We find it absurd that the state-owned banks should ask for Tk 20,000 crore allocation in the next budget, despite continued poor performance of some of these banks.

Now that Bangladesh has implemented what Myanmar demanded—a family-wise list of Rohingya returnees—we expect the latter to carry out its part immediately.

A report in a leading Bangla daily on February 18 is a shocking example of both illegal and inhuman acts of the police.

A picture of a truck carrying iron rods near Dhaka University's TSC area published by The Daily Star on Thursday shows the iron rods jutting out into the road, and running in broad daylight despite there being a restriction on daytime entry of goods-carrying trucks into the city.

On the occasion of our 27th anniversary that we celebrated yesterday, we must express our sincere gratitude to our readers, patrons, advertisers and well wishers who have, over these years given us tremendous support by placing their trust in us and giving us the courage to continue in our endeavour to engage in ethical journalism.

Questions are constantly raised about our civil bureaucracy's efficiency.

Earlier this month Myanmar had asked the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to not visit the Rakhine State.

A collage of pictures on the back page of this paper published on February 14 speaks volumes about a ban on motorcycles plying footpaths for pedestrians.

We are surprised to learn that donor agencies are “losing interest” in providing food assistance for the displaced Rohingyas in Bangladesh.

We are deeply disappointed by the House's passing of the Law and Order Disruption (Speedy Trial Amendment) Bill, 2018 that has raised the jail term to seven years from five.

It appears that assaulting teachers is becoming a way of life with some people.

The decision to suspend Internet services to tackle question paper leaks, and its subsequent withdrawal, is part of a pattern that has frequently characterised government responses to problematic developments in the public sphere.

Last year, on August 25, 27-year-old Rupa Khatun was brutally gang-raped and murdered on a moving bus in Tangail.

We find it hard to drive away our frustration over the government's failure to stop the question paper leaks of this year's SSC exams, as all the question papers of SSC exams held so far have been leaked.

On February 3 this paper published a picture of hundreds of bags filled with black engine oil covering large portions of the sandy bank of the Karnaphuli river in Chittagong.

We welcome the news of an imminent lift of UK's ban on air cargo from Dhaka to London imposed two years ago.

The recent Reuters report on the mass execution of 10 Rohingya men on September 2, 2017 in Inn Din village of Myanmar's Rakhine State is groundbreaking for many reasons.

Private healthcare was introduced partly to take the pressure off public hospitals struggling with a huge number of patients and stem the flow of those going abroad for treatment, depriving the country of sizable revenue.

That repatriation of the Rohingya refugees will be meaningless without creating a favourable environment for their return and proper resettlement is beginning to be clear.

There was a time when Dhaka University was lauded as “Oxford of the East” due to the standard of its faculty and quality of its education.