Almost all parts of the neem tree, also known as Azadirachta indica, have medicinal properties and have been used in traditional home remedies for centuries.

Although the pressure to become a doctor or an engineer is gradually dissipating, the two professions still rank on the top among the youths, found a first-of-its-kind study by the government.

Police yesterday recovered the bodies of three people in Narayanganj’s Araihazar.

Nearly 54 percent of the non-government organisations involved in relief programmes during the pandemic faced challenges in preparing a list of beneficiaries, found Transparency International Bangladesh.

The president should use his “moral authority” to send ailing BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia abroad for better treatment and take measures to enact a law in line with the constitution on the next Election Commission’s formation, Bangladesh Kalyan Party proposed while holding dialogue yesterday.

The government has decided to use the Covid-19 vaccine of Moderna as a booster dose instead of Pfizer jabs.

The efforts to build the Bangladesh Army as a world-class force through realistic and up-to-date training will continue, said Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed yesterday.

Negative dope test reports from government-affiliated hospitals or laboratories would be mandatory to get or renew professional driving licences from January 30 this year.

The spread of the Omicron variant is pushing Covid towards being an endemic disease that humanity can live with, although it remains a pandemic for now, the EU’s drug watchdog said.

Nine members of an organ trafficking gang were sent to jail by a court in Joypurhat yesterday following their arrest by Rab from the district’s Kalai upazila on Tuesday night, said law enforcement officials.

A Qawwali performance at TSC on Dhaka University campus yesterday was foiled allegedly by Bangladesh Chhatra League activists.

Two reports of The Daily Star made it to The Global Investigative Journalism Network’s top 10 “Best Investigative Stories in 2021” from Bangladesh.

An Indian student of Jashore Ad-din Sakina Medical College and Hospital was found dead in a dormitory bathroom of the college yesterday.

At a dialogue with President Abdul Hamid, National People’s Party yesterday suggested an “election-time” government, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, comprising all registered pro-liberation political parties.

A Cox’s Bazar court is set to deliver the verdict today in the sensational Maj Sinha murder case.  

The government has taken initiatives to scrap the passports of those engaged in anti-state activities and making anti-Bangladesh comments while living abroad.

The government has declared 1,743sqkm of the Bay of Bengal, including St Martin’s Island in Cox’s Bazar, a marine protected area.

Transport leaders are at it once again: throwing their weight to get the government to take a decision that serves their interests.

Dhaka plans to strengthen its engagement with Washington to smoothen the strained relationship following the US measures taken to keep Bangladesh under scrutiny as far as democracy and human rights are concerned.

A youth was run over and killed by a train while he was playing games on his mobile phone sitting on the rail line in Thatmari Bridge area of Kurigram’s Rajarhat upazila on Tuesday night.