Editorial

PM’s visit may expedite reopening of Malaysian labour market

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s first overseas trip to Kuala Lumpur is likely to help lift the moratorium on the recruitment of Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia. This issue topped the agenda ReadMore

Unsafe food demands strict urgent action

RAMPANT food adulteration is a grave and persistent public health threat, with unsafe food turning what sustains life into a slow and silent agent of disease and death. Recent laboratory

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Heavy-handed response to legitimate demands deplorable

POLICE high-handedness towards protesting teachers of secondary schools under the government’s monthly pay order scheme on October 12 in Dhaka is deplorable. This is especially so as the demands are

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Police reform, accountability still deplorably elusive

THIS is concerning and a disservice to the spirit of the July uprising that a section of police personnel is still involved in criminal and corrupt activities. The involvement of

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Steps against under-5 mortality should be in priority focus

THE findings of the UN 2024 report, Levels and Trends in Child Mortality released in the last week of March by the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation,

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