Factories must stop polluting rivers
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Childcare is key to our economic progress
3 October 2026
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Why are we failing to contain dengue?
3 October 2026
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Ferdousy Ahmed’s resignation a welcome move
2 October 2026
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Make evictions work for a change
2 October 2026
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Develop a state-led elderly care system
1 October 2026
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How long must Ramu wait for justice?
1 October 2026
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Attack on UPL is an attack on free speech
30 September 2026
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Policing teen delinquency needs caution
29 September 2026
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Pay rape response workers urgently
30 September 2026
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Chattogram City Corporation elections
Chattogram happens to be the second largest city in the country and not everything is going well in terms of the peaceful, fair and transparent
26 January 2021
Kohelia being killed to build a highway
We are disheartened to learn from a recent report in this newspaper that a portion of the Kohelia in Moheshkhali’s Matarbari union is in dire straits
25 January 2021
Covid-19 is not the Great Equalizer
In a world already riddled by extreme economic and racial inequality, the coronavirus has exacerbated entrenched systems of inequity and
25 January 2021
Tk 428 crore project for women entrepreneurs
We laud the government’s plan to undertake a Tk 428 crore project to develop the skills of 256,000 unemployed and disadvantaged women and hone
24 January 2021
Economic pangs of the pandemic
We had predicted at the very outset of the pandemic that one of the long lasting inevitable negative impacts of Covid-19 would be on the economy
24 January 2021
Vaccine ready for roll-out
Having received the first consignment of 20 lakh doses of Covishield vaccine as a gift from India—along with the purchase of three crore doses from
23 January 2021
PM’s laudable initiative to give houses to the homeless
We applaud Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government for inaugurating the Ashrayan 2 project aimed at rehabilitating homeless, landless
23 January 2021
Power Generation: Overcapacity a new headache
As much as 60 percent of the country’s power generation capacity remained unutilised in 2020 because of a lack of demand for electricity.
22 January 2021
VC coerced to prioritise jobs for BCL members?
According to a recent report published in this paper, Rajshahi University Vice-Chancellor Professor M Abdus Sobhan has “assured” BCL men that
22 January 2021
Reopening schools in phases would be a good decision
We believe the government’s discussion to reopen schools on a limited scale giving priority to the SSC and HSC students is a prudent move. The
22 January 2021
Biden’s inauguration a win for democracy
Amidst speculations of unrest created by Trump supporters and worries of domestic terrorism, Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the
21 January 2021
India’s gift of 20 lakh vaccine doses
The first consignment of Covishield vaccine from India arrived in Bangladesh on Thursday. India gifted Bangladesh 20 lakh doses of the Oxford
21 January 2021
One-third of 62 rivers in Barishal no longer navigable
The state of rivers in Bangladesh has been a cause for concern for a while now, so much so that in 2019, the High Court declared rivers to be “legal
20 January 2021
Schools need to reopen
We all know how difficult it has been for school-going children to cope with their studies during almost eleven months of staying at home and not
20 January 2021
A young couple’s dreams crushed under a bus
Unfortunately, there has been no letup in traffic accidents and death and injuries therefrom. Although the total number of road accidents in 2020 was
19 January 2021
Don’t let time and cost overruns be the norm
When a public service agency embarks on a development or communications project based on faulty designs and no feasibility study, it is bound to
19 January 2021
Living conditions ignored while building houses for the homeless
The government’s undertaking to hand over thousands of houses to the homeless across the country to mark the birth centenary of the Father of
18 January 2021
Two timely new government stimulus packages
The government’s decision to roll out two new stimulus packages for a total of Tk 2,700 crore is a welcome one. One of the stimulus packages is
18 January 2021
Dhaka circular rail on the horizon
It’s encouraging to learn from a recent report published by this paper that Bangladesh Railway (BR) has carried out a feasibility study to build a
17 January 2021
Second phase of municipal elections
The second phase of the four-stage local elections was held on Saturday in a total of 60 municipalities in the country, amidst reports of sporadic
17 January 2021