We are horrified to learn that two members of the Detective Branch (DB) of police have sold off more than 700,000 seized yaba tablets and made a profit of Tk 8 crore! That the very custodians of the law are now increasingly engaged in criminal activities is a very ominous sign for law enforcement in the country. Such acts cannot be tolerated because the illegal yaba trade has been declared the number one problem in narcotics by the government! Reportedly, there are ongoing investigations into the matter.

A government report has revealed that the dropout rate of girls at the secondary level stands at 42 percent. It is higher than the dropout rate of boys at secondary level, which is 33.43 percent. When the overall secondary school dropout rate has been declining, this high dropout rate of girls is worrisome.

We reported a road crash on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway that resulted in 10 deaths and 30 injured on February 27 because the driver was busy talking on his mobile phone! The very next day we caught on film, a covered van driving on the wrong side of the highway in the Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj district.

The recent comments made by three Nobel laureates when they visited Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, have brought to the fore the need for the international community to be unanimous in taking concerted action against the genocide that forced more than a million Rohingyas to flee their homeland, Myanmar.

Women in general face many obstacles in our society, and for women who are challenged physically or emotionally, those challenges increase exponentially. These women represent one of the most underprivileged groups in society who remain outside the development process altogether and are deprived of work opportunities.

Air pollution is a common phenomenon in major urban centres around the world.

The demonstrations held by various university and college students on February 25 demanding an end to the existing Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) quota system are unsurprising given that such calls have been made numerous times in the past.

Despite repeated assurances from the government that political space will be afforded to all, the way the police cracked down on BNP activists on February 24 seems to indicate otherwise.

The remarks of the Indian Army Chief regarding “planned migration” from Bangladesh and “proxy war” are not only irresponsible but also insensitive.

The satellite images by Human Rights Watch, an international rights group, reveal the extraordinary cover-up efforts by Myanmar to suppress the evidence of the widespread atrocities against Rohingyas that its forces have carried out.

Currently, over 30 percent of women in Bangladesh are participating in the workforce, and according to the current rates this percentage is set to rise to above 80 within the next decade.

It is indeed good news that Bangladesh climbed two spots (index score is out of 100 where a higher score is better) in the global Corruption Perceptions Index 2017. Of course that's nothing to write home about since we scored 28 out of 100, where the global average is 43.

Findings of a study jointly conducted by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) and two other organisations show that approximately 43 percent of the country's total population, that is around 81 million people, would be living in the urban areas by 2029.

The report that Myanmar is 'bulldozing' Rohingya mass grave to hide evidence of killing comes as no surprise to us. It is only natural the perpetrators of genocide will try to cover up following the exposés that appeared in the media.

Security at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) was breached on two consecutive days recently. On February 18, a police sub-inspector (SI) managed to pass through all checkpoints and board a Bangkok-bound flight, and the very next day, a customs officer on pre-retirement leave managed to pass through the security checks. These could not have occurred at a worse time for us. We just managed to get a two-year ban on direct cargo flights

Faced with extortion from criminals who demanded protection money from Chak families to continue to live in their ancestral homes in

The logic of the education ministry taking one hasty decision after another in a spate of few weeks to stop the leakage of SSC question

We agree with the prime minister that it is up to a political party to take part in the polls and that nothing can be done if it chooses not to do so. However, we feel that the matter is more intricate than the prime minister's remarks suggest. It is our belief that as the ruling party, and one that is running the government, AL has also some responsibilities in ensuring a participatory and fair election.

Today we pay homage to those who had laid down their lives on this very same day, back in 1952, in defence of our mother tongue, setting an example the likes of which the world has never witnessed. Their great sacrifice did not go in vain, as it was their call to the Bangalis to stand up for their right to speak their own language that had, in essence, inspired a whole series of events, including the education

We welcome the UK government's decision to fully withdraw the two-year-long ban on direct cargo flights from Dhaka to London with immediate effect.