Life in the capital and elsewhere in the country was in an utter shambles yesterday due to incessant rain for the last four days. Thirteen more deaths in rain-induced incidents were reported in Cox's Bazar yesterday, raising the toll to 21 in the coastal district in the past couple of days. Two others were killed in Bandarban on Thursday. Flash floods inundated more areas, leaving several thousand people marooned in Narayanganj and Chandpur.

A 10-year-boy Sourov Sikder, only son of Govinda Chandra Sikder of Madaripur, has been undergoing treatment for cancer at

But life has more than one dimension where people's ideology, belief, musical performance, livelihood strategies, etc. are interconnected and it is

At least 10 people were killed yesterday in incidents triggered by unrelenting monsoon rain that continued to disrupt routine life across the country.

Terrorists attacked sites in France, Tunisia and Kuwait yesterday, leaving a bloody toll on three continents and prompting new concerns

BGB Nayek Abdur Razzak “was gnawed by a member of Myanmar BGP” in the scuffle while being abducted on June 17, the BGP delegation claimed at the flag meeting over his return yesterday.

More oil spilled from the train wagons that fell into a canal in Chittagong a week ago, threatening the ecosystem in and around the Karnaphuli river.

The government has taken up a Tk 1,381 crore project to protect four cities, including Dhaka, from earthquakes. About 96 percent of the money would be from the World Bank.

The Buet has been closed for an indefinite period after some unruly students vandalised its academic buildings, demanding postponement of term final exams.

After the government to government (G2G) system failed to live up to the Bangladeshi migrant workers' expectation, Malaysia under a new mechanism has agreed to recruit

The food ministry yesterday said it had tested the samples of wheat imported from Brazil and did not find the grain “rotten” or “unfit for human consumption”.

Almost a week after the abduction of BGB Nayek Abdur Razzak, Myanmar has agreed to hold a flag meeting in a day or two over his

Myanmar's border force yesterday said it will release BGB Nayek Abdur Razzak if Bangladesh takes in 550 boat people found adrift at

We should not allow ourselves to be misled by a vested group, in the name of religion, and let people exploit our religious sentiments for narrow political ends.

As part of its “Southern Silk Route” China plans to establish a high speed railway link between Kunming and Kolkata through Dhaka and Chittagong, according to reports

One more college student was killed in a road accident in Chittagong city yesterday, five days after two others were killed.

The High Court yesterday cleared the way for trial proceedings to resume in the Niko corruption case against Khaleda Zia.

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday issued an arrest warrant for Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Zafrullah Chowdhury for non-payment of a fine it had imposed on him for contempt of court.

Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk), with the prime and public works ministers' consent, will implement two more land development schemes to provide lawmakers and

A mobile court of Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) pulled down 36 illegal billboards and fined two billboard owners Tk 5,000 each in