We welcome the PM's statement that schools should give extracurricular activities as much importance as studies. The comment is indeed timely for it has come at a time when very few open spaces have been left for recreational purposes for children.

To witness two groups of doctors, one on the side of the VC and the other, pro VC protagonists, facing each other in threatening posture and getting involved in scuffles, is a spectacle that no person, least of all educated and responsible persons that those doctors are supposed to be, can savour.

The overuse of pesticides by farmers to prevent attacks on their crops may perhaps help them make a quick buck in the short run, but in the long run, poses many dangers to human health and the environment in general.

After eight years, covering two terms, the tenure of the first African American President of the United States of America came to an end

It has been a year since wheat blast decimated wheat production in the country, and there are indications that the disease may recur this

Donald John Trump was sworn in yesterday as the 45th president of the United States of America. His victory was as surprising as unexpected. And we hope the next four years under his watch would be less so.

The OIC in its 10-point communique at the end of the extraordinary session of its Council of Foreign Ministers in Kuala Lumpur on the Rohingya crisis on Thursday has called upon the government of Myanmar to, among other things, stop its repression on the Rohingyas and restore their citizenship that is being denied to them by bringing in changes to its reprehensible citizenship law of 1982.

On Tuesday, a clash between local Awami League and a former Jubo League men in Sunamganj left three people dead and 20 injured.

We are taken aback by the government decision not to slash fuel prices after all! This is very awkward, particularly because the finance

A report in this newspaper has revealed that over 20 markets belonging to the two city corporations are woefully lacking in effective fire safety equipment on their premises.

A report in this daily yesterday shed light on the shocking proliferation of teen gangs in Uttara where over two dozens of these groups operate. On January 6, Adnan, a fourteen-year-old boy,

Admittedly, there was a degree of uncertainty in the minds of many, though not openly articulated, that given the links of the masterminds and their calling, the sensational seven murder case may be stalled, if not scuttled entirely.

Readymade garment (RMG) sector, the financial barometer of the country, has witnessed a slew of violent unrest at regular intervals in the last couple of years.

The second spell of cold wave has begun to sweep across the country, including divisions of Rangpur, Rajshahi and Sylhet, since

The situation prevailing at the Chittagong University of Science and Technology (CUST), where MBBS students are facing uncertainty as Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council (BMDC) has refused to register them, is unacceptable. The reason for BMDC not registering 1200 students is that the university administration had inducted more than the approved number of students.

It seems a measure of how badly things have gone out of hand when it comes to road safety that 14 people were killed and 61 injured in

The plight of Halim, whose son's life was taken away by a bullet of ruling party goons while they were trying to occupy a polling station in

A photo published in this newspaper yesterday showed an improvised motorised three-wheeler, known as Nasimon, in a major

How many more wake-up calls do authorities need to realise that carrying coal, or other ecologically harmful substances, particularly on

The Dhaka South City Corporation's (DSCC) decision to remove hawkers from the roads and footpaths of Gulistan and its adjacent areas