After 11 days of violence, we are relieved that an Egypt-mediated truce between Israel and Hamas came into effect on Friday. However, to call the violence perpetrated over the last 11 days lopsided would be an understatement,

The UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi has called for making livelihood options more available for the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, and we agree that it would indeed be “risky” to make them into a dependent group for so long.

According to experts, should we see any significant surge in Covid-19—or anything close to the situation in India—our healthcare sector will not be able to cope with it.

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic last year, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has found itself mired in one corruption story after another.

The February military coup in Myanmar has plunged our neighbouring country into unrest and brought its uncertain journey towards democracy to a grinding halt.

That no action has been taken against at least four vice-chancellors of public universities, even after allegations of corruption and irregularities against them were found to be true, is disconcerting.

We are extremely disturbed by the way a senior reporter of a leading daily in the country has been treated in the line of her duty. Rozina Islam,

Excavating streambeds and banks to improve navigability of rivers is a routine work in Bangladesh. Crores of taka are spent every year for this purpose.

With people lowering their guard against Covid-19 during the Eid celebrations, health officials and experts fear that Bangladesh may face a grimmer health crisis than before.

Last Tuesday marked an important milestone for the Mass Rapid Transit Line-6 project, as the country’s first-ever electricity-powered train ran its first

We are appalled at the wanton destruction that Israeli has been wreaking on the people of Palestine and their property over the last seven days.

As the month of Ramadan approaches its end, we will once again be celebrating a different type of Eid.

We have been surprised by a statement made by the Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh on Monday.

Since Friday, it has been dismaying to see thousands of people having to resort to any means possible to get to their hometowns before Eid, just as the second wave of Covid-19 has slowly started to see a dip in the country.

To protect the consumption of low-income groups and boost overall domestic demand, which has been hit hard by Covid-19, the Citizen’s Platform for SDGs has called on the government to provide cash support to the poor and low-income groups.

It is disappointing to know that 25 percent of garment factories which received stimulus packages during the pandemic on the condition that they would not lay off workers have not complied with this condition.

It is not possible to talk about Covid-19 without appearing to be an alarmist. It was not a question of if but when we will be attacked by the new variant that has mutated in India.

People are protesting against the felling of trees at Dhaka’s Suhrawardy Udyan for the implementation of a mega project.

As far back as 2009, the High Court made a landmark judgement on saving the four rivers surrounding Dhaka by setting boundary pillars, evicting

That the country yesterday saw the lowest number of Covid-19 deaths in a single day since March 28 is indeed good news. It is not difficult to come to the conclusion that the drop in Covid-19 cases and deaths can be attributed to the lockdown that has been enforced from April 14.