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
Govt must end abuse of Digital Security Act
THE concern that the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed over the growing political violence, arbitrary arrest and the harassment of rights activists in Bangladesh and an ReadMore
Chronic indifference towards fire safety must be addressed
THE government’s continued failure in maintaining fire safety standards in workplaces has resulted in another fire in Chattogram. At least six people died and 30 others became injured in an ReadMore
Loss of academic months unacceptable
A LARGE number of primary students across the country have lost two academic months as the government has failed to print and distribute textbooks in a timely manner. In 2023, ReadMore
