THE use of electronic voting machines in the next national elections, scheduled for late 2023 or early 2024, has been in discussion for some time, with the ruling Awami League
THE fire in the cropland of the Mro community at Lama, Bandarban allegedly set by a local rubber company on April 27 calls for an impartial investigation and punitive action
THE findings of a survey that the physical health of survivors of the Rana Plaza collapse has deteriorated in the nine years since the disaster, especially during the Covid outbreak,
THE flash flood that hit parts of Sylhet and Sunamganj on Monday and Tuesday has come as a disaster for hundreds of farmers as it has submerged hundreds of hectares
THE death of a minor boy who died after his fellow worker in a factory in Gazipur is reported to have pumped air into his rectum with a compressor on
PRICES keep increasing or continue to remain high after marking up for weeks, further burdening people, especially the poor and low- and fixed-income groups. The situation appears to be constraining
SUPPLY water shortage, a summer-time phenomenon in Dhaka, has started taking place in different parts of the capital city. Residents have also complained dirty and stinking water supply in areas
THE ministry of education on Thursday announced that in-person classes in all educational institutions from secondary to tertiary levels would resume from February 22 with vaccinated students while unvaccinated students
ABOUT a half of small industries have failed to economically recover from Covid shocks. A business confidence survey of the South Asian Network of Economic Modelling says that 46 per
IT IS shocking that activists of the Chhatra League, the student of wing of the ruling Awami league, have tortured another first-year student in the University of Dhaka. The victim,