Crowds of hundreds of people were seen in front of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) trucks in Rampura area of the capital, to avail daily necessities at low prices.

Even after a regular rainfall, Dhaka streets go under knee- to waist-deep water. This is very unfortunate in a country where monsoon rain should have been a blessing.

When fifth grader Piara Akhter was sent to jail, she was only 12.

On the fifth day of the ongoing strict lockdown, banks have reopened and there were more people and vehicles on the streets.

Homes built as gifts to the landless people under the government's Ashrayan-2 project are crumbling under mismanagement and lack of planning. Seven of the 22 houses in Bogura's Sherpur upazila have partially collapsed and in Bogura’s Shajahanpur the houses were flooded after a couple of days of rainfall.

Bangladesh is ranked at the bottom of Covid-19 tests against total population, 174th according to worldometers.info. On the other hand, there is extreme disparity between Covid-19 testing facilities in the capital and other areas, with only 39 RT-PCR machines outside Dhaka out of a total 128 machines.

​​​​​​​On the fourth day of the week-long strict lockdown, while Dhaka streets were seen mostly empty due to heavy rainfall, movement of people and vehicles were seen in other districts.

In celebration of 100 years of Dhaka University, we present to you a video series featuring a number of notable DU alumni, who shared fond memories of their time on campus.

Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) has become the new epicenter of Covid-19 infection as regular and Covid-19 patients are being treated under the same roof.

Third day of the week-long strict lockdown continues amidst surveillance and awareness campaigns of law-enforcement agencies.

After a prolonged halt in Covid-19 vaccination programme, Bangladesh received 2.5 million doses of Moderna vaccine from the United States under the COVAX framework.

Today (July 3, 2021), the last day of the budget session in parliament, Health Minister Zahid Maleque faced severe criticism -- citing his failure in Covid-19 management.

Every year, in heavy rainfall during monsoon, landslides destroy homes and take lives in Chattogram's hilly areas. This is the only time of the year that the authorities try to take action to prevent this regular catastrophe.

The Covid-19 pandemic in the last one and a half years, has resulted in multiple shutdowns, closures and now a lockdown to prevent further spread.

Five years ago, on July 1, 2016, a single horrifying incident changed the perception of militancy in Bangladesh -- that even educated youths from well-off families can be lured into this most atrocious crime.

“Strict lockdown” to be imposed all over the country from the 1st of July. This is one of the several names, categories and degrees of restrictions the government has used in the last one and a half years of pandemic management.

The already perilous lives of sanitation and waste workers have been aggravated by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Dredged sediments and garbage are going back into Bhairab in a strange attempt to restore the river.

The family of a Jahangirnagar University student who has been missing for about a week has demanded for his safe return.

Even during the ongoing pandemic, sanitation work and sanitation workers remain indispensable for Dhaka city and its dwellers.