Mohammad Al-Masum Molla

Just about the size of Cumilla town, the island of Bhasan Char in Nokhali’s Hatiya sub-district has four layers of protection from natural disasters like cyclone.

Around 80 percent of the Covid-19 patients who died had comorbidity, finds a government study.

A Human Rights Watch report, scheduled to be published today, blamed lack of accountability in enforcing laws and systemic flaws for Bangladesh’s failure to protect women who have suffered violence.

The payment disbursed but the work not done -- this appears to have become a common practice at the IEM unit of DGFP.

Air pollution led to 1,73,500 deaths in Bangladesh last year, says a global report as experts find the country’s air becoming increasingly poisonous in the absence of effective measures to control the release of pollutants.

Cattle rearing is thriving as an important economic activity in Bhasan Char, an off-shore island where the government wants to relocate one lakh Rohingyas from different refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.

When one thinks of a char, the idea of swaths of land -- barren or cultivable -- comes to the mind. Bhasan Char, a remote island in Hatiya, however, is completely different.

House help Salma Khatun and her rickshaw-puller husband Forkan Ali saved their hard-earned money for the future of their two daughters.

Sirajul Haque Khan cannot recall the last time someone came to check the gas connection to his building.

Bangladeshi company Globe Biotech will seek government approval to start clinical trials of its Covid-19 vaccine this month, having already completed successful animal trials in the pre-clinical stage.

Directors general came and went, but the power and influence that the health directorate driver gained stayed.

An intra-party conflict over leadership may cause a split in Gonoforum as a group of party leaders are going to hold an extended meeting in Dhaka tomorrow.

When nations around the globe are taking cost-saving measures to tackle the economic fallout of Covid-19 pandemic, Bangladesh has increased travel expenses for ministers, state ministers and deputy ministers by Tk 93 lakh.

Chilly or not, the coming winter is set to be an ominous one.

The Indian government is likely to grant its authorities a special permission to export 25,000 tonnes of onion to Bangladesh.

The Indian government is likely to grant its authorities a special permission to export 25,000 tonnes of onion to Bangladesh.

The government’s Covid-19 testing expansion policy has been caught up in a bureaucratic red tape, leaving many suspected coronavirus patients dependent on expensive and time-consuming RT-PCR testing for diagnosis of the disease.

At least nine Covid-19 patients have come to Bangladesh over the past month from different Middle East countries by hiding their medical certificates on board.

Six leakages in gas pipeline and around 17 percent of the mosque air filled with methane gas caused the blast in Narayanganj, finds the probe of fire service and civil defence.

Officials found two holes in an underground gas pipe adjacent to the Narayanganj mosque and expert teams were examining a second pipe last night about six feet under its stairwell.