“My father left my mother when I was two,” says seven-year-old Shimu, unemotional, as though she were speaking of a routine matter.

The ongoing teachers' movement over the new pay scale is disrupting academic activities at public educational institutions, especially at university and college levels. Teachers yesterday staged fresh protests at several universities over the finance minister's remark on their movement, demanding that AMA Muhith withdraw his remark in 24 hours.

It is a hopeful sign that after three years and relentless pressure from activist groups, a Dhaka court has framed charges against 13 people, including the two owners of Tazreen, Delwar Hossain and Mahmuda Akhtar, for the death of at least 112 workers.

The last remaining canals in the capital are being choked to death with the authorities doing little to nothing to save them, making the city vulnerable to waterlogging even after a moderate rain.

For Annisul Huq and Sayeed Khokon, two mayors in the capital, a met office forecast that there will be no more heavy downpours in the current rainy season will be more than welcome.

Parul Akhtar now dreads walking Lane 17.

"When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer,” Sir Alexander Fleming would later say famously, “But I suppose that was exactly what I did.”

All mobile phone users will have to re-register their numbers by the end of this year as the government has decided to prepare a new subscribers database to check criminal activities through cellular networks.

The city dwellers will have to face a severe water and drainage crisis in near future unless the wholesale destruction of floodplains and wetlands ceases immediately, experts have warned.

A pir (a revered religious instructor) along with an attendant was brutally murdered by an unknown assailant inside his shrine in Bangla

The Bangladeshis in Libya are living in extreme uncertainty amid persisting violence in the war-torn country. Fearing for their life, many are returning home while some are embarking on risky boat journeys to Europe across the Mediterranean.

Although a committee of the government has already proposed raising fare of CNG-run auto-rickshaws by 37 percent, owners and drivers of the three-wheelers keep pressuring the authorities concerned for more increase.

Mahtab Islam was relieved to hear from doctors that they had successfully operated on his 55-year-old mother, Alesa Begum, yesterday morning.

Academic activities at different educational institutions in low-lying areas of Chittagong city are being hampered due to waterlogging, which was triggered by downpour and tidal water between Monday night and yesterday.

People around were just watching as the eight-year-old started to disappear into the canal in Nimtala of Chittagong but then he came in, jumped into the water and rescued the child.

A special tribunal on the much-hyped 1996 sharemarket scam sentenced two directors of a textile company to four years in prison yesterday for their involvement in price manipulation.

Another boy was beaten up after being tied to a tree. Again the reason was pretty much similar -- “punishment for theft”-- but unlike 13-year-old Rajon this boy was lucky to survive.

Residents of Chittagong city are still paying hiked up prices for vegetables as supply to the city's kitchen markets has not returned to

Aysha Habiba and Farzana Yesmin, first year students of Dhaka Mohanagar Mohila College, are forced to walk for about an hour every

The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (Berc) has increased power and gas price at a time when the public gas companies are making large profits and per unit power generation cost has gone down to a certain degree.