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Government must arrange for more special flights for migrants
| Updated at 12:00am on April 21, 2021
THE suspension of international flights as part of the government’s Covid mitigation plan for a week from April 15, but now extended by another week...
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Mobile treatment teams can make a good Covid response plan
| Updated at 12:00am on April 21, 2021
THE Gonoshashthaya Kendra founder Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury has come up with a suggestion for the government to roll out mobile medical teams for primary treatment...
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Worrying penetration of partisan politics into social fabric
| Updated at 12:00am on April 20, 2021
AN IMAM, a person who leads a prayer in congregation, of a local mosque in Feni coming to be laid off from his job on...
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Government must commit to reducing income inequality
| Updated at 12:00am on April 20, 2021
GROWING income inequality, that too during the Covid-19 outbreak, is a sign of uneven development. Central bank data show that the number of bank accounts...
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Dhaka must stand up to Delhi in Bangladesh’s deep sea claim
| Updated at 09:30pm on April 18, 2021
BANGLADESH’S maritime boundary dispute that has yet to be settled is its claim on ‘grey areas’ in the northern Bay of Bengal, born out of...
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Judicial investigation a must in Banskhali police violence
| Updated at 12:00am on April 19, 2021
THE killing of at least five workers of an under-construction power plant in Chattogram on Saturday is another instance of the government’s failure to resolve...
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Govt must stand by farmers who have lost crops
| Updated at 12:00am on April 18, 2021
A LARGE number of farmers have lost their boro production to the heat shock that swept over half of the country on April 4 when...
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Govt must put in required efforts to save public health
| Updated at 12:00am on April 18, 2021
THE arrest of nine people by the Rapid Action Battalion in possession of a huge number of COVID-19 and HIV test kits and reagents that...
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Women entrepreneurs must receive adequate stimulus benefits
| Updated at 12:00am on April 17, 2021
A MARKED gender bias in the disbursement of the stimulus package meant for the cottage, micro, small and medium enterprise sector is worrying. While the...
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Agencies appear underprepared to enforce restrictions
| Updated at 12:00am on April 17, 2021
THE fresh restrictions for eight days on public movement and businesses that the government put into force as part of a preventive measure against the...
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