A memorial ceremony and doa mahfil for Syed Humayun Kabir, chairman of Renata Ltd and founder of Sajida Foundation, will be held

We welcome the decision to mount police vigil on highways to prevent extortion by lawmen and transport organisations during the rush Eid season.

On July 5, the Greek people unanimously voted “No” in the country's referendum on whether to accept the terms of the EU bailout, with a convincing 61 percent of people rejecting the austerity measures brokered by European powers.

Today is the 14th death anniversary of eminent journalist and author Mahbub Anam, former editor of The Bangladesh Times.

A doa mahfil for Justice Sultan Hossain Khan, former chief election commissioner, will be held on Saturday after Asr prayers in Masjid-Al-

The contradictory remarks of the state minister for home and officials of Rab and police, regarding the arrest of sexual assaulters during the Pahela Baishakh celebrations, are both perplexing and disappointing.

Today is the 22nd death anniversary of AZ Syed Ahmed Chowdhury, a former politician and social worker of Feni.

ATM Motiur Rahman, a freedom fighter and civil surgeon of Manikganj, died of cardiac arrest on Monday. He was 57.

Syed Humayun Kabir, chairman of Renata Ltd and founder of SAJIDA Foundation, died at 6:36pm yesterday in the capital's Apollo Hospital, aged 83.

Today is the 22nd death anniversary of AZ Syed Ahmed Chowdhury, a former politician and social worker of Feni.

It is jarring to note that up to two-thirds of the country's children are subjected to some kind of beating by their parents.

While Bangladesh has made significant progress in terms of improving social indicators such as a higher completion rate of primary education and access to drinking water, there are regional disparities in areas such as children's nutrition, access to sanitation and maternal healthcare.

Despite concerns and criticisms from different quarters about the “substandard” quality of wheat imported from Brazil, the government is going ahead with its plans of distributing the wheat under different safety net schemes, such as Test Relief, Open Market Sales and Food for Work programmes.

Saleha Huq, mother of Fayza Huq, former senior staff writer of The Daily Star, died due to old age complications at a Dhaka hospital on Sunday. She was 90.

Sultan Hossain Khan, a former chairman of the Anti Corruption Commission also former chief election commissioner, died on Saturday. He was 91.

Golok Bihari Majumder, a friend of the Liberation War in 1971, who ensured security of Bangladesh's top leaders in India during the war, died yesterday.

Today is the fifth anniversary of death of Matlub Anam, a Language Movement veteran and columnist.

We have poverty eradication programmes aplenty but none by way of eliminating beggary. Thus, we get to hear of the declining numbers of people below the poverty line being claimed as poverty alleviation successes.

A report published in this newspaper yesterday reveals an alarmingly high number of caesarean deliveries performed in private hospitals.

All residents of 51 Bangladeshi enclaves inside India would opt for Indian nationality, according to an unofficial survey. None of the 14,215 inhabitants of those enclaves wants to come to the mainland as "Bangladeshi", says the survey conducted by India-Bangladesh Enclaves Exchange Coordination Committee, a non-government organisation.