A report by The Daily Star on Friday sought to unravel the mystery of why the yaba trade couldn't be contained even after a nearly yearlong, often deadly anti-narcotics drive launched last year.

A new global study has found that indoor and outdoor air pollution led to 1.23 lakh deaths in Bangladesh in 2017.

We are worried about the escalation of violence during a three-day country-wide work abstention of different state-owned jute mills that left 16 people injured when clashes ensued between workers and police.

It is unthinkable that the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) is relying on manual inspection of trucks and buses to verify whether they are fit for the road! Sadly,

The prime minister's call to the businessmen not to increase the prices of essentials during the month of Ramadan, including ones that are in high demand during the month like edible oil and sugar, echoes the heart of the people. We thank her for her timely call.

Strangely, the High Court order to various ministries that had been directed by the HC in July 2011 to close down factories producing poultry and fish feed using tannery waste remains unimplemented.

We are shocked by the news of the humiliating treatment inflicted on the new Ducsu VP by Chhatra League activists at the Salimullah Muslim Hall of Dhaka University on Tuesday.

It is outrageous that yet another woman was gang-raped in Noakhali's Subarnachar upazila on March 31, by the supporters of an upazila vice-chairman candidate, for campaigning for another vice-chairman candidate.

When we learn that procedural delays have held up the procurement of much-needed modern equipment for our fire services for the last five years, it gives us pause to think that perhaps fire hazards and firefighting were not high in the list of priorities of policymakers.

It comes as no surprise that a probe report of a committee formed by the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) found 90 percent

The High Court has expressed the sentiments of the common citizens in declaring that even if half the corruption in Petrobangla and Titas was stemmed, raising the prices of gas would have been unnecessary.

That we as a people have scant regard for the natural resources that we are blessed with is well-proven, and well-proven too is the fact that the authorities respond to a situation only when it is too late.

Days after the death of 26 people in Thursday's Banani inferno, a massive fire swept through the Gulshan-1 DNCC kitchen market on Sunday, burning down over 200 shops.

THE recent discoveries by police of the bullet-hit body of a 35-year-old Rohingya man near Noyapara Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf and the body of an 18-year-old Rohingya woman recovered from Balukhali refugee camp

Various poacher gangs are decimating the spotted deer population in Bhola's Monpura forest. The forest, spread out across 5,000 hectares of land, is supposed to be a safe haven for spotted dear.

Hardly had we gotten over the Old Dhaka fire, when we are again left to count the dead bodies of people who per-ished in the inferno at a landmark building in Banani on Thursday, 25 so far.

We wonder why the quality of our roads is so poor while the cost of per kilometre road construction here is the highest in the world.

Almost every day we are presented with horrendous reports of more road accidents and more deaths and injuries.

We are filled with sorrow at the lives lost in the terrible fire at FR Tower in Banani yesterday.

The Singapore-based budget airline Scoot is the latest foreign operator that has just announced its decision to pull out of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA). The reason given to stop its Bangladesh operations is that it is apparently not cost-effective to operate a route here.