Because of uninterrupted water supply and cost advantage over diesel-based pumps, irrigation using solar power is becoming more and more popular among farmers. Since 2012, 358 solar-based irrigation pumps, for example, have been installed to water crops.

We are constrained to say that in legislating the Foreign Donations Regulation Bill – 2016 the government has used its legislative power to enact laws to prevent public scrutiny of its performance as well as of other constitutional bodies. This will severely curtail the basic right of the citizens, who have elected their representatives to the parliament, to ventilate their views and opinions on these bodies.

When the inhabitants of the char areas in Lalmonirhat's Kaliganj upazila first heard that under the Rupkalpo 2021

A report by Child Rights Advocacy Coalition, a platform of 10 NGOs has revealed some chilling data – around 1,095 children were killed over the last four years.

Hilsa occupies a unique position in the culinary of Bangladesh, a delicacy that families eagerly await.

The five-day long Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, begins with enthusiasm and due religious fervour through the incarnation (Bodhon) of the goddess Durga at temples across the country.

Five upazilas in Paira union falling under Jessore district remain in various stages of submersion as the 21 sluice gates in Bhabodaha have remained inoperable for many years. Hence, a serious downpour recently closed over 200 schools and students suffer the consequences.

In a classic example of how mismanagement can hijack the benefits of a well-intentioned government programme, subsidised rice meant for the ultra poor is ending up in the market in four districts due to corruption by officials, dealers and local influential people.

At least 10,000 workers are passing hard days and the government is deprived of huge revenue as coal import through land customs

We have in the past few weeks editorialised what seems to be becoming a trend in many public and private medical institutions, the

As we write this editorial, a young and promising woman is desperately fighting for her life with doctors seeing minimal chances of her

The death toll in the building collapse in Rangamati on Tuesday rose to five as the body of a boy was recovered from the lake yesterday.

Save the River committee in Natore held a boat march in Chalan Beel area from Gurudaspur to Bagatipara upazilas in the district yesterday.

Disorder rules on the waterways of the country because according to the department of shipping 10,000 registered marine vessels

It is indeed heartening to note that the number of poor in the country has reduced to 12.9 percent. There is no denying that the social

A two-day programme titled “Panir Galpo” (tale of water) to raise awareness about diarrhoea kicked off in Kushtia town yesterday.

With only a few days before the Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindus, shopping is gaining momentum in

There can be no gift of friendship truer than the sharing of knowledge. At the Uttar Bangla College in Kakina village of Lalmonirhat's

Keraniganj jail, now the central prison after Dhaka Central Jail was shifted there three months ago, may be facing a major security loophole with incomplete fencing that is causing serious security concerns.

Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD-Marx) held a protest meeting at the district Shaheed Minar yesterday as part of their three-day