In the early hours of March 13, a 36-metre-long girder weighing 70 tonnes fell from the flyover and killed a temporary worker while injuring two others.

It is a matter of grave concern that, according to a UN estimate, twenty million people are facing starvation in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria.

The reality of today's conflict-ridden world is that it is prudent for every sovereign nation to have some sort of security preparation.

The Education Minister on Friday blamed a section of teachers for the question paper leaks that have continually plagued our education system.

It is no mean achievement to gain nearly seven times the seat than the previous parliamentary tally. And if it is indeed a tectonic shift in

A picture published on the front page of this paper on March 11 exemplifies our utter carelessness and disregard for basic safety when crossing railway tracks. A train can be seen approaching over the tracks, while another picture shows a biker ducking under the lowered barriers in order to rush across.

The number of road accidents in Bangladesh is one of the highest in the world and these are mostly caused by unfit vehicles plying the roads and highways.

It is shocking to know that despite the government's efforts to fix the cost of getting a migrant worker visa, brokers are still exploiting workers, extracting huge sums.

For days we witnessed medical services being hampered as intern doctors at some hospitals in Bogra, Sylhet and Barisal abstained from work...

We applaud the preemptive drive by police forces on Wednesday that resulted in the recovery of grenades, bomb making materials and cleavers.

In our country where the national average for default on loans is around 10 percent, women entrepreneurs default less than 1 percent.

Shanu Miah, a middle-aged man, fell to death in an open box culvert in the Paltan area this week.

As we observed International Women's Day yesterday, it was very inspiring to find a news report on a woman police officer take it upon

A recent household survey conducted by Oxfam among 330 households in four districts of the country reveals that forty-nine percent of women had not given consent to their parents to go ahead with their marriages.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), pollution in its many manifestations is killing some 280,000 children in Bangladesh annually.

It is perhaps the worst injustice when parents of a slain child have to suffer the agony of knowing that the murderers are allowed to walk freely because they have the protection of powerful individuals.

It is unsettling to note that classes for students of a primary school in Jhalakathi are being conducted on the school veranda for the last two years because of the dilapidated condition of their classrooms.

At the same time, the administration has not been able to give any credible explanation for the large number of people killed under questionable circumstances, unlawful detentions, and forced disappearances that have been reported. Oftentimes, it has gone so far as to even deny the existence of such unlawful activities, accusing those missing of 'hiding', while dismissing concerns regarding their safety as expressed by their relatives.

Is it any wonder that with more than a million vehicles on the roads being driven by people without valid license or no license at all, 64 people are killed every day on the roads?

The UN official stated that the “systematic, structural, and institutional discrimination in policy, law and practice, as well as the long-standing persecution, against the Rohingya and other minorities in Rakhine State” calls for the COI, which is the highest-level probe body of the UN.