Not every day is the entire city's traffic managed by school going students—boys and girls alike. Yet, that is exactly what is happening on Dhaka's streets for the last few days.

Afourth-grade student of Noymile Tripura Guchchagram Primary School was found raped and murdered in a forest.

The prime minister has ordered the BRTA and the DMP to take action against those responsible for the deaths of two students and injuries of several others a couple of days ago, as well as against underage and unlicensed drivers.

While we are happy that the three city mayoral elections have come to an end with little violence, they were, as we had feared, simply the iteration of the Khulna and Gazipur polls. They bear nearly all the hallmarks—from ballot stuffing to expelling election agents—of a heavily manipulated election.

We consider it a matter of grave concern that four million people in Assam have been de-registered, mostly Bengali Muslims, who have become foreigners in their own land. We are equally confounded by this move particularly at a time when Indo-Bangladesh relations is at its peak!

We are quite dismayed to know that between February 2012 and June 2018, despite a recorded number of 4,152 cases of human trafficking, only 25 people have been convicted.

We deeply mourn for the two college students whose lives were lost on Sunday for the lawlessness that plagues our roads. For the recklessness of two buses, which were racing with each other near the Airport Road flyover, Rajib, aged 18, and Mim, aged 17, both students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College, had to pay the price.

After a few months of relative relief, a large part of Dhaka South City Corporation is again at risk of suffering a dengue outbreak, a survey found. Out of the 2,599 buildings and construction sites they visited to conduct the survey, officials found Aedes larvae in 938, thus raising the concern.

We are alarmed to learn that more than 200 Bangladeshi children are in public correctional centres in West Bengal, India, some of them staying there for years. One is surprised to learn the reasons or circumstances of these children and adolescents finding themselves in India, but be that as it may, it's undesirable that so many of them should have to spend such a long time alone in a foreign land.

The Comilla North AL president of the party was picked up on Friday from Lalmatia in broad daylight as he was returning from Jumma prayers.

The Bangladesh Business Awards, jointly organised by DHL and The Daily Star, stepped into its 17th year on July 27 when it recognised the outstanding contributions of two companies and two individuals to the country's economy and development.

We appreciate the comments made by Law Minister Anisul Huq recently that a high-powered committee will be set up to expedite the disposal of some 3.4 million cases stuck in the pipeline. We understand this committee will help investigators produce witnesses and complete investigations at shortened periods of time.

A report by this newspaper on malpractices at the Benapole international passenger terminal shows how a customs system bedevilled by corruption and mismanagement is holding travellers hostage.

The increasing number of election code violations we have seen in the campaigning of the three upcoming city elections is alarming. In most cases, the EC has simply sent show-cause notices to the accused, falling short of investigating the allegations and slapping fines or taking strict actions against the perpetrator.

The supervisor of the bus on which NSU student Saidur Rahman Payel was travelling has confessed to helping the driver to throw the unconscious young man into a canal.

We welcome the High Court (HC) directive that all private clinics, hospitals and diagnostic centres must put on public display the list of charges for various services they provide.

Not a day goes by without a news report of rape, stalking and violence against women and children in the media. In the latest incident that was reported in this daily yesterday, a girl in Nilphamari's Dimla upazila was brutally attacked by her stalker and his accomplices on her way to college.

Although this year's development budget is deemed to be the most ambitious till date, we are perplexed by the allocation of Tk 1 lakh each to 64 projects, many of which are in advanced stages of completion, and have been so for some time.

A photograph published by this newspaper yesterday of the Dhaka-Chittagong highway is extremely revealing of the general state of our highways. The photograph shows hundreds of private trucks left parked on the highway, reducing the Dhaka-Chittagong highway to nearly a single lane.

With Eid-ul-Azha around the corner, the Poribesh Bachao Andolon (Poba) has recently urged the government to monitor how cattle is being reared and fattened in the farms in the country.