A rather distorted version of the old adage “Great things are done when men and mountains meet” has come to become the norm in our society.

We should be concerned at the recent revelation made by Save the Children regarding C-sections: 77 percent of C-Sections carried out across the country last year were medically unnecessary. The rate of C-section is more than 31 percent in the country which is way above the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommended range of 10-15 percent.

The government’s ongoing food grain procurement policy to help farmers has had the opposite results. Under the programme, the

The attack on Ducsu VP Nurul Haque Nur, along with several other quota reformists and at least one journalist, allegedly by a group of Chhatra League activists in Bogura on May 26, is condemnable.

A report in this daily yesterday shed light on the fact that only five percent of cases relating to road accidents result in conviction. The report also makes a mindboggling revelation: often times, the reason behind the accused getting away scot-free is law enforcers themselves.

Despite massive infrastructure development, development projects will not make Dhaka a better place to live because the city is massively overpopulated.

Between 2009 and 2018, since the Awami League government came to office, 507 people have become victims of enforced disappearances, according to the International Federation for Human Rights.

​That ails our secondary education system? A familiar litany of problems can be cited but a new report by The Daily Star has brought into focus a relatively underacknowledged factor:

We congratulate Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for winning a landslide victory in the Indian elections.

Once touted as a role model for other countries to follow, the country’s family planning services it seems have not been up to the mark

A roundtable organised recently by Prothom Alo highlighted the importance of skills-based education in Bangladesh.

It is very disappointing to learn that 10 years into the HC directive to form sexual harassment complaint committees at every educational institution and workplace, only 40 percent schools have complied.

Whenever Eid-ul-Fitr looms on the horizon, it is common to find operators of river vessels scampering to meet the high volume of passengers.

We wonder what the State Minister for Foreign Affairs has meant by saying that the government has taken a zero-tolerance policy to prevent illegal migration.

We thank the High Court (HC) for speaking out on the issue when it observed that the BB has been working in favour of loan defaulters; which has been in the public mind for a long time that undue privileges are being given to large-scale loan defaulters whilst penalising smaller ones.

The readymade garments (RMG) sector contributes 12.5 percent to GDP and accounts for 80 percent of our export basket.

We congratulate the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) on its innovative project called “Year-Round Fruit Production for Nutrition Improvement” which aims to make fruits available all year round so that the nutritional demands of the population are met.

Bangladesh’s economy apparently grew at 8.13 percent in the fiscal year 2018-19, the highest in the country’s history.

We are surprised at the indifference of a private company to the government orders as it is building two slipways in the Meghna river in Munshiganj’s Gazaria upazila

Success in production normally brings a bonanza in profit, but not so in Bangladesh. Every time there is a good harvest of rice, the farmers have to brace for a shock of fall in the price.