The country witnessed a sharp rise in road crashes and fatalities last year, indicating that the road safety situation, which came to the fore yet again recently, deteriorated further, said two organisations.

They’re gone, before they could even settle in.

We are a perpetually curious group. Like members of secret societies of the Middle Ages, we quickly recognize each other.

The Maheshwarpasha Art School was established in 1904 by artist Shashibhushan Pal, the first of its kind for the East Bengal region.

Different religious and ethnic community leaders yesterday demanded that the government create a separate ministry and national commission for the country’s minority communities.

Shakrain -- a festival most awaited in the neighbourhoods of the old town. Only a week is left, but the excitement is in the air of the “Puran Dhaka” alleys.

The Mayur, one of the main freshwater rivers of Khulna, is at death throes due to continuous encroachment and unchecked pollution.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has arrested a man on charge of raping a 10-year-old girl in Chattogram city’s Jalalabad area.

Patients of Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) are gravely worried about whether they would be able to avail of dialysis service from next week.

The commercial beekeepers are now hard at work to collect honey from flowers at mustard fields of different regions in Tangail district.

Although Bangladesh has one of the highest under-five drowning rates in the world, and drowning remains the dominant reason for child deaths in the country, a recent media monitoring report revealed that 53 percent of drowning deaths go unreported.

Md Tufan Sarkar, a suspended Sramik League leader of Bogura, who came to the limelight after allegedly raping a college girl and shaving heads of the victim and her mother in July, 2017, got bail yesterday in a money laundering case.

The project to upgrade Hatirjheel-Amulia-Demra highway into a four-lane expressway is finally moving forward. The planned thoroughfare will work as an alternative gateway to Dhaka’s centre from Chattogram and Sylhet, and help reduce traffic congestion.

Dr Shamsuddoha Khandokar has been elected chairman of the board of trustees at Eastern University (EU), said a press release.

What are we even here for anyway?

Dhaka University (DU) authorities yesterday urged students to prepare their national ID cards immediately, if they do not have one, to get Covid-19 vaccine.

Bangladesh has appointed Md Delwar Hossain, director general of Myanmar wing at the foreign ministry, as the next ambassador to South Korea.

Switzerland has committed an additional 9.8 million Swiss Francs (Tk 90 crore) to scale up its support for an effective community-based response as Covid-19 cases are again on the rise in Bangladesh.

BNP yesterday said there is no reason for its Chairperson Khaleda Zia to seek clemency from the president since she did not commit any crime.

Azim Uddin Ahmed, one of the founding members of North South University (NSU), has been unanimously elected as the Chairperson of Board of Trustees of the university for the fourth time.