Public suffering at passport office unacceptable
IN THE recent past, the government has taken significant steps and invested hefty sums from the public exchequer to improve the quality of passport services, but public suffering at passport ReadMore
More efforts needed to ensure legal aid for the poor
THIS is concerning that poor prisoners suffer greatly in accessing justice. Although the government and some non-governmental organisations have provided legal aid services for a long time, many poor prisoners ReadMore
Eid-time travel warrants more govt efforts to stop mishaps
FEARS of fatal road accidents come up every time Eid is celebrated as a huge number of people move out of cities and big town to spend the holiday with ReadMore
Cost, time overruns in projects must stop
The National Economic Council’s upward revision of four proposals for costs and extension of four projects is yet another example of delayed implementation and cost overruns. The council on April ReadMore
Time to address growing wealth inequality
AN UNPRECEDENTED inflation, both food and non-food, has affected people’s purchasing power and influenced the overall economic climate of the Eid market. Eid-ul-Fitr is typically the largest economic stimulus as ReadMore
Worrying inadequacy in hospital fire safety measures
THE finding of the Fire Service and Civil Defence and the National Security Intelligence that Dhaka Medical College Hospital, the premier hospital of the country, grossly lacks fire safety measures ReadMore
Civic space erosion hints at dangerous democratic decline
A GROWING erosion of civil liberties and the repression of civic space are what define today’s Bangladesh. Global rights group Civicus has classified civic space in Bangladesh as ‘repressed’. Civil ReadMore
No govt efforts yet to establish building explosion causes
AT LEAST 14 blasts in commercial and residential buildings in the past decade have left 90 people dead and hundred others maimed for life, but the authorities are yet to ReadMore
