the new challenges facing Dhaka-Jashore rail line project, which is already running behind the original schedule.
20 August 2022
Safety issues in focus, at last
Different government agencies and project authorities finally seem to be paying attention to safety regulations after five people were crushed to death by a girder of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Line-3 on Monday.
19 August 2022
Top officials asked to explain girder accident
The chief engineer of Roads and Highways Department and the managing director of Dhaka Bus Rapid Transit Company Ltd were asked to explain Monday’s incident that killed five people in the capital’s Uttara.
17 August 2022
Work of BRT project halted
Physical work of the entire Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Line-3 project will remain suspended until foolproof safety measures are in place, the authorities decided yesterday.
17 August 2022
Festivity turns tragic as newly-weds end up in hospital following fatal crash
They were all in a festive mood as the son of the family got married just two days ago.
15 August 2022
Safe Level Crossings: BR, LGED asked to give suggestions by September 30
As more and more people are losing their lives on unprotected level crossings, Bangladesh Railway and Local Government Engineering Department have been asked to complete an ongoing joint survey and submit a report by the end of next month.
11 August 2022
Operation cost rises by 70%, say bus owners; want fare readjusted
As a government committee will sit today (August 6, 2022) for re-fixing the bus fare, transport owners have demanded to consider not only the fuel price hike but also the increase in the prices of spare parts.
6 August 2022
Akhaura-Sylhet rail project: Negotiations resume after ERD intervention
The railway authorities have resumed negotiations with the Chinese company selected for the expansion of the Akhaura-Sylhet rail line, after the process was halted for a year over contract price.
1 August 2022
Road safety movement: Four years on, road fatalities keep rising
Four years ago today, two students were killed when a bus, competing with another to get passengers, ploughed into a crowd.
28 July 2022
Fitness farce
The onion-laden truck that mowed down three people in Mymensingh’s Trishal upazila on July 16 -- including an eight-month pregnant woman who gave birth on the spot -- got its fitness certificate while impounded at a police station two days later.
23 July 2022