We are concerned at the fact that the libraries in the capital, including the central library of the University of Dhaka (DU), are increasingly being used by students for reading BCS guides rather than for academic purposes.

Mohammadpur Geneva Camp’s drug lord Ishtiaq Ahmed is reportedly back in the drug game at the highest level.

A recent report published by this daily revealed that Sonadanga Bypass Road, the main way leading in and out of Khulna, is in a dilapidated state because the concerned authorities have paid no attention to the dire condition it faces.

Is the administration concerned about road accidents? It would seem not. Road accidents, unfortunately, have become quite a norm in Bangladesh given that hardly a day passes without some grim stories and pictures in the media of road accidents and the death and destruction that they wreak.

The recent fire in the capital’s Eskaton, which killed three people, two of them children, and left six others injured, two of them in critical condition, brings to the fore the complete apathy of the building owners and the government agencies concerned about the fire safety issues in the city.

We are dismayed that, at a time when security at airports all over the world are a topmost priority, when it comes to our own Hazrat Shahjalal Airport there are still many gaps to fill.

In a worrying development, a report in this daily said that experts are warning of a record increase in Culex mosquitoe population next month.

The poor quality of air has been a pressing concern from the beginning of this month, when the High Court directed the public

Not long after announcing its idea to introduce a uniform admission test at the public universities, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has already had to backtrack on its plan.

We are extremely shocked at the rape and murder of a 12-year-old madrasa student by her teachers in Brahmanbaria’s Nabinagar

It is indeed shocking that despite the health ministry’s approval in 2007 for the construction of a seven-storey extension building for Sher-e-Bangla Medical College and Hospital (SBMCH) in Barishal, the project is yet to be finished.

We are deeply saddened by the deaths of at least 27 people in violence that has erupted in Delhi over the last three days over India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

The HC has issued a rule on the government asking why two of the sections of the Digital Security Act, 2018 (DSA) should not be declared illegal.

A report published in this daily on Monday reveals that despite the government taking various steps and investing crores to improve the services provided by Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC), private transport owners and workers have systematically managed to obstruct many of its initiatives.

Questions raised after the crackdown by Rab against Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia have a familiar ring because versions of these same questions have been asked after similar crackdowns in the recent past: what enabled these leaders—who abused their connections to run criminal enterprises—to dodge scrutiny for so long, and why is no action being taken against their enablers?

The World Bank (WB) report on the state of road safety in Bangladesh only reinforces what the media has been continually projecting for a long time.

We are deeply concerned by a report in The Daily Star on February 23 that a rape victim and her family members in Gazipur city are passing days in fear being threatened by the rapist and his associates.

We are shocked to learn about the fate of a student hostel which was built at Chelachara village in Kawkhali upazila of Rangamati to provide accommodation to the indigenous children of remote areas. According to a report by The Daily Star on February 21, the hostel, which was constructed some nine years ago, has been lying useless because of fund crisis.

The poor outcome of a government initiative to ensure that children from minority ethnic communities are given early childhood education in their mother tongue is symptomatic of how well-intentioned projects are doomed to fail if they are not well thought out. Lack of planning and properly structuring of this initiative seem to be at the bottom of such failure.

We are alarmed to learn that a syndicate is openly stealing natural gas worth crores of taka from the gas supply lines each month and providing illegal gas connections in three upazilas of Brahmanbaria. According to a report by The Daily Star, the syndicate is even issuing fake “demand notes” and “bill books” to clients and collecting bills through accounts in different banks.