There is no good news for onion lovers in the city these days. According to what has been reported in the press lately, local onion is trading at Tk 60 per kilo,

The government's plan of action apparent in the recently launched anti-narcotics drive is not likely to deliver the expected results, it being not an integrated approach which a problem like drugs and narcotics merits.

Dhaka's insufferable traffic system, a major problem for the city, remains in a shambles—as detailed in a report published by this paper yesterday—in spite of several steps taken by the government.

Thirty-eight government and private sector agencies signed an agreement with the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to be connected with the National Single Window (NSW) system.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has managed to apprehend a sophisticated gang that specialised in leaking question papers for both public examinations and recruitment tests.

It is very disappointing to learn from a joint statement by UNHCR, UN Refugee Agency, and UN Development Programme that Myanmar has not granted their staff independent and effective access to the Rakhine State.

We welcome the move by the Dhaka Road Transport Owners Association which declared on August 7 that contractual driving of city buses would end and that drivers will receive monthly salaries.

It is extremely disconcerting to witness that 22 university students have been placed on two-day remands in cases filed over “vandalism and attacks on police.”

We do not know what to make of the CEC's comments that the election commission cannot guarantee irregularity-free national elections.

The cabinet has given final approval to the proposed Road Transport Bill, 2018. There are some good measures in the proposed act like minimum educational qualification (Grade 8) and minimum age (18 years) to get a professional driver license, and introduction of a 12-point system which would lead to ultimately cancellation of license for violation of law.

We deplore the heavy-handed police actions on Monday on the students of several private universities who were protesting against attacks on their peers. Why did police, supplemented by armed goons, fire rubber bullets and tear gas into campuses filled with students leaving scores injured?

The Maddhapara Granite Mining Company Ltd. (MGMCL) is the second state-owned company to suffer from missing resources in so many weeks.

We are outraged at the attacks on journalists of different media outlets by the BCL over the last two days.

The PM has called upon the protesting students to return to their classes, to where they belong. We appreciate the appeal and reiterate her feelings because it is not desirable that students should be on the streets rather than where they ought to be.

We strongly condemn the attack on the members of the media by the activists of BCL and the police. It is shocking that journalists would have their phones, cameras and other equipment snatched and destroyed, harassed and physically assaulted for doing their duty.

The Bagerhat district administration is doing the development work of an Ashrayan (shelter for the poor) project on a new char that has emerged recently in East Sundarbans.

We are dumfounded by the brutal attacks on student protesters, journalists and other citizens allegedly by Chhatra League men yesterday.

As this daily has reported last Wednesday, six cattle markets out of 13, for cattle sales before Eid-ul-Azha, in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) have failed to get a single offer in the last three biddings as a syndicate is forcing general bidders to keep out from bidding.

It has become a predictable reaction of the government to initiate curative actions after a matter precipitates to a point such as we have witnessed in the present situation stemming in the wake of the killing of the two school students.

The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit has detected cases of money laundering involving Tk 4,000 crore and is set to conduct a thorough probe into the matter, according to the Deputy Governor of the Bangladesh Bank.