We are disappointed by the stay order on the mayoral by-polls necessitated by the untimely death of Mayor Annis. There is much work that needs to be done in Dhaka City, and we wonder if the Court needs three months to adjudicate a case like this.

We welcome the recent agreement between Bangladesh and Myanmar for the repatriation of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. However, there is ample ground for scepticism regarding the real concerns of the Rohingyas fully addressed by Myanmar.

The national parliament passed the controversial Banking Companies (Amendment) Act 2017 despite protests from a section of law makers.

To say that the clash between supporters of Narayanganj city Mayor Selina Hayat Ivy and those of local Awami League lawmaker Shamim Osman on Tuesday afternoon in Narayanganj city's Chashara is condemnable, would be an understatement.

The finance minister has made a very frank admission about government officials taking bribe to award contract to a foreign company for expansion of the Dhaka-Sylhet 4-lane Project.

The country sources nearly half (46 percent) of its cotton from abroad. Bales of cotton are used by local yarn makers to produce the thread used by apparel exporters.

The state of medical care in Chittagong is appalling. A number of individuals described to The Daily Star how local diagnosis centres provided them with results that were found to be at variance with results of tests in different labs.

The finance and the commerce minister have handed down very harsh criticisms to the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) for its report on the state of our economy of the past year.

The figure is horrendous and unbelievable and speaks volumes about the woeful disjoint between the law enforcers and the legal process that should result in a good charge sheet and ensure conviction and not result in bail for the arrested terrorists.

We are appalled to learn that there are around 40,000 orphans among the three lakh children in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.

The report that more than a hundred female migrant workers are returning from Saudi Arabia after having endured physical and sexual assault by their employers is hardly surprising.

The dangerous proliferation of illegal brick kilns in rural areas of Bangladesh is having a two-fold damaging effect.

One of the biggest problems facing the stranded Rohingya populace and the locals in Cox's Bazaar is malnutrition.

It is good to see that an Indonesian technique known as "sorjan" cropping has long been successfully implemented in the marshlands of Nazripur upazila in Pirojpur.

We simply cannot comprehend how, on Wednesday, factions of Tabligh Jamaat were allowed to immobilise a busy section of the capital city—and thus in effect its entirety—for hours on end, including the country's biggest airport.

At last, Myanmar army has admitted to killing 10 Rohingyas in a massacre at Inn Din village, Rakhine. But it does not paint the actual picture whatsoever.

As per a report published in this paper on January 9, four convicted killers, one of them given death sentence, for a murder committed in 2012, never served their sentences and are said to be roaming freely in Malaysia.

A picture of Sylhet's Surma River published in this daily on Tuesday is proof that despite all the hue and cry over encroachment of our rivers by activists and the media, nothing has changed.

According to a report published by Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF), an average of 28 children are murdered and 49 raped in the country every month.

We take note of two comments made by the president and the prime minister in their address marking the inauguration of Police Week-2018.