The results of this year's HSC examinations have hit an eight-year low, falling 10 percentage points to 65.84 percent from last year's 75.74 percent in all the eight general education boards.

It appears that we have an issue with illegal migration on our soil or overstays on various pretexts. This is concerning on two levels.

When the roads and highways are strewn with rundown and ramshackle vehicles, the syndicates are proving to be serious impediments to the introduction of new and comfortable vehicles in the private sector.

ANOTHER blogger has been killed in the capital in broad daylight on Friday. The casualness and impunity with which the killers

Investigate allegations, take action

The Jatiya Sangsad committee on home affairs formed a sub-committee to find solutions to the capital's appalling traffic situation.

Prices of vegetables and spices have seen a steady rise recently in the capital's kitchen markets while that of staple rice and edible oil remain steady.

Bangladesh Law Commission, in a recent report, has suggested that some lacunae exist in the Mobile Court Act 2009 which may render it susceptible to violation of human rights. According to the commission, the Act, which empowers executive magistrates to hold trials, contains provisions that can be repressive such as, sending offenders to jail for failing to instantly pay the monetary fine imposed by mobile courts.

A recent study by Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) of public examination question leaks revealed some interesting insights.

A city councillor has reportedly put up iron gates in the capital's Arambagh, Fakirapool and adjoining areas for over a month purportedly as a security measure against petty theft and restricting entry of unwanted personnel.

We are appalled and outraged at the barbaric killing of a thirteen-year-old boy named Rakib in Khulna. The perpetrators inserted a high-pressure air pump nozzle into the boy's rectum and pumped air into his body that tore apart his intestine and burst his lungs.

We wholeheartedly welcome the High Court's directive to stop unfit motor vehicles from plying on the roads. The HC's suo moto rule to freeze around 19 lakh fake driving licences is also a laudatory move.

The embankment area known as Dhaka-Narayanganj-Demra (DND) has trapped rainwater inside what was supposed to be flood-free zones.

As inhabitants of the 166 enclaves celebrate the end of 68 years of statelessness with the historic swapping of enclaves between India and Bangladesh completed, some of them are left to confront some harsh realities on the ground, such as land grabbing by powerful stakeholders in the enclaves that have gone unchallenged for the most part over the past decades.

As inhabitants of the 166 enclaves celebrate the end of 68 years of statelessness with the historic swapping of enclaves between India and Bangladesh completed, some of them are left to confront some harsh realities on the ground, such as land grabbing by powerful stakeholders in the enclaves that have gone unchallenged for the most part over the past decades.

It befits the highest seat of learning to have the basic amenities in shape. Sanitation-wise, that is hardly the case in some public universities in the country.

In a brazen display of disregard for government orders, three-wheelers continue to hog the highways to the discomfiture of heavier vehicles.

That the much-vaunted Korean Export Processing Zone (KEPZ) project has remained virtually stuck for the last 17 years is as unwarranted as it is instructive.

We are appalled at the news of yet another gang rape of a teenage girl in the capital, only a week after a similar horrific incident took place

We breathe a sigh of relief that the main strength of Komen did not make landfall on Bangladesh soil. That coupled with effective cyclone