Ferdousy Ahmed’s resignation a welcome move
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Editorial
Make evictions work for a change
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Editorial
Develop a state-led elderly care system
1 October 2026
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Editorial
How long must Ramu wait for justice?
1 October 2026
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Editorial
Attack on UPL is an attack on free speech
30 September 2026
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Editorial
Policing teen delinquency needs caution
29 September 2026
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Editorial
Pay rape response workers urgently
30 September 2026
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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
Cinema hall workers facing dire consequences
Since the Covid-19 pandemic started in March last year, the cinema halls all over the country have been shut down following the health guidelines.
18 July 2021
Mass death of animals in Katabon during lockdown
Adistressing report in this daily has brought to light the tragic consequences of the lockdown on the animals trapped in the pet shops in the city’s Katabon area. Behind closed shutters,
18 July 2021
Yaba smuggled in through newer, easier routes
A report in this daily reveals how yaba pills are continuing to be smuggled into Bangladesh,
17 July 2021
Have we given up on trying to curb Covid-19?
As the eight-day “easing” of the “strict” lockdown is passing us by, reports are flooding in from all directions about how health and safety regulations are neither being enforced nor being followed,
17 July 2021
Post-lockdown insanity amid homebound rush
We’ve been here before. We’ve seen lockdown come and go with the same arbitrariness with which most decisions on this land are taken.
16 July 2021
Why are we not taking up Russia’s vaccine offer?
It has come out in a recent report by this newspaper that since early June, Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK) has been urging the government to purchase 20 million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for the coronavirus.
15 July 2021
Worst time to ease lockdown
We fail to understand the wisdom behind the government’s decision to ease lockdown at a time when the numbers of daily new coronavirus cases and
15 July 2021
Capital’s cattle markets swarmed way ahead of opening date
It is quite disappointing that cattle markets around the capital—which are not set to open before July 17—are already seeing throngs of sellers and potential buyers, most of them not wearing masks, let alone practicing social distancing.
14 July 2021
Fresh round of relief for pandemic-hit groups
We applaud the government decision to introduce relief packages worth Tk 3,200 crore to segments of the population who have been dealt a fresh blow by
14 July 2021
Take legal action against the contractor
It is unacceptable that a contractor of the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) has disrupted the flow of the Ratnai river in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila worse following its excavation.
13 July 2021
Slackened ‘lockdown’ for Eid does not bode well
It was a Catch-22 situation for the government and no doubt the decisionmakers are in a quandary at this moment.
13 July 2021
DIFE did not check fire safety in the factory
We are shocked that although the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) had visited Hashem Foods factory in Rupganj, Narayanganj, just one month before the fire, they only checked whether Covid health guidelines were being met, and did not bother to check whether the factory had any fire safety measures as required by law.
12 July 2021
Yet another journalist felled by DSA
Yet another journalist has fallen victim to the dragnet of the Digital Security Act (DSA). Yet another blatant misuse of the law, in the name of
12 July 2021
Remote areas have little access to family planning services
A 2019 joint study by the Society for Environment and Human Development, the Centre for Injury Prevention and Research Bangladesh
11 July 2021
Wrongs are exposed, but only after a tragedy
The devastating fire at the food factory in Rupganj is yet another example that accidents occur when rules are disregarded, safety procedures
11 July 2021
Deaths in Narayanganj fire caused by gross negligence
It is hard to label the painful deaths of at least 52 workers and staff members in Thursday’s fire in the Hashem Foods factory in Narayanganj as a random
10 July 2021
Worsening flood situation in the north, thousands marooned
We are deeply concerned regarding the worsening floods in Sirajganj and Lalmonirhat districts, due to the rising water levels of Jamuna and Teesta rivers.
10 July 2021
Migrant agricultural workers trapped in Faridpur without employment
We are deeply concerned about the more than 1,200 migrant agricultural workers from about 10 northern districts of the country who are currently trapped in Faridpur due to the lockdown.
9 July 2021
A good project going to waste
A Tk 58.5 crore project called the “Safe Crop Production through Integrated Pest Management” had created enormous interest among farmers to grow foods
9 July 2021
Dengue an added worry amid Covid-19 surge
As the country is encountering its worst phase yet of the Covid-19 pandemic, a dengue surge is becoming a fresh cause for concern.
8 July 2021