In Arshad Hasan’s 100 square feet apartment at Mirpur section-11’s Bihari camp, there’s barely enough room for his family of four.

Barishal has been experiencing unprecedented waterlogging for over a week due to tidal surge from the river Kirtankhola, causing immense suffering to city-dwellers.

With no visitors interfering, the animals of Chattogram zoo have spent a blissful summer this year, thanks to the pandemic. At least 50 offspring of different animals were born at the zoo in the past two months, which includes tiger cubs, deer fawns, and peacocks.

Benvenuto Cellini from the Italian Renaissance was an artist and a sculptor, but he is remembered for his autobiography.

Today is the 20th death anniversary of Rasel Bhuiyan, an industrialist and founder of Russel Park, says a press release.

Ustad Sunil Kumar Dhar, one of the most prominent classical music maestros of the country died of a heart attack at a city hospital Thursday. He was 87.

Two people were killed and two others injured in separate road accidents in Mymensingh yesterday morning. The accidents took place in Bhaluka and Muktagachha upazilas.

A schoolgirl was injured by a stray bullet in Mistripara area of Khulna yesterday.

Police recovered bodies of a couple from a house in Dhaka’s Nakhalpara area yesterday morning.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) said they arrested 15 Nigerians from Dhaka’s Pallabi area for their alleged involvement in embezzling money from people using a fake Facebook ID.

A Cox's Bazar court today placed former officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das and two other accused, in a case filed over killing of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan, on a fresh three-day remand.

The High Court yesterday declared the election of Pubali Bank Limited’s board of directors -- held on July 30 during its 37th annual general meeting (AGM) -- illegal.

Officials of Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) claim to have arrested a top member of Neo-JMB from Dhaka’s East-Bashabo area under Sabujbagh Police Station.

A house help allegedly looted a house in Dhaka’s South Rajarbagh area after poisoning six members of the family.

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the High Court orders that stayed the trial proceedings against six BNP leaders including its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in nine separate vandalism and arson cases filed in 2015.

It is an unusual scene for port city dwellers to see a city administrator scooter through the city, instead of trveling in a motorcades with police protocol.

Outgoing Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Riva Ganguly Das yesterday proposed restoration of air connectivity with Bangladesh.

The pandemic has critically impacted indigenous people living in plains, and pushed around 62 percent of them below extreme poverty line, said Indigenous People’s Development Services (IPDS) at a webinar yesterday.

For at least 463 million children whose schools closed due to Covid-19, “there was no such thing as remote learning,” the head of the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) said yesterday.

Youth’s involvement in higher and important policymaking is still unsatisfactory, although they share a large part of the country’s population, speakers said during an online discussion yesterday.