Attack on UPL is an attack on free speech
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Editorial
Policing teen delinquency needs caution
29 September 2026
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Editorial
Pay rape response workers urgently
10 HOUR(s)
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Editorial
End the deadlock at the Information Commission
29 September 2026
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Editorial
Is violent crime being normalised?
28 September 2026
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Editorial
Attack on Radda MCH-FP centre condemnable
27 September 2026
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Editorial
Act before anthrax spreads further
27 September 2026
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Editorial
We must break the cyber-scam networks
26 September 2026
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Editorial
Police must act on evidence alone
28 September 2026
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Opinion
Protect RMG workers from rising heat
26 September 2026
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Editorial
Can we ever have a spotless election?
The EC should address concerns about the past of some NCC candidates
18 January 2022
Police attack on SUST students condemnable
We are concerned at the way police on January 16, 2022 responded to the agitating students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) who had confined the vice-chancellor to press home their demands.
17 January 2022
A politician to emulate
Ivy does it for the third time
17 January 2022
In search of breathable air
It is quite alarming, if not as surprising, that Dhaka city has ranked fourth in the latest list of world cities with the worst air quality, as per the Air Quality Index
16 January 2022
Why is Bhabadaha still waterlogged?
Authorities should consider using tidal river management (TRM) approach
16 January 2022
We need a workable traffic control system
Nothing seems to have worked with the capital’s traffic signal system even after spending Tk 119 crore over the last 15 years. Its method of controlling traffic flow on the roads remains as primitive as ever, with traffic policemen jumping right in front of running cars and using their hands to direct vehicular movement. Even ropes, cones and bamboo fences are used to control the extremely disorderly city traffic.
15 January 2022
Stop harassing families of the disappeared
Govt must give them protection, find their missing relatives
15 January 2022
Balloons turn into a nightmare
The report of a gas cylinder explosion in Cumilla resulting in the injury of 35 children is distressing, to say the least. We are further troubled to learn that at least six children among them remain critically injured.
14 January 2022
Confusion does not beget confidence
Authorities must make farsighted interventions to curb Omicron spread
14 January 2022
No room for road safety?
We wonder how far removed from reality the public administration ministry must be for it to not approve the Roads and Highways
13 January 2022
Tough time ahead with continuing Covid surge
Govt’s curbs must be well-thought-out and enforceable
13 January 2022
A hospital amid garbage!
If an open dumpster is allowed to exist near the very entrance of a hospital, and if it emanates foul stench all the time, how can you trust that
12 January 2022
Rivers are not dumping grounds
Buriganga, Dhaleshwari’s conditions a cautionary tale of mismanagement
12 January 2022
New kids on the block!
As Omicron spreads across the country and beyond, to top off another year of doom and gloom, two young home-grown talents are reminding us that there is more to life than this.
11 January 2022
Enforce Covid curbs properly
But some of the curbs merit reconsideration
11 January 2022
How can demolished brick kilns resume operation?
It is frustrating to learn that two illegal brick kilns in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila, demolished by the Department of Environment (DoE) in February last year, have resumed their operations in full swing.
10 January 2022
Scourge of the road
Implement ban on three-wheelers on highways
10 January 2022
Sundari no more graceful
It is disheartening to learn that the Sundari canal at Karatia in Tangail Sadar upazila has been turned into a relic of the past, almost as a
9 January 2022
The youth deserve better from us
The pandemic has been brutal for them, so has bad governance
9 January 2022
Saving the country’s first art school
It is saddening that the building that once housed East Bengal’s first art and craft school, Maheshwarpasha Art School, is set to be
8 January 2022