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.

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

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.

We have been covering this issue for some time now in this newspaper. Hence when it comes to light that 13 mass killing grounds of Pakistani occupation army during the war of liberation in 1971 are lying in neglect we take great offence.

We do not need studies to tell us that indiscriminate, unplanned urbanisation, along with encroachment of land and water bodies, have polluted the air and water making our urban areas, unlivable.

We find it appalling that there can be such blatant disregard for human life. In a harrowing image published in The Daily Star yesterday, the failure to ensure workers' safety was shamefully evident. In the photograph, a worker of a power distribution company was seen to be working without any safety gear, precariously leaning against a bamboo plant against power cables.

We find it shocking and ironic that on International Human Rights Day yesterday, this paper has reported a total of the 154 incidents of enforced disappearances.

Despite widespread international condemnation and an agreement between Myanmar and Bangladesh for Myanmar to stop the violence against its minorities, and to take back its nationals who have sought shelter in Bangladesh, nothing has changed as yet.