Mokammel Shuvo

With sacks of paddy piled on both sides of the road at Barmi Bazar in Gazipur, farmers were waiting under the scorching sun to sell their produce at a fair price.

Services at Narail Sadar Hospital have improved to some extent over the last one week with the attending doctors making sure that no one is absent there.

Recently, Sisnabi Mondol, a farmer in Dinajpur's Chirirbandar upazila, has sold his Aman paddy at Tk 600 per maund, whereas the rate was Tk 720 when the harvest season began in December.

Exhausted Rohingyas walking with loads of firewood on their heads used to be a common sight around the refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, raising concerns about the long-term impact on the forest.

The much-awaited launch of the Rohingya repatriation was cancelled at the last moment yesterday as the refugees refused to return to Rakhine for fear of fresh persecution.

The first batch of Rohingyas is all set to be sent back to Myanmar today amid reports that many of the refugees listed for return are hiding in fear of forcible repatriation.

With early rains falling on the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar, the fear of natural calamities has heightened among the refugees living in tiny shanties made of bamboo poles and tarpaulin in the district's Ukhia and Teknaf.

The historic Jessore Road, immortalised in Allen Ginsberg's poem “September on Jessore Road”, is steadily losing the essence of its legacy due to a corrupt chain of unbridled tree-felling.

It was around eleven in the morning.

Although there is sufficient government land on both sides of the historical Jessore Road for its expansion, the local authorities seem to be hell-bent on doing the expansion by felling more than 2,300 trees, a several hundred of them nearly two centuries old.

Seeing the little cormorants flying in the sky in their thousands and feeding their chicks in their little nests on treetops can be a

They consider Tata engines grossly underrated. If a “Tata human haulier” is capable of carrying double the passenger-load than what they usually do, then why not turn them into minibuses? All it needs is a little improvisation; ingenious indeed! While not lawful, this is an aspect that hardly matters as far as Dhaka streets and their diverse array of public transports are concerned.

Keeping its head above the water, a water monitor, locally known as gui shap, swam to the bank of Khashnagar Dighi (lake) near the

Apart from the beautiful sandy beach that makes Kuakata one of the top tourist destinations, it has many other things to offer.

The first light of Mongol Shobhajatra, the colourful procession at the dawn of Pahela Baishakh, illuminated Jessore in 1985. Charupite

A 90-yard stretch of a road, in the capital's Shyamoli, has been illegally made off-limits to all types of vehicle.

The boy looks as healthy, energetic and cheerful as most children at 7. But before he was born, his mother kept her fingers crossed that her HIV would not pass on to the child.

The speeding car at which Uttara police shot live rounds during a chase on Monday afternoon was being driven by an underage boy.

Construction of the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery is expected to begin by December, aiming to produce skilled healthcare providers, including surgeons, and provide state of the art facilities and proper treatment to around six lakh patients a year.

What could be more comforting for Nazma Khatun than being finally reunited with her baby girl Suraiya who was separated from her at birth?