Our society still considers violence against women to be a women's issue and holds the view that only women should talk about it or protest it.
Questions have been raised by road safety activists as to whether a human life can be valued at only Tk 5 lakh.
As soon as we got onto Mirpur Road, I felt suddenly unable to breathe properly
Md Ziaul Haque, the director of Air Quality Management at the Department of Environment, talks with Naznin Tithi of The Daily Star about the factors behind severe air pollution in the country and why concerted efforts are needed from all ministries and government agencies concerned to fight it.
NHRC Chairman Dr Kamal Uddin Ahmed talks about how the commission has dealt with the cases of enforced disappearance.
Dr Iftekharuzzaman, executive director of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), talks about how corruption and a lack of good governance have crippled the country's healthcare services.
The time has come now to question these malpractices and demand the much-needed reforms in our healthcare system.
The fact that two children would have to die in the “safety” of their own home just because a pest control agency did not do its job properly is inconceivable.
We have observed a serious lack of accountability in the entire process of electricity price fixing.
Dr S Nazrul Islam, founder of Bangladesh Environment Network (BEN) and Vice President of Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA), speaks with Naznin Tithi of The Daily Star about the causes behind the devastating floods in Sylhet and Sunamganj, and what the government must do to avoid such disasters in the future.
The rainy season has just set in, and we have already started to experience waterlogging in many parts of Dhaka.
Dr Syed Abdul Hamid, professor at the Institute of Health Economics in Dhaka University, talks the allocation for the health sector in the proposed national budget.
When was the last time we heard of any positive news about Bangladesh Railway (BR)? I don’t remember coming across any in recent years.
At a time when everyone is talking about making the national emergency helpline service more efficient—so that more people can get
In 2019, Taqsem A Khan, managing director of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa), faced huge public outrage for saying that the water supplied by Wasa was 100 percent drinkable.
Dr Ainun Nishat, professor emeritus of BRAC University and a water resource and climate change specialist, talks to Naznin Tithi of The Daily Star about the reasons behind the persistent waterlogging problem in the Bhabadaha area and the measures that should be taken to solve it.
The recently reported cruel act of a hospital—that removed oxygen tubes from six-month-old twins because their mother couldn’t pay the hospital bills—speaks volumes about the state of our healthcare sector.
In the early hours of December 24, the deadliest launch fire in Bangladesh’s history wreaked havoc on the launch MV Abhijan 10, burning so many people alive; as of December 28 afternoon, the death toll from the tragedy stood at 42, with more than 50 people still missing.