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.

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.

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.