Five people died and four were injured in road accidents across the country in the last two days.

To save canals, rivers and waterbodies in Dhaka, fecal sludge management is very important and authorities should take immediate steps for its proper management, said speakers at a workshop yesterday.

Dumping of domestic waste just outside households in the open is ruining Chattogram’s city’s environment, but it would be unfair to blame residents of the port city alone.

Today is the 52nd death anniversary of Shaheed Sergeant Zahurul Haque.

The chief of Bangladesh army staff General Aziz Ahmed returned home on Friday morning, wrapping up his official trip to the United States of America.

Anglers and fisheries officials have reported a decrease in the number of fish caught from Barishal’s rivers, though for different reasons according to each party. As a result, supply of local fish to major fish markets has come down noticeably.

Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity yesterday demanded that the government give priority to public transport instead of “accident-prone” motorcycles.

Dhaka is not a big city, but it is not an organised city either. Old Dhaka was fondly called ‘Bayanno Bajar Teppanno Goli’r Shohor’ (a city of 52 bazaars and 53 lanes) by many, and many parts of new Dhaka can also be confusing to commute for the uninitiated.

The role Bangladesh Betar played during the country’s independence movement is written in golden letters, said Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud yesterday.

Shujon had found a way to turn his fascination with folding flat sheets into three-dimensional objects into a profession, becoming a professional

Police have arrested a youth on the charge of stabbing Hefajat-e-Islam’s central leader Jasim Uddin in Dhaka’s Lalbagh area on Tuesday.

Mujib Borsho Udjapon Committee of the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Husain, visited the old Central Jail at Nazimuddin Road to see the Bangabandhu Jail Memorial Museum yesterday.

Detectives yesterday claimed to have arrested six members of a criminal gang in connection with mugging Tk 35 lakh in Shahbagh area on February 7.

International photography festival Chobi Mela’s 11th edition kicked off at the capital’s Drik Path Bhaban on Friday.

Creating a network among canals and reviving water retention ponds are necessary to improve the capital’s drainage and waterlogging problems, said speakers at a programme yesterday.

Rapid Action Batallion (Rab) has claimed to have arrested 96 individuals on charges of taking drugs and gambling in a launch on the river Buriganga on Friday.

With cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore and writer Mushtaq Ahmed still behind bars for over nine months, a group of citizens, including teachers and activists, took to the street demanding that the government abolish the Digital Security Act (DSA).

President of the European Council Charles Michel has reaffirmed European Union’s continued support to Bangladesh for a lasting and peaceful solution to the Rohingya crisis.

Dhaka University authorities have recommended expulsion of seven students for their alleged involvement in admission test forgery and digital fraudulence.

Kumudini Welfare Trust, one of the most prestigious philanthropic organisations in Bangladesh, is set to lay the foundation stone for Kumudini International Institute of Medical Sciences and Cancer Research (KIIMS CaRe) on Sunday, at a ceremony to be held at Kumudini Complex, Narayanganj.