The attack on Mahmudur Rahman, acting editor of a Bengali daily, inside the court premises in Kushtia, on July 22, is shocking and disturbing, to say the least.

An unscrupulous nexus of a few corrupt persons in the Institute of Public Health (IPH) has caused scarcity of saline and other key medical supplies in the public hospitals, and there are more than 600 of them in the country, forcing those patients, who are supposed to get this free of cost, to buy from pharmacies outside.

Eight years have passed since the education ministry had in principle decided to introduce a uniform or cluster system for university admission, yet, the government has failed to implement the system still after all these years.

About 1.42 lakh tonnes of coal with a value of Tk 227 crore has disappeared from Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Ltd (BCMCL).

We read with concern a report by this newspaper that major mayoral candidates in the upcoming city corporation elections are failing to comply with election rules.

While the pass rate is not necessarily the only index of the level of knowledge of the students and the standard of education at secondary and higher secondary levels, it is admittedly a very important indicator of the quality of the pupils that go through these exams.

It is astonishing that it took 230 years for our jail authorities to introduce cotton-pillows for prison inmates. That speaks volume about how dangerously punitive our prison system is.

At a time when our education system is rife with problems, from quality and commitment of teachers to the method of teaching-learning

The official refrain about the alleged adulteration of gold deposits in the vaults of the central bank that it is a mere clerical error lacks

It is unfortunate that three members of a family were killed and four others were injured in a microbus CNG cylinder blast in Tangail last Tuesday.

It is not every day we find a state minister lay bare what has been public knowledge for long—that there is rampant and uncontrolled extortion on the highways.

At the time of writing this editorial, there is still no sign of Tarek Rahman, a quota reform leader who has been missing since Saturday. What is so deeply worrying is that Tarek's mother has still not been able to file a general diary due to the alleged non-cooperation of the two police stations—Motijheel and Shahbagh—which gave excuses of a “lack of jurisdiction” and the requirement of “verifying” the complaint first.

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has found that a state-owned bank is openly skirting rules when it comes to foreign exchange transactions. Several major business houses which have been allowed to open letters of credit (LC) and transfer funds abroad, have not submitted bills of entry, which is a proof of goods entering country.

After a month of heightened tensions, eager waits and nail-biting moments, the 2018 Fifa World Cup in Russia is over. With a final between the favourites France and the underdogs Croatia, football fans could not have asked for a more entertaining World Cup.

We have, over the last few weeks witnessed the vicious attacks on students at Dhaka University and Rajshahi University by members of the student wing of the ruling party, attacks that left these students severely injured and then arrested by law enforcement agents.

Light engineering is showing potential as an emerging sector that supplies machinery to our principal foreign exchange earning garments manufacturing base. These small-scale factories make equipment used in washing, dyeing and finishing for use in the textile industry and are also involved in the process of transforming polythene into plastic film for packaging purposes.

With three city corporation elections coming up, we hope the Election Commission and other authorities will take all the necessary steps to ensure free and fair elections in Rajshai, Sylhet and Barisal.

People of Patuakhali town have been suffering from a serious water crisis, as reported by this newspaper yesterday, amidst a blazing summer, with around half the town's tube wells unusable due to a significant drop in underground water levels.

While we compliment Biman for starting the Hajj flight schedule on time,we are dismayed that its Hajj operations are likely to cause dislocation of regular flights, as reported in this paper yesterday.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, as the saying goes. After the injuries of two nurses in an unfortunate incident on Wednesday, in which plaster came off the ceiling of the old building of Noakhali General Hospital and fell on them, the least we can expect is that the victims will recover from their injuries and the trauma of the incident...