Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (July 23, 2022) asked the public servants to devote themselves to the welfare of the people who pay taxes for their salaries, comforts and luxuries.

If you are planning a vacation or having a break from work, there is hardly a destination better than Cox’s Bazar.

The health directorate yesterday reported just one death from Covid-19, down from eight the previous day.

Perhaps his most significant occupation was one as a diarist who took it upon himself to document his life as he moved through some of the most interesting scenes of human history.

Sudden erosion by the Jamuna river has devoured several homesteads and vast farmlands within a few hours at Mazzan village in Sirajganj’s Shahzadpur upazila last week, creating panic among the villagers.

People going to their hometowns from Dhaka to spend Eid suffered immensely due to shortage of buses, long tailbacks on the highways and delayed trains.

Only 9.87 percent students passed in Dhaka University’s Kha Unit admission test for the academic session of 2021-22.

Borrowing from the title of the second volume of Winston Churchill’s six-part history of the Second World War, I would like to term the completion of the Padma Bridge as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s “finest hour”.

A 12-year-old boy was killed in a landslide triggered by heavy rain in Chattogram city’s Sholoshahar early yesterday.

Thousands of Rohingyas yesterday held a rally in Ukhia of Cox’s Bazar -- to tell the world that they want to go back to their homeland Myanmar, marking World Refugee Day.

As the country’s Covid-19 positivity rate yesterday stood at 5.76 percent -- the highest since February 22, Health Minister Zahid Maleque urged people to take the vaccine booster shots.

Fifteen people were killed and 37 injured yesterday when a bus and a truck collided on a South African highway near the capital Pretoria, an emergency services spokesman told AFP.

Taking into account the Ukraine war, the World Bank reduced Bangladesh’s economic growth projection to 6.7 percent for the next fiscal year from its January forecast of 6.9 percent.

For many young people facing unemployment, becoming a firefighter is a dream.

Ukrainian and Russian troops fought street-by-street to win control of the industrial city of Severodonetsk yesterday in the pivotal battle of the Kremlin’s eastern Ukraine offensive.

You are vulnerable to toxic air even when you stay home. 

Abdur Rob Siddiqui has been adjudged as the best school teacher in Rajshahi division for a third time.

Russian forces were assaulting the Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk yesterday after saying they had captured the nearby rail hub of Lyman as Moscow pressed its offensive in the eastern Donbas.

Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or any territorial concessions to Moscow while Russia intensified its attack in the east and south and stopped sending gas to Finland in its latest response to Western sanctions.

Instructing all international airports and land ports to strengthen monkeypox screening, health officials yesterday asked those suffering from fever and rash to self-isolate and contact nearby public hospitals for tests.