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Govt must look into if Mushtaq was tortured, pushed to death
| Updated at 12:00am on March 06, 2021
THE statement of the home minister that committees set up to investigate the death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed, which took place in prison in Kashimpur...
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New Delhi’s stand on border death in no way acceptable
| Updated at 12:00am on March 06, 2021
NEW Delhi, which has so far repeatedly given assurances of ending death along the Bangladesh-India frontiers and showing restraints and using non-lethal weapons in control...
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Salary must replace trip-based payment of transport workers
| Updated at 12:00am on March 05, 2021
IMPROVEMENT in the chaotic city road regime appears to be hinging on two issues — the introduction of a bus franchise and the appointment of...
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Waste of public money in govt officials’ foreign tours must stop
| Updated at 12:00am on March 05, 2021
OVERSEAS study tours of public servants, which appear to be nothing but pleasure trips at the cost of public money, in most cases have produced...
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Govt must put in efforts to stop human-animal conflicts
| Updated at 12:00am on March 04, 2021
HUMAN-ANIMAL conflicts remain a concern because of their adverse impact on the local wildlife. A number of reasons play a role for such conflicts. One...
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Deplorable delay in ACC’s loan scam investigation
| Updated at 12:00am on March 04, 2021
THE banking sector, burdened with loan irregularities, gross mismanagement and undue interference of politically appointed boards in banking affairs, has become a growing malignancy of...
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Government must stop unholy entente of officials behind financial scams
| Updated at 12:00am on March 03, 2021
THE gap of half an hour between the departure of PK Halder, a former NBR Global Bank managing director, through the Benapole land port on...
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BNP’s Rajshahi rally and the same old bus service suspension
| Updated at 12:00am on March 03, 2021
BUS services on all routes to and from Rajshahi were suspended as the mayoral candidates of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party who lost city corporation elections...
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Polls mired in irregularities hurt democracy
| Updated at 12:00am on March 02, 2021
MARKED with violence and irregularities, the 5th phase municipal elections in 29 of the 30 designated municipalities was held on Sunday. While the Election Commission...
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Independent commission must to probe law enforcers’ crimes
| Updated at 12:00am on March 02, 2021
OVER a hundred Supreme Court lawyers coming to file a public interest litigation writ petition seeking a court directive to the government for establishing an...