The Roads and Highways Department is going to establish a dedicated Road Operation Unit (ROU) to manage and monitor the Joydebpur-Rangpur highway efficiently.

Dhaka has been experiencing huge traffic congestion for the last few weeks. What are the causes behind it? Is there a solution to this problem? In today's episode of Public Speaks.

Despite the less than adequate quality of treatment, most people in our country depend on government hospitals for treatment. Being an overpopulated country, Bangladesh still lacks enough government hospitals to serve all its people. Criminal gangs posing as brokers are taking the opportunity of such circumstances. While seeking treatment, ordinary people are falling into the traps of these brokers.

After two years of Covid-19 pandemic related restrictions, the welcoming ceremony of Bangla New Year began this morning (April 14) with numerous shades and colours.

Shafiqul Islam, a Gaibandha engineer, has been working to develop an electric version of the traditional rice grinding tool "Dheki".

Prof Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq of the Bangla department of Dhaka University was a colleague of Prof Humayun Azad. He spoke to The Daily Star about his late friend. He also spoke about how a universal democratic system could widen the path to free-thinking.

The dedicated service lanes and bus bay or bus stop projects amounted to around Tk 700 crore, and the construction work at various bus stands and market locations from Gabtoli to Paturia Ghat is near completion. However, most bus stops and market areas along the Dhaka-Nabinagar route do not use these separate lanes for the stoppage. As a result, the highway is completely packed all the time.

Hridoy Chandra Mandal, a teacher of Munshiganj Sadar Upazila's Binodpur Ramkumar High School, has been released on bail.

Covid-19 vaccination drive in Bangladesh is for the most part a success story. According to WHO, as of April 6, 75.25% of the population have received the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine and 67.37% the second dose, and 9.10% have already received the third booster dose.

Hriday Mondal is a teacher at Binodpur Ram Kumar High School. For the past 22 years he’s been teaching maths and science here. But now the education system has him in jail. The school’s headmaster Alauddin Ahmed mentioned that on March 20 students were asking Hriday general questions but the next day 10 to 12 had gone to him and brought allegations of blasphemy against the science teacher. The headmaster had temporarily suspended Hriday over the allegations.

Pilots of various local and foreign airlines have complained that people are quite often and frequently targeting lasers on planes during landing or takeoffs at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. Pilots are saying there could be a major accident due to these laser beams. Who are pointing these lasers on aeroplanes? What steps can be taken by the authorities to stop the laser beam menace?

The Maha Ashtami festival or Basanti Puja has been organised along the Brahmaputra river in Narayanganj's Langalband, Kaliganga river in Manikganj and Rishal Babuganj, after 2 years. The area was kept under heavy surveillance by the administration during the festival.

Science teacher Hridoy Chandra Mondal was arrested on March 22 for hurting religious sentiments. But at this point, can this incident be set aside as merely an isolated event, or is it not an oozing example of a rotting society and the government caving in to fanaticism? Why were the students behaving in such a manner? Who recorded the audio? And why does the plaintiff himself not know how he was brought into this case? But the question that towers above all, what does this incident and its ongoing aftermath signify? Are we as a society gradually becoming intolerant?

Social media has made having online friends a norm. The pattern of social interaction has gone through changes. People have accepted it as the new normal. Some might be lonely, and can easily find friends online or even a life partner through various dating apps.

According to the Roads and Highways Department, they will complete 44 projects this fiscal year.

Over the last 24 years, the Bangabandhu Multipurpose Bridge has been facilitating road transport between the north of Bangladesh and Dhaka. Number of vehicles, commuters and the amount of transported goods on this route have also increased during this period.

The government has undertaken a plan to conduct a survey on Royal Bengal Tigers' food and habitat in the Bangladesh segment of the Sundarbans.

999 is an emergency hotline number that people can call anytime to receive help at any time. That is what was supposed to happen but oftentimes people have to wait 15 to 20 minutes on average for the calls to go through. People have also claimed to have waited up to an hour at times.

How great would it be if underprivileged children enjoyed the same activities as regular school-going children? Every child has the right to a happy childhood, after all.

Among myriad discussions, criticism, obscene and hostile comments, one question pops up every now and then: “Why so much fuss over a teep?”