Develop a state-led elderly care system
1 October 2026 • Editorial
How long must Ramu wait for justice?
1 October 2026 • Editorial
Attack on UPL is an attack on free speech
30 September 2026 • Editorial
Policing teen delinquency needs caution
29 September 2026 • Editorial
Pay rape response workers urgently
30 September 2026 • Editorial
Is violent crime being normalised?
28 September 2026 • Editorial
Attack on Radda MCH-FP centre condemnable
27 September 2026 • Editorial
Act before anthrax spreads further
27 September 2026 • Editorial

Covid-19 vaccines being embezzled in the black market

It appears that the peddling of Covid-19 vaccines on the black market—something we have feared to be an inevitability since February—is
21 August 2021

Day when govt turned terrorist

On August 21, 2004, our government became a terrorist organisation. In what followed, the state itself became accessory to that terrorist act.
21 August 2021

Migrant workers forced into quandary over flight home

As if migrant workers are not already suffering enough due to unemployment and underpayment/non-payment of salaries during the pandemic, those in
19 August 2021

Any law on data protection must respect data privacy

The protection of personal data in the modern world is a complicated and contentious issue, especially when there is increasing evidence not just of spyware
19 August 2021

Stop victimising the passengers

The ongoing row between Biman Bangladesh Airlines and its online ticket sales partner is causing untold sufferings for hundreds of intended passengers.
18 August 2021

Evacuate Bangladeshi citizens trapped in Afghanistan

As the situation continues to evolve from day to day, it is becoming increasingly difficult to assess the current climate of Afghanistan. However, despite the
18 August 2021

Passing the buck for the dengue crisis won’t help

Seldom does a healthcare system, beset by its already fragile state, have to cope with a prolonged pandemic, as ours has done for the last 16 months, while having to cope with another serious illness simultaneously.
17 August 2021

The incredible feat of a brave mother

We are astonished by the bravery of a mother of a teenage girl who, according to a report published yesterday, willingly got herself trafficked to India by the same trafficking gang that had tricked her 17-year-old daughter into travelling to that country, only to sell her off to a brothel in Bihar.
17 August 2021

Taliban victory is writ large in Afghanistan

All events indicate that a Taliban victory in Afghanistan is now a certainty. The former prime minister Ashraf Ghani has reportedly left the country, saying that he
16 August 2021

Should in-person learning be left to chance again?

The news that the government is planning to initiate a phased return to in-person classes starting in September is indeed an encouraging one. According to
16 August 2021

The economic spasms of debt rescheduling

The warning from Bangladesh Bank (BB)—that unrealised rescheduled loans might create a challenging situation for the profitability and solvency of banks
15 August 2021

Fraudulent practices in e-commerce cannot be tolerated

We agree with the opinion of experts—at a virtual discussion on “Building a Sustainable Ecosystem for E-commerce”, organised by the Dhaka Chamber of
15 August 2021

Taliban rule in Afghanistan now seems inevitable

The latest and most significant achievement of the Taliban has been their takeover of Kandahar—Afghanistan’s second-largest city after Kabul—on Friday.
14 August 2021

National Mourning Day

Today is the 46th anniversary of the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Within less than four years of the birth of Bangladesh, the
14 August 2021

Digital access comes before digital learning

We appreciate the government’s initiative to buy new digital contents containing interactive and communicative lessons to help secondary students tap the potential of distance learning.
13 August 2021

Restrictions are being lifted, but at what cost?

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Bangladesh—like most other countries in the world—has been faced with the “lives vs livelihoods” dilemma, as pandemic-induced lockdowns hit the economy hard even while working towards bringing widespread Covid-19 transmission slightly under control.
13 August 2021

Make factories pay for polluting the environment

Coming hard on the heels of a new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report that made dire predictions about the occurrence of more frequent rainfalls,
12 August 2021

Address migrant workers’ wage theft claims

We express our strong support for the demand put forward by experts at a recent webinar, who urged the government to address migrant workers’ wage theft claims at regional forums during bilateral meetings with host countries, and via international and UN agencies working on migration.
12 August 2021

Towards a democratic society, or a surveillance one?

On an issue that concerns every citizen of our country and their constitutional rights, 10 supreme court lawyers have filed a writ petition with the High Court,
11 August 2021

When will the machine-readable passport server be upgraded?

It is astonishing that the Department of Immigration and Passports (DIP) has not issued any new passports in the last four weeks. The server had run out of
11 August 2021