Opinion

Recently, concern and anxiety have arisen over advertisements on the dark web offering for sale the résumés of a large number of...

If educational institutions are the cradle in which people’s futures are shaped, then what could possibly be more important to such an...

Bangladesh has elected senior politician Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as its 23rd President. Yesterday, after voting for the presidential election...

The shipbreaking industry is important to the economy, but no industry’s economic value can ever determine the value of a worker’s...

When a factory shuts down, the first thing one notices is the absence of sound. There is no noise from the machines, no fire in the furnaces, no...

A horrific fire at a sofa manufacturing factory in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has killed 16 Bangladeshis. The fire broke out at around 2 p.m. local time...

Motorcycle or bike accidents in the country have now taken the form of a silent epidemic. News of accidents has become so familiar and commonplace...

There has been extensive research, reporting, and discussion on the pollution of the rivers surrounding the capital. But a recent survey by the...

Even when there is no real need, many doctors are coming to government medical colleges and specialized hospitals in Dhaka through temporary...

The Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) has found dangerously high levels of mercury in eight brands of skin-whitening creams...

A lie is never born alone. It is born alongside another lie, and then many more follow. Eventually, these lies join hands and construct a reality...

The news that two hotels have been built by encroaching upon the Meghna River and its riverbank in the Shatnol Launch Ghat area of Matlab Uttar...

People use countless products every day, yet they cannot personally inspect or verify each one. Nor is such verification realistically possible....

Since the ceasefire collapsed, the United States-Iran war has escalated dramatically. Full-scale fighting is now underway....

Once, fraudsters appeared at people's doorsteps in disguise. Today, they enter through the mobile phones in people's hands and the screens of...

At a time when news of crises, uncertainty, and despair dominates the headlines, certain achievements inspire hope. One such encouraging...

What could be more disheartening than the fact that imported medical equipment worth hundreds of millions of taka is ultimately being sold to scrap...

The heavy rainfall this season has left vast areas of the country's major cities—including the capital, Dhaka, and...

The Almighty Creator has endowed every living being in this earthly world with an innate instinct: the instinct for self-preservation and the...

Memory is one of the Creator's most remarkable gifts to humanity. It is memory that connects people with their experiences. By weaving together joy...