Editorial

Ever-increasing procession of death on roads must stop

THE Road Transport Authority reports that 215 people died and 278 became wounded in 216 accidents around Eid time. The chair of the BRTA has urged the public to adhere

Govt must attend to relocation of tannery pollution to Savar

THE pollution of the River Dhaleswari on Dhaka’s outskirts of Savar by way of the effluent — treated, half-treated or, even, untreated — having been discharged comes up once again

Remarks that betray reluctance to hold former IGP to account

IT BEATS logic when the government and its agencies say that they do not know whether the former inspector general of police Benazir Ahmed, accused of accumulating illegal wealth to

Govt approach to media governance is repressive

BANGLADESH Television, a state-owned national TV network that has already been suffering from a trust deficit for acting as a mouthpiece for governments that came into power, has been implementing

Bangladesh Railway suffers from lack of policy attention

THE development of Bangladesh Railway has not been a priority of successive governments, as evident in the inadequate resource allocation and deflected policy attention from it. A large majority of

Brick kilns on river question govt’s will to protect rivers

The sorry state of rivers is blamed, among others, on an unabated grabbing of river land by entrepreneurs and individuals enjoying political and moneyed clout. Some entrepreneurs setting up brick

Govt must stop farmland loss to ensure food security

THE land minister’s directive for divisional commissioners to prevent any unauthorised use of arable land for housing, industrial or other commercial purposes is welcome. The minister at a divisional commissioners’