Almost every day we are presented with horrendous reports of more road accidents and more deaths and injuries.

We are filled with sorrow at the lives lost in the terrible fire at FR Tower in Banani yesterday.

The Singapore-based budget airline Scoot is the latest foreign operator that has just announced its decision to pull out of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA). The reason given to stop its Bangladesh operations is that it is apparently not cost-effective to operate a route here.

A report published in this daily on March 27 has once again brought to the fore how the vulnerability of indigenous communities is often used as an instrument of exploitation against them.

It is alarming to learn that most private medical colleges in the country are running without sufficient number of teachers, let alone experienced teachers, and without the necessary infrastructure.

The 18km-long main canal that was commissioned in 1998 which is connected to other secondary and tertiary canal networks, spanning

This newspaper on March 24 reported how Rajuk is trying to change land allotted for educational institutions and environmental preservation in the Purbachal Project into commercial and business plots.

Today marks 48 years of Bangladesh as an independent country. Today, we feel proud as a nation for how far we have come in only a little less than half a century since independence.

If numbers are meant to impress, one must admit that the latest report of the latest committee on road safety, albeit in draft form presently, is a voluminous document deserving our praise.

The Kurdish-led forces in Syria pronounced the death of the IS caliphate after raising their flag in Baghouz, a remote riverside village, where jihadists of different nationalities made their last desperate stand against the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.

Various reports on the occasion of World Water Day, observed on March 22, have brought the terrible foreboding of a scenario in which we will literally run out of water.

Damning reports along with horrendous pictures about the state of our transport sector were published in all our major national dailies yesterday.

A recent report by the Department of Environment (DoE) states that the discharge of industrial effluents into the Halda River is causing depletion of fish stocks.

It is surprising that scores of drug related cases would remain unadjudicated, some of them for as many as eight years, because witnesses fail to turn up for the hearings.

We are befuddled how the government proposes to increase forest land to 20 percent of the country's total land mass by 2030 when every year various government agencies are taking up forest land for their establishments and development projects.

Following the death of university student Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury who was run over and killed by a bus on March 19, the capital city and some other parts of the country have been rocked by student demonstrations.

Local people living on Manpura Island of Bhola are witnesses to the decimation of trees like chambol and raintree for brick kilns.

How many will have to die before something as fundamental as the safety of travelling is ensured?

The railway minister recently hinted about the possibility of raising train fares in the future. But before that is done, we suggest that the ministry addresses a few important things that ail the sector.

According to a report in this daily on March 18, around 300 to 400 Bangladeshi migrant workers are being deported every week from Saudi Arabia.