About 10 patients were still in the queue, each screaming for emergency care as the clock struck 12:30am on Saturday at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.

Kudos, young comrades, for making the impossible possible – for making the government rethink its position at a time when our policymakers often stubbornly stick to their guns, no matter how foolhardy their decisions. Kudos to you for making us believe,

All the ministries and divisions of the government will have to sign annual performance agreements (APAs) with their subordinate departments and organisations by October 15 to ensure better public service and more accountability, said cabinet division sources.

Around 10:00am yesterday, Golam Kibria and his family started their journey to Tangail from the Mohakhali bus terminal in the capital.

Dhaka city is seeing a rapid rise in the incidence of dengue, a mosquito-borne viral infection that can be fatal at times. Last month, 727 dengue cases were reported in the capital and elsewhere. The number was 558 in the first 20 days of this month, according to the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).

Academic activities in public schools, colleges and universities are being badly affected as teachers continue their protest over the new pay scale, but the government has yet to take any visible measure to diffuse the unrest.

This Eid-ul-Azha, there will be 595 designated spots in the city to sacrifice animals for the first time. The two city corporations, Dhaka North and Dhaka South, have taken this measure to speed up the management of waste, blood and leftovers disposal after the slaughters.

The time of power outages has almost doubled in Chittagong city over the last one week, as three units of two electricity plants went out of operation for want of gas.

Most of the tickets were “sold out” within a few hours after the counters opened at Kamalapur Railway Station yesterday, the second day of advance train ticket sale.

With the Eid-ul-Azha only a week away, traders are hopeful of making a good profit from sales of sacrificial animals this year. Prices of cattle have gone up in recent months after the BJP government in India choked the illegal supply channels to Bangladesh.

A patient with spinal cord injury got hurt when pickets vandalised the vehicle he was in during yesterday's strike called by Chittagong Metropolitan CNG-run Auto-rickshaw Chalok Malik Oikya Parishad, as he was unable to move without anyone's help.

The latest High Court verdict scrapping a law that had indemnified all actions including killing in the Operation Clean Heart by joint forces 12 years ago is a welcome boost for people's right to life and right to protection of law.

It was indeed a different street agitation, something we have rarely seen.

The High Court yesterday scrapped a law that had legitimised all actions under a controversial criminal hunt called Operation Clean Heart in 2003.

A chunk of tickets for different modes of transport is kept aside for VIPs ahead of Eid every year, forcing ordinary people to go through

Successes are many. But Bangladesh still struggles in its fight against tobacco with at least 156 people dying and another 1,095 becoming disabled due to smoking in the country every day. Tax increase and other government interventions to cut tobacco consumption seem fruitless, as production, export, import and consumption of cigarette and smokeless tobacco are on the rise.

So much of birdwatching depends on luck.

Bangladeshi scientists have developed four transgenic rice varieties capable of production in high soil salinity, far better than the ones now available in the market that were derived from conventional breeding.

The Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) recently recovered Tantibazar Park, which had been under the occupation of grabbers for almost a decade. But the DSCC authorities are yet to take any move to renovate it. Once the 0.33 acre park under ward-71 (old) had slides, swings, and seesaws inside it -- something rarely seen in today’s Dhaka packed with traffic and concrete buildings.

Children who witness violence are more likely to mimic that act in situations they deem appropriate as violence becomes normalised. The same principle applies to other issues: corruption, murder, lying, ill-treatment of people.