While the government’s cash assistance programme for 50 lakh poor families is supposed to start from today, it is unfortunate to learn that many

Ordinarily, it doesn’t make sense for a university to stop paying its staff in the middle of a semester that the students have already paid for.

While health workers are desperately trying to treat Covid-19 and other critically ill patients in hospitals and the public is trying to maintain better hygiene, the fallout of the use of a huge amount of plastic waste generated during the last month or so is being overlooked.

In an attempt to ease the nationwide lockdown and resume economic activities, selective shopping malls and other businesses were allowed to

We are appalled by a report in this paper that relates the harrowing tales of family members of critically ill patients who have been denied treatment

With the “Great Lockdown” poised to cause the worst global recession in nearly a century, young Bangladeshis—who were already struggling with

While conducting an epidemiological surveillance is crucial to understand and fight the outbreak of an extremely contagious disease like Covid-19, it is worrying that we are yet to carry out any such surveillance to handle the outbreak of the disease in the country.

As we celebrate International Mother’s Day today, remaining confined to our homes, we, in fact, get a better chance to see the hard work our mothers have to do every single day only to make our lives comfortable.

The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the world is at risk of “mega-famines” as COVID-19 cases are expected to peak in the world’s most fragile countries in the next three to six months.

There is little doubt that as with most crisis situations, the lockdown to stop the current COVID-19 pandemic has affected women and children

It is worrying that as the country is preparing to ease the lockdown before Eid to mitigate the economic fallout of the crisis, the ground realities

As the government has decided to reopen shopping malls, all types of shops and businesses on a limited scale from May 10 ahead of the Eid,

A cartoonist, a writer and an activist were among the four latest victims of arrest under the draconian Digital Security Act, which it seems is being

It is heart-warming to learn from a report in The Daily Star that a group of Dhaka University students led by a DUCSU member has been serving free

In a press conference in mid-March, WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had memorably said it is not possible to “fight a fire blindfolded” and

One notices a malicious tendency in some unprincipled and dishonest people to exploit and misuse relief measures of the government, particularly

As economic pain from the coronavirus lockdown increasingly bites the country, the government has decided to reopen the economy partially.

At a time when most of humanity is subdued because of the ongoing pandemic, Bidyanondo Foundation has been one of the first responders to the crisis, providing food and medical safety gear to people who needed them the most.

The picture in yesterday’s front page says it all. Hundreds of garment workers leaving their factory in Ashulia in crowds, totally disregarding the government’s social distancing directives.

It is disturbing to learn that the police hospital in Dhaka has been overwhelmed by patients due to the number of COVID-19 infected police personnel.