It did not surprise us when, after the police headquarters (HQ) launched an online complaint cell for people to report about police misconduct and offences, it started to receive a barrage of allegations from day one.

The number of instances of question paper leaks in this month alone, that too of primary school examinations, is staggering. In this

The Myanmar government's decision to ban UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee from visiting the country to assess the state of human

We can only imagine the relief Utpal's mother must have felt when she got a call from her son 10 minutes after midnight last night that he was safe in Narayanganj and would be coming home soon.

We applaud the courage of 15-year-old Ontora who is braving many dangers to serve as a helper on a BRTC bus.

The veto in the Security Council does not surprise us. Trump administration's blatant pro-Israeli tilt made a veto inevitable.

We are shocked at the death of 10 people in a stampede during the qulkhwani of former Chittagong mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury on December 18.

We find the education minister's stance of absolute denial of any responsibility and helplessness in checking the leak of question papers for different examinations disappointing.

The city of Chittagong is undergoing a severe energy crunch.

The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has been doing the work of road improvement, storm drainage and construction of roadside

We are sickened by the report of yet another case of a stalker raping and mutilating a teenage girl in Mymensingh. The report in The

The extraordinary way a freedom fighter in Jamalpur has protested the discrepancies in the process of listing freedom fighters should be a wake-up call for the nation.

There is no doubt that ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, who passed away on December 15, before anything else, was always a champion of the downtrodden.

According to the United Nation's (UN) World Economic Situation and Prospects 2018 report launched on December 14, Bangladesh is set to be one of the fastest growing least developed countries (LDCs) in 2018.

As we begin the 46th year of our independence, we pay tribute to the three million Bangalis who selflessly gave up their lives during our Liberation War in return for us to have freedom, and a country of our own.

The Farmers Bank is in doldrums.

Of course, the prime responsibility is with the education authorities: we can only hope that the ACC investigation prompts them to act soon.

We are quite dumbfounded by the law minister's recent statement that he does not agree with the assumption that law enforcement agencies violate human rights. Given the growing number of allegations against law enforcement agencies committing excesses it is hardly unreasonable to have such "assumptions".

Today is a sad day of remembrance. We pay homage to the brightest souls of the intelligentsia who were picked up and murdered brutally by an occupying Pakistani military and their local collaborators.

The horrific use of rape by Myanmar's armed forces, both sweeping and methodical, as found out by The Associated Press (AP) while interviewing Rohingya women, is appalling.