Editorial

Govt must set up drug offences courts

THE High Court on Sunday pulled the government up for not creating tribunals under Section 44 of the Narcotics Control Act 2018 to try the accused in narcotics cases. Until

Banks must shun excessive operational cost

In a bid to reduce excessive and unnecessary operational cost, the country’s central bank otherwise Bangladesh Bank (BB) has asked all scheduled banks to avoid luxury decoration at head offices

Government must give priority to Eid-time travel

IT IS deplorable that people returning to Dhaka after Eid remain as exposed to sufferings as they were when they left Dhaka. Sufferings of Dhaka-bound train passengers intensified on Sunday.

Government must streamline overseas employment sector

ABOUT 75 per cent of Bangladeshi workers were illegally sent to Brunei in 2018 by the middlemen with the connivance of immigration police at the airport. Because of a strong

The queer case of city authorities’ buying insecticide

QUEER it is that Dhaka city authorities, the north and the south, have so far never bought insecticides meant to kill Aedes mosquitoes, the primary vector of dengue. They have

Government must make Eid-time travel a priority agenda

THE way Eid-time passengers suffer on roads, railway and waterways speaks volume of the lack of seriousness of relevant government agencies about making travel safe and smooth. People leaving the

Same old perilous journey for Eid home goers

Condition of more than five thousand kilometres of roads and highways is not safe for home-goers in the upcoming Eid vacation. The Police Headquarters say some forty lakh people will

People must get into habit of donating blood

DENGUE having assumed an epidemic proportion, or ‘endemic’ as physicians struggling to cope with the rush of patients are reported to have preferred to say, has strained hospitals and clinics