Millers for Nutrition Coalition powered by TechnoServe organised a two-day intensive training on Food Safety Management System (FSMS), Quality Control, and Quality Assurance for Fortified Rice Kernel (FRK) production from October 28 - 29 at Hotel Windy Terrace, Cox鈥檚 Bazar, says a press release.
A report of the Road Safety Foundation has exposed an alarming reality. At least 314 areas across Bangladesh have become accident-prone zones where thousands of people are maimed or killed every year. The study has identified 21 鈥榟igh-risk鈥� areas, including parts of Dhaka, Gazipur, Tangail, Chattogram and Mymensingh, where road deaths are disproportionately high...
RAMPANT food adulteration is a grave and persistent public health threat, with unsafe food turning what sustains life into a slow and silent agent of disease and death. Recent laboratory tests by the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority show how deeply the problem has penetrated the food chain. Of the 15 bread samples tested, 11 contained potassium bromate, a banned...
A report has revealed at least 314 upazilas and cities across the country where more road crashes happened between 2020 and 2024...
Chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has directed the authorities concerned to observe a weeklong fire safety preparedness across the country to ensure fire readiness in all public and private establishments...
Experts called for political commitment to ensure workplace safety, emphasising its inclusion in party manifestos for the upcoming national election...
The government鈥檚 consideration of making 60 hours鈥� training from approved institutes mandatory for driving licences marks a overdue but commendable step towards improving road safety. For far too long, untrained and reckless driving has remained one of the principal causes of the appalling record of road accidents, which continue to claim thousands of lives every...
With the vision 鈥榬oad safety is our collective responsibility鈥�, tyre brand ZESS Tyre undertook an initiative to promote road safety awareness to improve overall road safety conditions, launching a day-long public awareness campaign across 11 major intersections in Dhaka on Wednesday...
AS BANGLADESH observes National Road Safety Day 2025, the grim reality on its roads exposes the hollowness of official slogans and failures of successive governments to make meaningful changes. Despite repeated promises and millions of takas spent on awareness campaigns, roads remain death traps 鈥� chaotic, corrupt and criminally neglected. Over the past...
The overall road safety situation has deteriorated across the country over the past one year while the chaos on roads has intensified...
Fire safety concerns persists as hundreds of readymade garment factories across Bangladesh continue operating without government licences or trade body affiliation, exposing thousands of workers to life-threatening hazards.
At least 417 people were killed and 682 injured in 446 road accidents across the country in September, according to a report published by the Road Safety Foundation on Saturday...
The Fire Service and Civil Defence has provided two-day training on fire safety to 40 members of Dhaka Reporters鈥� Unity concluded on Tuesday...
Covered vans which mostly are modified beyond allowed limits have posed a serious risk to road safety as such goods-carrying vehicles are often involved in fatal road accidents across Bangladesh, said experts, campaigners and transport worker leaders.
THE progressive withdrawal of humanitarian assistance to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh now threatens the safety and dignity of more than 1.2 million stateless people, and places at risk regional stability, Bangladesh鈥檚 social fabric and the prospect of secure, sustainable repatriation. Reductions in support from NGOs, international agencies and the United Nation...
PUBLIC transports remains fatally unsafe for passengers as the interim government has so far kept the sector off its reform agenda. The Passengers Welfare Association of Bangladesh on September 13 reported that at least 86,690 people died and 153,257 became wounded in 62,619 road accidents in 11 years. The number of fatalities, however shocking, is not surprising as...
Bangladesh鈥檚 tourism industry continues to lag behind its South Asian peers, with a decline reported in the business last year, apparently due to deterioration in political stability and law and order...
THE demand for a cyber safety policy for the campus before the students鈥� union elections in the University of Rajshahi is more than justified in view of the extent of cyber harassment that candidates in such elections in the University of Dhaka and Jahangirnagar University faced during campaigns. Women candidates in the Rajshahi University Central Students鈥� Union elections...
THE call that government officials, development partners and rights activists have put out for a comprehensive social protection system covering all marginalised groups to build an equitable society is what the government should heed, especially at a time when Bangladesh, now a lower middle-income country, is set to graduate out of the bloc of least developed...
The road safety campaigns implemented by the authorities concerned in the past six financial years until FY24 utterly failed amid a surge in fatal road accidents in the country.
THE government鈥檚 going ahead with a new law on road safety whilst the Road Transport Act 2018 is in force has created the scope for doubt, especially regarding its enforcement. The Road Transport Act 2018, made on September 19 that year, after a countrywide road safety movement in July 2018 was set into force on November 1, 2019. But the road transport minister...
Around 17 per cent and around 13 per cent fatal road accident victims were women and children respectively in the past month of July, said a Road Safety Foundation report published on Tuesday.
The government is going ahead with the initiative of January 2024 to enact a law to ensure road safety amid frequent fatal road accidents...
AS BANGLADESH moves deeper into the digital age, the internet has become both a playground and a battleground for the country鈥檚 young users. A recent study by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University found that 59 per cent of rural children aged 11 to 17 who access the internet had faced cyber harassment or digital abuse 鈥� ranging from online...
Intern doctors at Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital continued their work abstention for the second consecutive day on Monday, demanding workplace safety and justice for victims injured in an attack allegedly carried out by a group of protesters on medical staff at the hospital on Sunday...
The US state of Louisiana has filed a lawsuit accusing Roblox of facilitating the exploitation of children, prompting the online game platform to reject the claim as 鈥榰ntrue鈥� on Friday...
THE death of three workers at an abandoned building in Netrakona is yet another reminder that the government needs to take urgent steps to protect labour rights in the informal sector. The deceased were involved in the demolition work of the Agricultural Development Corporation鈥檚 irrigation office. They died as the roof fell on them. As it has always been the case, the...
The UK government on Saturday defended a new online safety law following harsh criticism from social network X, saying it was 鈥榙emonstrably false鈥� that it 鈥榗ompromises free speech鈥�...
PLASTERS having flaked off the ceiling in several rooms of the Dr Muhammad Shahidullah Hall in the University of Dhaka has once again exposed the neglect of student safety. A large chunk of plaster came off the ceiling of a bathroom in an extension building of the hall early July 29. While no injuries were reported, resident students say that such incidents are far from...
YET another train collision in Lalmonirhat lays bare the appalling state of railway safety, constrained by mismanagement and institutional negligence. Two air-conditioned compartments of the Lalmoni Express derailed after it had collided with the Burimari鈥揚arbatipur commuter train in the BDR Gate area on July 28. The incident left at least eight passengers injured, two of...
