The Hon'ble President has appointed a new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and four Commissioners; the reaction of some political parties is predictable.

The news of inhuman treatment of a girl or woman at the hands of her husband and in laws has become a regular phenomenon.

We are deeply disturbed by an Ain o Salish Kendra report, according to which as many as 59 members of Awami League (AL) were killed in factional feuds in the last two years.

The running of hospitals without doctors is worryingly becoming a new trend. The latest to join the growing list is the Pirojpur Mother and Child Welfare Centre (MCWC) which, since December last year, has been running without a single doctor.

Community-based mediation can make justice more accessible to rural people as it can solve local problems locally saving both time and money, legal experts said at a conference in the capital recently.

The authorities have dragged their feet on the issue for years, and for years Dhaka residents have paid the price as the principal river feeding the city, the Buriganga, went on being polluted to the point that marine life became largely extinct. Pollution levels have reached critical levels and the toxicity of the water has risen so much that it can no longer be treated effectively by WASA.

That a personal animosity between members of the Awami League should result in the death of a journalist is outrageous.

That two officials of a Chinese company can be held at gunpoint, and that too inside the Rail Bhaban (head office) is quite unthinkable. These two individuals had gone to submit tender documents and they were literally hijacked by a gang who brandished firearms and took them to the 8th floor of the building which is apparently more secluded than the rest.

Aphotograph published on the front page of this newspaper on Wednesday, showing a bent and dented battery run

There is only one way to have described the picture that appeared in page two of this paper on yesterday and in almost all newspaper in

We warmly welcome Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who is on a three-day official visit to Bangladesh. As a nation that earned its liberation through a bloody war, we stand by the people of Palestine and voice solidarity with them in their demand for full statehood.

We agree with the opinion of the visiting Rakhine Commission that granting citizenship to Rohingyas is imperative for a lasting solution to the ongoing crisis.

How does one describe the lavish feast hosted by a local Awami League leader in Akkelpur upazila of Joypurhat recently?

The Cabinet has approved in principle the draft of “The Dowry Prohibition Act-2017”. It incorporates the earlier Dowry Prohibition Act, 1980 and subsequent amendments.

We are apalled at the scale of brutality that a female migrant worker has endured in the hands of traffickers in Malaysia. She was raped and forced into sex labour before she was rescued. And all this in the hands of her fellow countrymen.

Faced with a barrage of reports, the Industries Ministry has formed a probe committee to investigate into the long-running cases of graft involving fertiliser shipment, transportation and management.

The six back page pictures in Sunday's issue of this paper speaks volumes about the blatant disregard of traffic rules by vehicle users and more importantly, the obvious lax enforcement of them by the police.

The Search Committee formed under the orders of the Hon'ble President to recommend names for the new Election Commission, has started its work on the right note. It has sought suggestions in this regard from the 31 political parties that the Hon'ble President had met to discuss the most topical issue of the time – formation of the election commission. It also has plans to meet 12 eminent persons to solicit their views and opinions in this regard today.

We condemn in the strongest terms the burning down of Gono Unnayan Academy High School by some miscreants. Anyone who has seen the tears of the grieving students at this loss cannot help but wonder what the perpetrators are made of.

The story of Badal Mia, a railway staffer, who died last Friday saving a woman and her 5-year-old daughter from imminent death, fills us with pride. Going beyond his duty, the 55-year-old technical assistant at the engineering department of Bangladesh Railway rushed to help when many others would simply stand by. It is a profound example of humanity's triumph.