A CLOSER LOOK
A closer look
It’s high time Biman was overhauled and corporate governance and a stringent code of conduct was introduced.
Criminals like Samrat, Khaled and Mominul should be miles away from the political scene.
The international community cannot turn their backs on the Rohingya refugees.
Death toll in Syria currently stands over 5,800 (as of 3:30 pm Bangladesh time, February 15). With every passing hour, chances of finding survivors are becoming slimmer.
Like every year, our banking sector had been in the news in 2022, and mostly for the wrong reasons.
Aid agencies, both the Turkish and Syrian governments, and the rebel groups must all work together.
Israel spares neither children nor the elderly in its thirst for aggression and bloodshed.
The recent surge in human trafficking to Cambodia from Bangladesh raises questions about the intentions and capability of the relevant authorities in addressing the situation.
Iran's response to Israel's provocations should be non-violent and measured.
It is high time authorities looked into the situation and made healthcare affordable for all. While increased budgetary allocation would be an essential component, its effective and exhaustive utilisation is also key.
We need to open up to possibilities available outside the ones offered by the West
How wise is it to come to a conclusion about a possible murder case based on loosely connected pieces of evidence, that do not even fully align with previous statements made by law enforcers earlier on in the investigation?
Women's access to finance remains difficult and often riddled with pitfalls.
Misgovernance, corruption, nepotism and subsequent bad debts keep plaguing our banking landscape.
The escape of these militants poses serious risks for national security.
This tragic incident with Ayat sparked off certain questions about the rights of our children and our ability to address them.
While Bangladesh is not a significant narcotics producer, geography puts it at the heart of three major Asian drug trade routes
While the loss of Kharkiv in the northeast and Lyman in the Donetsk region, and now the pull-out from Kherson, are portraying Russia as a frail aggressor, security analysts suggest the war is far from over in Ukraine.
We cannot just allow criminal elements to violate our territorial integrity and flout our law and order system.
Dengue cases are on the rise again, with fatalities recorded almost on a daily basis.
How many women or girls in our country get the opportunity to chase their dreams?
With fatalities declining and people getting used to living with the virus, adherence to social distancing protocols has been mostly absent from public life.
What does the repeated violation of Bangladesh’s land and airspace by the troublesome neighbour signify?
Private sector companies who daily contribute to plastic pollution must come up with ways to manage it.
Many Rohingya women and children who managed to flee rape and genocide in Myanmar end up in the trap of sex trade and trafficking inside the refugee camps in Bangladesh.
We have to understand that these are displaced people living in a perpetual state of uncertainty.
Men who raped Bilkis Bano during 2002 Gujarat riots allowed to walk free on the same day that PM Modi promised to make the nation a better place for women.
The ongoing attacks seem premeditated as they come as part of a well-coordinated package.
It seems Joe Biden has gone back home with very little to show for gains, and a lot of bad headlines that will haunt his media team.
We are still in the midst of a pandemic, although at times – especially when Covid is less active – we seem to lose sight of it and take on a more complacent approach in our fight against the pandemic.
Over the last few years – under the BJP government – India’s religious polarisation has increased in degree and intensity.
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has placed a controversial suggestion in his budgetary proposal: money launderers – read financial criminals – will be allowed to legalise their laundered money without having to face any questions, if they pay a meagre 7-15 percent tax.
The Chattogram depot fire has once again exposed the severe negligence in the handling of hazardous chemicals in Bangladesh.
More than 215,000 people in Bangladesh succumbed to pollution in 2019. The ever lurking, at times invisible, killer—air pollution—alone claimed about 175,000 lives.
Biman is once again making the headlines and, as usual, for all the wrong reasons.
Occupation forces storm Jenin and besiege a house in the Jabriyat neighbourhood. On the way there, I will bring you news as soon as the picture becomes clear,” emailed Shireen Abu Akleh to Al Jazeera at 6:13 on Wednesday morning.
In an unprecedented move, the parliamentary standing committee on housing and public works ministry has directly recommended a major development project—to build an offshore smart city claiming land from the Bay of Bengal—directly to the prime minister.
They come wearing helmets, brandishing machetes and sticks; they vandalise, they kill, and then they are gone, even beyond the long arms of the law.
Three pedestrians were critically injured in the violence. Nahid Mia and Morsalin were among them.
With Covid-19 cases receding worldwide, our lives are entering a new phase, where the “normal” perhaps means a strategic co-existence with an ever-present, maleficent viral disease.
Since the beginning of 2022, 36 Palestinians have been killed by Israel, as revealed by the Palestinian health ministry.
Dhaka is witnessing an early diarrhoea outbreak this year. The hospitals in the city, including the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), are treating hundreds of new patients every day.
Bangladesh has recently achieved a unique milestone: it has become the first country in South Asia to have 100 percent electricity coverage.
Recently, Dhaka North Mayor Atiqul Islam made some comments with regard to traffic management in the city, some of which are not without inherent logic.
Fifty-six-year-old Babul Sardar of Debhata upazila in Satkhira was arrested with 50 bottles of phensedyl on December 11, 2021 by the Detective Branch (DB) of police.
With Omicron spreading rapidly across the world, Bangladesh is bracing itself for the battle against a potential third wave of the pandemic.
The e-commerce sector of Bangladesh witnessed significant growth since the outbreak of Covid-19 in March 2020.
South Asia is home to about a quarter of the world’s population. Sprawling over eight countries, the region is a vibrant mosaic of various ethnicities, religions, cultures and languages.
We couldn’t stand to watch it so we kept our heads down, crying . . . We begged them not to do it. They didn’t care.
Bangladesh and Malaysia have recently signed an MoU paving the way for Bangladeshi migrant workers to reap the benefits of employment opportunities in Malaysia.
One in four Rohingya women and girls in refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, has suffered gender-based violence (GBV), according to data gathered by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in their centres between July and December 2019.
Displaced, colonised, marginalised, terrorised, tortured, victimised, killed; these are just some of the many forms of dispossession and ethnic cleansing the Palestinian people have had to endure at the hands of the Zionists and Israelis since the turn of the 20th century.
Gender-based violence has historically permeated across our social mosaic.
The space for tolerance is shrinking in most parts of the world. From major conflicts to the more subtle acts of discrimination, minority groups, refugees and marginalised communities are facing persecution and suppression in many forms, shapes and scales.
Human trafficking continues to plague Bangladesh. As recently as October this year, the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested 11 traffickers belonging to two rackets—one of them being “Dance Club.”