UN Secretary-General António Guterres' visit to the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh and subsequent statements reaffirm the need to address the fundamental issue at the heart of the Rohingya crisis—that is citizenship. Myanmar has not even begun the repatriation process despite signing a bilateral deal with Bangladesh in November last year.

We are puzzled that a committee has now been formed to “review or reform or cancel” the quota system for the civil service, come as it does after the prime minister had already announced in parliament on April 11 that quotas in public service recruitment will be abolished and later, on June 26, that a committee led by the cabinet secretary was working to resolve the matter.

We are outraged by a report in this paper of how students of Dolapara Government Primary School in Nilphamari have been forced to refrain from going to class because they cannot breathe the air around them.

We are absolutely confounded at the Road Transport and Bridges Ministry's reaction to a recent report by Jatri Kalyan Samity which found that both the number of road accidents and of related deaths saw a rise during the Eid holidays.

Several leaders of the platform demanding civil service quota reform were allegedly set upon by the members of the BCL while they were about to address a press conference regarding the issue on June 30. And this was not for the first time that students ventilating their grievances collectively have suffered the wrath of the BCL activists.

The use of an elephant to stop vehicles on the Gazipur-Pubail road to collect extortion money, as can be seen in a photograph published by this newspaper yesterday, although not uncommon in our country, should raise a number of questions. Questions that mostly concern animal rights.

The first round of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia refused to play by the book. Teams perceived to be underdogs defied expectations,

Areport in this daily informs us that thousands of Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia are facing arrest and deportation as a rehiring programme ended on June 30.

It is undeniable that disability in Bangladesh is looked upon very negatively. And although in recent times much has been done for the state to become more inclusive in so far as differently-abled persons are concerned, the facilities and the scope have remained limited when compared to the number of people with disability in the country, which in percentage terms is about 16 for every hundred, and increasing yearly.

A photograph published in this newspaper's front page on June 27 of an illegal human haulier stand at Joydevpur, Gazipur shows how mismanagement and lack of enforcement of rules negate the effect of development.

We applaud the government for its recent plan to create a Tk 10,000-crore fund to encourage the jute sector.

Myanmar is playing the citizenship card once again. According to a report by the Reuters,

We are alarmed at the outbreak of Hepatitis E virus in Chittagong's Halishahar and Agrabad areas.

It was a peaceful election in Gazipur—on the face of it. Noticeable by their absence were the traditional inter-party clashes, large-scale rigging and booth and ballot-paper capture—characteristics that have pervaded the system since a long time.

We are heartened to see that the prime minister has issued a set of directives in order to tackle the epidemic of road accidents in the country. The directives come at a critical time—Eid celebrations this year have been marred by the high death toll in road accidents. Last Saturday alone, 52 people were killed in road accidents, which is the highest number of casualties recorded on a single day in recent memory, according to Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity.

According to a report in this daily published yesterday, patients have to receive treatment in an unhygienic environment at the Narayanganj 300-bed Hospital, the largest public hospital in the district.

Completely disregarding the threat of erosion of Guchchhogram at Dahagram's Barabari village in Patgram upazila, sand is being illegally lifted using a shallow machine from a pond, according to a report published by this newspaper on Monday.

Every day 15 mothers die due to pregnancy-related complications. This staggering statistic was revealed at a roundtable by an official of the Health Directorate.

ACCIDENTS on the highways have become so random that the resultant deaths and injuries have become a fait accompli for the passengers and their close family members.

The existence of an organised syndicate led by a Bangladeshi businessman, which has raked in at least two billion Malaysian ringgits in just two years from Bangladeshi migrant workers, is terrifying.