This year the country may face a crisis over sacrificial animals for Eid ul-Adha in the wake of the persisting Indian ban on exporting cows to Bangladesh. The ban has already made pricier beef in the markets here. Even greater than this, we are afraid, will be the problem whether many middle class people…

Rapes used to be a shameful legacy of Bangladesh’s liberation war. But very shockingly, in independent Bangladesh today, the number of rape incidents are rising to worrying levels. According to a report in a leading vernacular daily that quoted human rights organizations, 771 females were raped…

The drug addiction menace Sir, Sometime ago the immediate past  chief of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) told the media that regular drug addicts are to found even in the ranks of the police  these days. This observation of the erstwhile DMP chief underlined how growingly worse the drug…