Riddled with huge potholes and affected by extreme waterlogging, the Tongi-Ashulia DEPZ road could be easily mistaken for a river. The road is used every day by thousands of small and medium-sized vehicles and the intensity of traffic jam is increasing by the day.

The history of Shri Shri Gouri Shankar Goshala Society established about a hundred year ago is entangled with the history of Lalmonirhat town. This institution gave its name to the Goshala Bazar and Goshala Road in this town. Established with the purpose of funding Hindu ritual activities in the locality, with the course of time, it became the centre for the Hindu community in the district. But now, despite owning 14 acres of property, the institution is struggling to fund regular activities.

Three unions of Harirampur upazila in Manikganj, located in a char at the southern banks of Padma River have been severely affected by river erosion.

In preparation for reopening after 1 and a half years of closure, school authorities in Barishal have started cleaning the institutions and taking measures to ensure health and safety of the students.

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.

In Lalpur upazila of Natore, several organized groups have been hacking IMO accounts, especially of expatriates, to embezzle large sums of money.

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.

Coronavirus infections are on the wane in the country, as are the death numbers.

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

Air pollution shortens the average Bangladeshi’s life expectancy by 5.4 years, said the latest edition of the Energy Policy Institute at Chicago's Air Quality Life Index (AQLI).

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.

Aruni Sarkar has invented 6 new climate resistant varieties of Aman rice. This farmer from Gangarampur village of Batiaghata upazila of Khulna had the dream of inventing new varieties of Aman to bring high rice yield in the southwestern region of the country.

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.