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 ReadMore
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 ReadMore
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 ReadMore
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 ReadMore
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 ReadMore
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 ReadMore
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’ ReadMore
Govt must prioritise relocation of chemical warehouses
This has been five years since the fire at a chemical warehouse in Old Town of Dhaka that left at least 70 people dead in 2019, but the project to ReadMore
