We commend the High Court for passing an order to the Department of Environment (DoE) on December 8 to shut down all illegal industries, factories, and organisations on both shores of the Buriganga and submit a complete compliance report to it.

The alleged genocide case against Myanmar at The Hague begins today, after the Gambia filed a lawsuit against Myanmar on November 11, accusing it of violating the UN Genocide Convention on behalf of the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Conference.

A report published by this daily on December 7, which suggested that a homicide case was filed as an unnatural death (due to suicide) by the police due to the delay in receiving autopsy report, sheds light on the loopholes in our crime investigation process.

We are shocked to learn from a Daily Star report that a part of the Meghna River in Munshiganj is being filled up to set up a petroleum company.

A report from Sylhet in this paper yesterday has revealed some very concerning news. At present there are over a thousand stone crushers operating in six upazilas of Sylhet, most of them without permission or clearance.

A report published by this daily on December 7, on the dominance of smugglers on trains connecting Khulna to Benapole via Jashore, is alarming.

Prices of equipment purchased at Sheikh Hasina Medical College in Habiganj, as this newspaper reported on Wednesday, have been exceptionally high without any explanation.

A recent report titled “Forcibly Displaced Myanmar National (Rohingya) in Bangladesh: Governance Challenges and Way Out” prepared by Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) tells us that the country faces long-term financial, political and security challenges due to the prolonged stay of Rohingyas on Bangladeshi soil.

The sale of illicit arms brought in from a neighbouring country has been an ongoing activity paying huge dividends to those involved in arms smuggling for decades.

The CHT Accord signed 22 years ago was certainly a very significant achievement of the AL government, especially of Sheikh Hasina.

While we are extremely concerned about the level of pollution that has made the water of Buriganga undrinkable (even after treatment) and unusable for any other purposes, the fact that Wasa’s own sewerage lines and drains have been polluting Buriganga came to us as a shock.

Bangladesh Railway’s (BR) fortunes appeared to turn around over a decade ago when the government undertook a major overhaul of this public transportation service and invested thousands of crores, every fiscal, to expand its network.

As one of the countries that are most vulnerable to the climate change, Bangladesh has been working relentlessly to combat the effects of extreme weather events induced by climate change.

The government is set to exceed its annual limit for bank borrowing within the first half of the current fiscal year. This is primarily due to poor forecast on revenue collection.

A recent study by BIDS reveals the reasons why medicine prices are high in our domestic market.

Once again, the observation of the judge in the case relating to the deaths of two students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College—Abdul Karim Rajib and Dia Khanam Mim—has brought to the fore the anarchy that exists in our transport sector.

There are two important points that we would like to flag in this editorial.

The central bank’s plan to award licence to a new non-bank financial institution (NBFI), despite the struggle of around 10 NBFI’s to pay back their customers and the banks, is disturbing.

Hazraat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) has been in the news for some years now. Security, or rather the lack of it had caused a lot of headache for the country’s image. Now, there are

Hazraat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) has been in the news for some years now. Security, or rather the lack of it had caused a lot of headache for the country’s image. Now,