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Railway must stop travel on train roof
| Updated at 12:00am on June 09, 2019
A PASSENGER travelling on a train roof died after being hit by a girder of the Hardinge Bridge over the Padma at Pakssey in Pabna...
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Deadly counter-revolutionary militia in Sudan
| Updated at 12:00am on June 09, 2019
IN THE Sudanese capital Khartoum, just a few streets separate hopes for a new Sudan and uncertainty over whether the old Sudan will strike once...
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Media crawled during emergency. Today, is its spine straight?
Saeed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on June 09, 2019
IT IS not a complaint but rather a reflection on the general state of play: in my 50 years of journalism, Narendra Modi happens to...
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Dhaka must shore up issues for Bangladeshis in Malaysia
| Updated at 12:05am on June 08, 2019
MALAYSIA’S iteration of its plan at a meeting with foreign envoys of source countries in Kuala Lumpur, to send back undocumented workers to sending countries...
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Govt needs to contain air pollution in big cities
| Updated at 12:05am on June 08, 2019
AIR pollution, a silent, invisible and prolific killer, is responsible for the premature death of seven million people each year across the world, as the...
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The president lets down Bangladesh in New Delhi
| Updated at 12:15am on June 04, 2019
THE Bangladesh president’s call, during his latest visit to India, on India’s prime minister appears to have breached the diplomatic protocol as it is...
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Police must arrest convict at large on forged papers
| Updated at 12:15am on June 04, 2019
THE Magura police not yet being able to arrest a man, sentenced to imprisonment for life for murder, after he jumped bail given by the...
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When food businesses count, but food frauds don’t
| Updated at 12:15am on June 03, 2019
THE processed food scene appears to have been severely fraught with frauds, almost deliberately effected in most cases, as New Age reported on Sunday, for...
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Safe Eid-time travel still a far cry
| Updated at 12:10am on June 03, 2019
EID-TIME travel has proved to be fatally risky. The Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh says that 339 people died and 1,265 became injured in...
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Manzur murder case probe delay deplorable
| Updated at 12:00am on June 02, 2019
THE change of the investigation officer in the case of the murder of Major General Mohammad Abul Manzur, who was shot in the Chattogram cantonment...