In civil administration, officers are getting promoted in unusually high numbers creating an unbalanced top-heavy hierarchy in the country's bureaucracy. Several top positions of civil administration are occupied beyond their capacity. For example, there are now 309 additional secretaries against 99 posts, and 490 joint secretaries against 370 posts.

The entire village of Chilmaripara in Sindurna union of Hatibandha upazila has been lost to Teesta River. All 250 houses of the village eroded into the river and the villagers are left with nothing but uncertainty.

The water level of Padma and Jamuna is on the rise after days of rain affecting the locals in the area. Thousands of families in low-lying areas Daulatpur, Shibaloy, Harirampur upazilas have been marooned due to the rising water of Padma and Jamuna. Jalalpur village in Shahjadpur Upazila of Sirajganj is slowly disappearing due to Jamuna river erosion.

In the 43rd founding anniversary of BNP, the political party is possibly going through the lowest point in their history.

After 27 days of imprisonment, film actress Pori Moni has been released on bail. Pori Moni came out of the jail gate in a white car at 9:36am today (September 1, 2021). 

The courageous operations led by the guerrillas of the Crack Platoon in Dhaka put the Pakistani military on their toes in 1971. Trained in the Melaghar camp in India’s Tripura, they made their first mark in the Liberation War history through Operation Hotel Intercontinental.

Parki beach was once a place where one could go to see turtles, red crabs and experience pristine nature. In 2017, Cyclone Mora hit the coast of Bangladesh. The giant deep-sea vessel ‘crystal gold’ got stranded on this beach and is still there to this day.

The apparel industry of Bangladesh is struggling to recover from the ongoing global economic crisis and the price hike of yarn has become an unavoidable extra burden.

A ferry's flag-stand hit a span of Padma Bridge at Mawa in Munshiganj this morning. This is the second time in August that this ferry named Birshreshtha Jahangir has hit Padma Bridge.

Lakhs of people on Teesta are waiting for the implementation of the Teesta mega project. With industrial development and business opportunities the project is set to bring, the people of this area will have a shot at a better life.

A road in Tangail’s Bashail upazila is now in dire condition before less than two months after it was constructed at an expense of Tk 70 lakh.

Between 2010 and 2012, the US employed over 100,000 soldiers in Afghanistan. This deployment was costing Washington $100 billion a year.

In Gutudia, Khulna, there is only one tubewell for four villages and their six thousand residents. Many wait for their turn for hours, and many walk, cycle and even sail miles for getting daily water supply.

The stock of many high value fish in Bay of Bengal has been in a state of steady decline -- threatening the country's fishing industry, and disrupting marine ecosystems. Why and how severe is the decline in marine fish stock?

In the span of a month, Noarpara, a village on a char in Jamuna, has been engulfed by the river. There is nothing now where once there was community and vitality.

Although the Barishal paddy sapling market is usually bustling during the peak season, this year the market is facing a dearth of buyers.

Chattogram port, the main port of the country has slipped nine notches down in the latest Lloyd's List ranking of the top 100 busiest seaports. After showing continuous advancement since 2014, the progress earned by this port has been set back by the recent pandemic.

The medical cost of Covid-19 is resulting in an economic burden of a lifetime as treatment costs in private hospitals is sky high and government hospitals lack capacity to accommodate the surge in patients.

The first metro rail in the country has inaugurated its performance test phase with a successful test run.

Local fisherman in Rajbari caught a colossal ray, weighing around 400 kilograms, from the Padma River on Thursday morning.