Mohammad Al-Masum Molla

On the last day of polls campaign, mayor candidates of both the Awami League and the BNP yesterday accused each other of attempting to harm the election atmosphere.

Riding on a rented bus, BNP-nominated mayoral candidate for Dhaka North City Corporation Tabith Awal arrived in Karail Slum area to start his campaign around 10:30am yesterday.

The election manifestos of the two BNP mayor candidates are likely to highlight the introduction of an “effective city government” to build a modern and liveable Dhaka city.

Bangladesh performs very poorly in terms of providing social protection to its people, says a global report that sheds light on issues relating to the absence of minimum income benefits and the low quality of social safety schemes in the country.

Tabith Awal, BNP’s mayoral candidate for the DNCC polls, says if elected, he will work for a facelift of the capital and give his best to improve the city’s environment and air quality.

As a farmer’s wife in a remote village of Lalmonirhat, Aklima Begum’s life was never easy. She and her husband used to grow rice in her 90-decimal land in Ramdash village in the district. With the crop, they could hardly meet the expenditures of her seven-member family.

A Bangladeshi company is producing biodegradable packaging from an unlikely source material -- corn or maze -- with the aim of offering a suitable alternative to polythene bags, which survive in soil for several hundred years and leave devastating impacts on the environment.

Plastic was invented to make daily life easy. But over the time it has become a big threat to human and environment. BD Clean, a youth organisation, is working on cleaning plastic wastes in different cities of the country and making people aware about it.

In 1998, the authorities of National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital (NICRH) bought an X-ray machine imported from Germany.

More than 12 years ago, the National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital (NICRH) authorities had purchased eight high-end ventilator machines for its Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Most of the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation’s 74 industrial estates across the country are in dire straits, with dilapidated roads and drainage, and unreliable or no gas and power supply plaguing them.

The year has been full of frustration for the BNP as it neither could reorganise itself after being defeated in last year’s general election nor wage protests to free its Chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail.

Gone are the days when cooking meals twice a day used to take a toll on Nasrin Akter.

The market of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is facing a bizarre dilemma.

Both the ruling Awami League and the BNP were struggling to pick councillor candidates for the January 30 Dhaka north and south city corporation elections after multiple aspirants collected nomination forms for each post.

Keeping in mind the party’s future leadership, the BNP wants to bank on young faces for the Dhaka north and south city elections scheduled to be held on January 30.

Some personalities are so much larger than life that boiling down their accomplishments to a few words is an almost impossible task. Sir Fazle Hasan Abed is one such person.

Growing up, Mofazzal Hossain worked as a helper at his father’s small radio repair shop in a market in Mymensingh town. He quickly fostered a fascination for the device, learning the ins and outs of the trade.

The tin shack was almost hidden behind a bush. A thick canopy of mango and coconut trees kept it under a blissful shade. Behind its backyard was a wide canal that separated it from the rest of the village.

If you want to buy skin-whitening cream online, especially those advertised to have been imported, think twice.