THE world is facing a serious water crisis, with 26 per cent of the global population still lacking access to safe drinking water, and a staggering 46 per cent are deprived of basic sanitation facilities. These alarming statistics, revealed in the UN World Water Development Report 2023, serve as a grim reminder of how far we are from achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6, which aims to ensure safe water...
Abu Saleh Akon of the Daily Nayadiganta and Mynul Hasan Sohel of the Daily Inqilab have been elected president and general secretary of the executive committee of the Dhaka Reporters Unity respectively...
Centre for Policy Dialogue distinguished fellow Debapriya Bhattacharya on Thursday expressed his dissatisfaction as to why the assets amassed through looting had not been confiscated...
Jashore correspondent of Independent TV, Ziaul Haq, and his camera person, Sharif Khan, were come under attack while working on an investigative report connecting to corruption in the district on Wednesday...
A journalist in Burundi is at risk of a 12-year jail term over information she shared in a private WhatsApp group, global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said...
Transparency International Bangladesh executive director Iftekharuzzaman on Saturday said that while it was difficult to determine the exact amount of money laundered from Bangladesh, various estimates suggest that an average of $12鈥�15 billion was illicitly transferred out of the country each year...
Adviser to the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives, AF Hassan Ariff, announced on Tuesday that the government plans to appoint 鈥榝ull-time administrators鈥� for city corporations, municipalities, and upazila parishads to ease the challenges faced by service seekers...
The Plastic Foundation, a platform representing 14 plastic manufacturers鈥� associations, on Monday urged the government to consult with stakeholders to assess the economic impact before implementing its plan to phase out single-use plastic products...
SO AS to secure living, we usually work and dedicate at least one-third of 24 hours or more at the workplace. For instance, a person with a 35-year-long career has spent about a decade in the workplace dealing with colleagues, clients and other stakeholders. Since it has been entangled with us, its impact on every sphere of our lives is undeniable...
THE Financial Stability Report 2023 of the Bangladesh Bank paints a disturbing picture of the banking sector that deteriorated rapidly during the Awami League regime. The total amount of distressed assets in the banking sector surged to a staggering Tk 5.47 lakh crore, or about 32 per cent of the total outstanding loan, by 2023. The amount is...
The Law Reporters Forum (LRF), a platform for journalists covering law, justice and human rights, on Sunday condemned the increasing practice of filing unfounded cases against journalists, characterising it as a serious violation of the rule of law and a direct assault on freedom of expression.
BANGLADESH stands at the crossroads of a national reckoning. Of many serious issues facing the nation, first and foremost is the dire need to combat corruption. According to a Transparency International Bangladesh survey report, citizens of Bangladesh perceive political parties (62 per cent ) and the parliament (40 per cent) as among the most corrupt...
THE State of Global Air is a research and outreach initiative of the United States鈥� Health Effect Institute and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation鈥檚 Global Burden of Disease project. In collaboration with the United Nations International Children鈥檚 Emergency Fund, the State of Global Air has published the State of Global Air Report 2024 on June...
BANGLADESH bleeds as over $3 billion drains from Bangladesh annually through offshore accounts. According to a recent report, close to $150 billion was siphoned off the country during 15 years of kleptocratic Hasina regime鈥檚 misrule. Nearly $50 billion went out of the country in the first six years (2009鈥�2015) of the Hasina regime...
Dhaka Reporters Unity demanded immediate reopening of all closed media outlets and brought attackers on the journalists and media offices to book...
More than 100 countries, including China, are at risk of entering a 鈥榤iddle-income trap鈥� and failing to become wealthy nations, the World Bank said Thursday as it unveiled a 鈥榗omprehensive roadmap鈥� to reach high-income status...
THE death of three students in road accidents on an average every day, which has happened for five years and a half, as a Road Safety Foundation report published on July 13 says, is as concerning as any other such death. The report says that at least 5,619 students died in traffic accidents in January 2019鈥揓une 2024, noting that 611 students...
Road accidents killed three students on average per day in the country in the past five years and a half, revealed a Road Safety Foundation report published on Saturday...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday filed a case against seven people, including former director general of the Directorate General of Health Services Professor Abul Kalam Azad and JKG Health Care chairperson Sabrina Sharmin Hossain, on charges of cheating people by preparing fake Covid-19 test reports...
The Newly elected executive committee of Law Reporters鈥� Forum for the tenure of 2024-2025 officially took over the office on Thursday from the outgoing committee in a ceremony at its office on the Supreme Court Bar Association compound.聽...
Five Bangladeshi universities earned spots among the world鈥檚 top institutions for the 2024-25 academic year, according to the US News and World Report, a prominent American media company renowned for its rankings and analyses...
Law Reporters鈥� Forum on Friday elected its 12-member executive committee with Ashraf-Ul-Alam as its president and Moneruzzaman Mission as general secretary for the 2024-2025 term....
Trafficking in persons in and from Bangladesh continues amidst a lack of efforts on part of the authorities. Although the government claims to have taken special measures to stop human trafficking, incidents of internal and transnational trafficking in persons have continued, suggesting the inadequacy of the measures taken...
A Road Safety Foundation report, published on Monday, showed that daily 20.15 people were killed in road crashes between June 11 and 23 while the country people celebrated Eid-ul-Azha...
EACH year, the International Organisation for Migration releases its World Migration Report. Most of these reports are anodyne, pointing to a secular rise in migration during the period of neoliberalism...
The High Court on Tuesday asked the jail authorities to respond in 30 days to a lawyer鈥檚 letter seeking post-mortem reports of 13 leaders of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, who died in jail custody before January 7 parliamentary elections and in the aftermath of it...
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said on Monday it had filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court over Palestinian journalists killed or injured in Gaza...
Ruling Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader has said that the government remains alert so that no journalists face any harassment in the name of Digital Act.....
BANGLADESH has come to be categorised as a 鈥榗risis鈥� country in terms of the freedom of expression, as the Global Expression Report 2024 that the UK-based rights organisation Article 19 launched on May 21 says, with a score of 12 out of 100 in the 128th position in a list of 161 countries...
