Both BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and Awami League MP Haji Salim are convicts. Both needed treatment abroad. Even though family members of Khaleda Zia have asked the law minister and government repeatedly to take her abroad for medical treatment, they were denied by the authorities. Yet Haji Salim, who's been convicted for 10 years over corruption, has returned home after receiving medical treatment in Bangkok, Thailand. There has been soaring criticism in the national media regarding the treatment by the government in regard to the two convicts.

Since he was five years old, Amir Hossain, the son of "Dholu Maker," has been familiar with machines.

Joint families in Bangladesh, like in most countries, have been split up. With that, family ties, love, and connection to parents appear to be waning.

Taslima Nasrin is an internationally known writer of Bangla literature. Because of her controversial writings, she received more criticism than appreciation. For her writings, she was banished from Bangladesh. But that did not diminish her spirit. She continues to write.

Do the people, who work in the private sectors of Bangladesh, know about the labour laws of the country? How much do they know?

During the two years of pandemic, almost everybody has been pushed towards economic crisis, many to extreme poverty.

Weavers from Tangail, Pabna and Sirajganj suffered immensely the past 2 years because of the pandemic. But they’ve been very busy during Ramadan this year. Meanwhile, the cost of production has increased due to the increase in the price of raw materials. But compared to that, business has been slow. However, the work of weaving sari of various designs is going on every day.

The absence of pandemic restrictions are causing more people to leave Dhaka this Eid compared to the last two years.

Kidnappers are devising new strategies. They are not just kidnapping people for ransom money as done before. Although some people were fortunate enough to be saved by law enforcers, not all kidnapping victims have been lucky.

The deadline for five projects was extended at the Ecnec meeting on April 19, and the cost of the projects jumped from Tk 3,105 crore to above Tk 6,000 crore.In our country, it appears that increasing the time limits for numerous government initiatives has become the practice.

After being closed for two years, the Hajj flights from Bangladesh will resume this year. However, various agencies and stakeholders are concerned that only Biman Bangladesh Airlines and Saudia, Saudi Arabia's national carrier, are permitted to operate the flights, causing potential prices to rise due to monopolisation.

Ratna, a community leader, and her teenage son were arrested for protesting the construction of a police station at Tetultala ground in Kalabagan. On April 24, Ratna went live on Facebook to show and protest Kalabagan police building a police station on Tetultala playground. For that Ratna and her underaged son were detained on charges of obstructing government work. They were released without charges around 13 hours later.

Those who assaulted and stabbed Nahid Mia in a student-businessman conflict in the capital's New Market-Dhaka College area on April 19, have been revealed. So far, all of the suspects of the murder have been identified as Dhaka College students involved in Chhatra League politics.

Today is the 9th anniversary of the Rana Plaza tragedy. On 24th April, 2013 a nine-storied building in Savar collapsed, what was termed as one of the worst tragedies in any given industry in the country, and probably in the world -- claiming lives of at least 1,138 individuals and injuring additional 2,438 people.

The trial run for the first metro rail of the country is ongoing. Spanning about 20 kilometres, the metro rail will have 16 stations. Among them, Uttara North station is almost completed. What amenities will these stations have for passengers? How do the stations look from the inside?

With the advent of technology, the concept of privacy has also changed. Mobile phones are not only communication devices anymore. Myriad personal, confidential information stored in this small device.

On April 18, another haor, Huramandira, in Sunamganj was inundated, flooding vast farmlands. Within just this month, thousands of hectares of farmlands have been flooded in Sunamganj and adjacent haor areas.

How will the Dhaka Metro Rail services ensure safety? In an event of emergency, how will the passengers notify the rail operator?

On April 17, 2022 morning, residents of Gaibandha Sadar upazila's Tinmail witnessed a very strange incident.

Haji Shariatullah was a prominent leader of the Faraizi movement. He was also a social activist and Islamic scholar of the then Bengal.