The government ban on three-wheelers and slow-moving vehicles on highways effective from yesterday brought enormous sufferings on people as transport owners and drivers put barricades at different points protesting the ban. Parts of Dhaka-Chittagong, Dhaka-Khulna, Dhaka-Sylhet, Dhaka-Barisal, Dhaka-Tangail and Dhaka-Mymensingh highways were blocked by agitated transport workers, causing tailbacks on both sides of the roads.

Every day long queues are seen in front of the seven toilets for 6,000 female students at Dhaka University's Arts Building, revealing an appalling condition of its sanitation facilities.

Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim yesterday asked the promoted doctors to remain prepared to work at district-level.

Workers of Chandpur Tea Garden in Habiganj yesterday threatened that they would rather die than give up their ancestral land chosen

“If you are brave, then take away the land-grabbers' land. Only then we will accept that this is a brave state.”

Traffic gridlock on airport road in Uttara area became acute due to heavy rain and pressure of the Dhaka-bound vehicles from different adjoining districts.

After two consecutive dry monsoons, the country this year experiences 25 percent more rainfall than usual, hampering daily life and

A Dubai-Sylhet flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines narrowly escaped an accident after a bird ended up inside the plane's engine during

Hundreds of drivers and workers of truck, mini-truck, covered-van and tank-lorry yesterday formed a human chain protesting the

State Minister for Fisheries and Animal Resources Narayan Chandra Chanda asked the field level officials concerned and other dairy and

Prestigious publishing house in Japan, The Ashahi Shoten Publishers, has published “The Unfinished Memoirs” of Father of the Nation

Teachers sometimes fail to deliver English lessons in the expected manner due to a lack of good techniques and experience, said

Hundreds of three-wheeler auto-rickshaw drivers and locals who use non-motorised transports blocked for the second time in eight

For the low-lying parts of Chittagong waterlogging is a serious problem especially during the monsoon, but in the city's Agrabad CDA

The events of March 24, 2011 are still vivid in Shahjahan Sheikh's mind.

Two more lives perished, around two lakh people were marooned and hundreds of houses damaged as the weakened tropical storm

Chittagong University yesterday announced a budget of Tk 175.60 crore for the fiscal year 2015-16 with low allocation for research and

Prof Ajay Roy yesterday said the dream of fundamentalists trying to turn Bangladesh into an “Islamic state” by killing free thinkers in the

Just three months after Salma Begum was married off to Khalil, she was set on fire by her husband when his demands for a substantial

A farmer died after being struck by lightning at Tarakandi village in Elangi union of Dhunat upazila of Bogra on Thursday.