Food and water sources of about 40 families of the remote Lama upazila of Bandarban were destroyed in a fire on April 26 by Lama Rubber Industries Limited. Residents of the affected Mro neighborhood alleged that Lama Rubber Industries Limited set fire to the hills to grab the land. However, the company officials denied the allegations of setting fire, saying they had only cleared the mountains.

Protests have been ongoing in Sri Lanka for more than a month. Sri Lankans are demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa after his brother prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned on May 9.

At Baishakhi mela and all other local fairs, indigenous toy known as “Tomtom” is very popular.

The government has been working on building 258km of underground rail to ease up the traffic of Dhaka city. This plan consists of 11 different subway routes in Dhaka by 2050. Urban planners have called the project "costly" and "ambitious." They are saying that the project will not bring any positive change in the traffic congestion of the capital.

The 250-year-old traditional “Poradaho Mela” was held this year in the presence of thousands of people at Golabari area under Gabtoli upazila of Bogura district.

Only six projects under Bangladesh Railway will finish timely, out of the 20 projects set to be completed this fiscal year. This was the case for at least 19 projects last fiscal year.

While Dhaka was losing its splendour after the fall of Mughal Empire, the local zamindars and nawabs under British rule tried to revive its past splendour as the city of gardens. Dhaka's Baldha Garden is one of the most magnificent examples of this beautification effort. Still it is one of the richest botanical gardens of this subcontinent that spans 3.15 acres of land and boasts of eighteen thousand plant specimens of eight hundred different species. It has some of the rarest species of plants that can be found nowhere else in Bangladesh or even in this subcontinent.

A traveling ticket examiner (TTE) of Bangladesh Railway's Pakshey Division was suspended after he fined three passengers who were traveling without tickets, introducing themselves as relatives of the railway minister. The suspension order was, however, withdrawn today.

Sudder Street is a busy thoroughfare in the bustling city of Kolkata. What's unique about this street is that it attracts many Bangladeshis.

Both BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and Awami League MP Haji Salim are convicts. Both needed treatment abroad. Even though family members of Khaleda Zia have asked the law minister and government repeatedly to take her abroad for medical treatment, they were denied by the authorities. Yet Haji Salim, who's been convicted for 10 years over corruption, has returned home after receiving medical treatment in Bangkok, Thailand. There has been soaring criticism in the national media regarding the treatment by the government in regard to the two convicts.

An evil organisation is behind smuggling people abroad. This ring is equally strong locally and internationally.

Since he was five years old, Amir Hossain, the son of "Dholu Maker," has been familiar with machines.

Locals are claiming that a fire caused by the LAMA Rubber Industries on land used for jhum farming in Bandarban is now causing food and water shortage in the remote areas of Lama upazila.

With a grand entrance to the show business through LUX Channel I Superstar 2010, Mousumi Hamid lived up to her inauguration with a bag full of national hits both on TV and silver screen. 

Joint families in Bangladesh, like in most countries, have been split up. With that, family ties, love, and connection to parents appear to be waning.

After creating a bold position for herself in Bangladeshi and Indian films, Jaya Ahsan has started working in an Iranian film.

Taslima Nasrin is an internationally known writer of Bangla literature. Because of her controversial writings, she received more criticism than appreciation. For her writings, she was banished from Bangladesh. But that did not diminish her spirit. She continues to write.

Siam Ahmed and Puja Cherry duo returned to the silver screen once again, this time, with the thriller film “Shaan”.

Do the people, who work in the private sectors of Bangladesh, know about the labour laws of the country? How much do they know?

During the two years of pandemic, almost everybody has been pushed towards economic crisis, many to extreme poverty.