Editorial | The Daily Star
Publish: November 10, 2013
Editorial

Local machinery help farmers

An impetus to farming

Across Gazipur district, very few buffalos can be seen tilling the land. That is because nowadays in areas like Kaliakair, power tillers and tractors have replaced the traditional cattle-drawn plough. And it is not just ploughing, rather most of the

Editorial

Arresting BNP figures is an outrage

Such provocation can only aggravate matters

The government’s decision to arrest some senior leaders of the BNP and go looking for others has been not only outrageous and unwarranted but also blatantly out of step with rudimentary democratic norms. At a time when the nation is