Editorial

Govt must abandon capitualistic policy towards India

IT HAS been 13 years since India’s Border Security Force killed Felani Khatun in the Anantapur border at Phulbari in Kurigram on January 7, 2011. It is generally not easy

Partisan role of law enforcers threatens democracy, rights

A POLICE team coming to have threatened to shoot an opposition leader once again shows the partisan role and high-handed character of the law enforcement agencies. A law enforcers’ team,

Missing Bogura BNP leaders return home

Shawdesh Desk: Two leaders of main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, who went missing after they were picked up by some people claiming to be from the Detective Branch of police

Children of convicted mothers must not suffer in prisons

INFANTS incarcerated along with their convicted mother with little to no access to child development services, says aplenty about the jail system in Bangladesh. The issue came to light following

Israel resumes Gaza attacks with double vengeance

Disregarding strong international opposition, Israel has resumed massive air and ground attacks with a vengeance on the Palestinian territories of Gaza, West Bank, Khan Yunis and other cities since last

Unabated road fatalities a case of govt apathy

BANGLADESH observed World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims on November 19 amid continued road fatalities. At least three people were killed and four others were injured in road

No respite from road accidents, fatalities

ROADS have remained as fatal as ever amidst a lack of measures to control the road regime. The death of about 15–20 people a day in road accidents on an

High inflation triggers alarming decline in bank deposits

It is disturbing to follow that deposits and savings in the country’s public and private banks have considerably reduced due to all-pervasive high inflation. At the same time, the country’s