After nearly 18 months of being closed due to the ongoing pandemic, schools and high schools of Bangladesh are finally being reopened on September 12.

When Arifa Yasmin Mayuri tried to live her life as a trans woman in this society, she faced abuse and prejudice from both her family and the society at large.

Local residents, instead of any government initiative, of Birganj, Dinajpur have raised money to install a central oxygen supply system in Birganj Upazila Health Complex. The oxygen supply system can now aid 50 patients at a time.

Seventeen jewellery shops and a grocery shop of Nayarhat Bazar were looted at midnight on Monday, September 6.

A devastating fire at Nur Super Market in Keraniganj at around 11 pm yesterday destroyed more than two hundred stores to ashes.

The traditional boat race festival (Nouka Baich) started this year on September 4. The yearly festival was held in Chapra beel of Tangail and on the Chiknai river in Atgharia upazila in Pabna.

Abdur Razzak, known by locals for his love of trees and nature, has planted over one lakh trees in the last 15 years. His environmental activism started when he was a college student. He funds his planting activities by doing agricultural work and by teaching students.

Two Awami league leaders who were grievously injured in a scuffle during the violence at the UNO office of Barishal on August 18 have secured bail. The leaders are Maniruzzaman Mani, chairman of Barishal ward-23 Awami League and Mohammad Tanvir.

Hundreds of birds were killed and many more lost their habitat as trees were chopped down in Rajshahi Medical College Hospital premises.

The price of edible oil does not seem to be coming under control, try as one may. Importers attribute the increase in the price of edible oil on the global market to a number of factors.

In Gaibandha, a family is now forced to shackle their 16-year-old, who is intellectually disabled, to the bed -- as the whole area has been underwater for weeks, and the family has no means to rehabilitate.

Common cold, little scratch, or big infection -- everything can turn fatal because of antibiotic resistance.

Many important roads in Gazipur’s Sreepur have been severely damaged and unusable for about 8 years.

Chopola Rani has been rowing ferryboats in Saturia upazila of Manikganj for the last 18 years. She took up her husband’s profession when he became paralysed, leaving her to take care of four children. But now, the decline in the number of ferryboat passengers has left her struggling to make a living.

Bangladesh technology startup, Crux, has invented an energy-efficient and portable medical ventilator.

The water level of Jamuna river has been flowing above the danger mark in Bogura. The most affected in this catastrophe are the inhabitants of the char areas of Jamuna. Some people in this district have been marooned for a week and some for nearly a month.

A group of freedom fighters went back to the house of Ijjat Ali 50 years after it played an important role in the country’s liberation.

In a remote village of Moulvibazar district, 'Vogtera Community Clinic' -- providing health services to mothers, without sophisticated service equipment -- has earned accolades across the country.

Abul Mansur Ahmad, a politician, journalist, lawyer and writer, was born over a hundred years ago. Tomorrow, September 3, is his 123rd birth anniversary. Even though he was born over a century ago, the relevance of his writing, his perspective and his satirical attack on prejudice, communalism and aggression of political and cultural nature, is far from waning. Praising his extraordinary skill of drawing out the essence of language, his friend Kazi Nazrul Islam said “His hand is the hand of a virtuoso.”

A mother had herself trafficked to save her daughter who was smuggled outside the country. Her quest beats any movie script.