Wastewater from factories has flooded the roads in Dhaka's Shampur industrial area. Garbage piled along the side of the road is once again spilling over. Residents in the area are at severe health risk.

Today marked the first time that Dhaka University's admission test has been held in all eight divisions of the country. The admission test for 'Ka' unit of Dhaka University's science faculty was held today.

For the last four years, most of the homes in the government cluster villages in Dahagram union in Lalmonirhat have been empty. At least 130 landless families were given homes in these villages of Dahagram union in Patgram upazila. Now 80 of these 130 villages are unoccupied and the 50 families living there are facing problems regularly.

The RT-PCR labs at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka have finally been set up, were given approval and have started testing outbound passengers for coronavirus.

In order to protect our rivers and waterbodies, the High Court had declared them as living entities. With pollution increasing each and every day, government bodies like BIWTA filling up rivers, and encroachment by unscrupulous business entities, our insincerity in protecting our rivers is apparent.

Although Mirajul's work requires him to sell a variety of titbits out on the streets, he still finds time to satiate the voracious reader within him.

While the government is celebrating a step towards data protection with a law modelled after the EU’s data protection law, experts are expressing grave concern about it being another tool for surveillance and repression.

Abdul Halim of Manikganj has studied science textbooks to devise a novel design for pots to grow plants, without them posing a risk of being breeding grounds for mosquito larvae.

To celebrate the 75th birthday of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the Ministry of Shipping and BIWTA organised Nouka Baich, a traditional boat race on the capital's Buriganga river using a special kind of long, narrow.

The government is planning to bring 80% of the country’s population under Covid-19 vaccination, and has announced that two crore individuals will be given vaccines each month.

App-based ride-sharing bikers assembled for their labour rights and in protest against police harassment and high commission rates set by the ride-sharing companies. Today, in front of the National Press Club, leaders of the App-Based Drivers’ Union of Bangladesh announced 6 demands from the assembly.

On November 1, 2020, journalist Golam Sarwar, was found in a near-unconscious beside a canal at Sitakunda, Chattogram after being missing for three days. After regaining consciousness, he started crying, “I will not do news coverage anymore”. But, the investigation report of his case stated that there is no evidence of him being abducted.

The delectable and unique sweets of Bangladesh are indeed a culinary representation of our country. After all, the array of various mishtis from different parts of the country speak volumes about its diversity

“I had been flung into the raging sea during my daughter’s custody battle. This is not all, many belittled me and discouraged me through and through and yet, I rose like a Phoenix from the ashes.”

Due to the Dhaka-Sylhet railway and Srimangal-Bhanugach road running through the reserve forest of Lawachara, many of the critically endangered hoolock gibbon species have died in accidents with cars and trains while crossing them. To save the habitat of the species, canopy bridges have been constructed throughout the forest by a team of researchers from Jagannath University.

The government has reduced the interest rate of savings certificate, allegedly due to pressure from different stakeholders.

Work of the first flyover in Rajshahi has remained halted for the last three months. For local farmers, the flyover and the adjacent road undergoing expansion have turned into a grazing area for their cows. Because of repeated change in plan, construction of the flyover and the expansion of the 5km road has remained incomplete for the last 8 years.

The much-awaited RT-PCR lab has been installed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. But it did not bring an end to the distress of UAE-bound expats. Many have complained that they are not getting any service at the lab.

Payra Bridge is finally going to open to traffic after a 5-year extension of the project deadline and with Tk 1 ,000 crore in extra spending. Commuters will no longer have to board ferries to go from Barishal to Kuakata or Patuakhali by road.

Tension erupted at Dhaka University (DU) Science Library today, on the first day of reopening of libraries, when the assistant proctor attempted to slap a student.