What made those long waits worthwhile was the food served at the shanty restaurants dotted on the sides of the road leading to the ghat.

Covid-19 vaccination drive in Bangladesh is for the most part a success story. According to WHO, as of April 6, 75.25% of the population have received the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine and 67.37% the second dose, and 9.10% have already received the third booster dose.

Climate change has put the entire world at risk of natural calamities. Bangladesh faces a greater risk because it is a coastal country.

Once, a village fair used to be filled with pottery items like jars, plant pots, rice pots, tepa dolls, terracotta jars of different sizes, small toys, vases and many more.

Hriday Mondal is a teacher at Binodpur Ram Kumar High School. For the past 22 years he’s been teaching maths and science here. But now the education system has him in jail. The school’s headmaster Alauddin Ahmed mentioned that on March 20 students were asking Hriday general questions but the next day 10 to 12 had gone to him and brought allegations of blasphemy against the science teacher. The headmaster had temporarily suspended Hriday over the allegations.

Pilots of various local and foreign airlines have complained that people are quite often and frequently targeting lasers on planes during landing or takeoffs at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. Pilots are saying there could be a major accident due to these laser beams. Who are pointing these lasers on aeroplanes? What steps can be taken by the authorities to stop the laser beam menace?

The Maha Ashtami festival or Basanti Puja has been organised along the Brahmaputra river in Narayanganj's Langalband, Kaliganga river in Manikganj and Rishal Babuganj, after 2 years. The area was kept under heavy surveillance by the administration during the festival.

Not only was he a Nawab, but he was also a poet, musician and foodie, with whom biryani's triumphant journey began in Calcutta. But the story of this nawab will defeat any tragedy of the West. The Nawab who came to Calcutta with the intention to regain the kingdom, had to end up in the trap of various conspiracies at Metiabruz near Calcutta.

Science teacher Hridoy Chandra Mondal was arrested on March 22 for hurting religious sentiments. But at this point, can this incident be set aside as merely an isolated event, or is it not an oozing example of a rotting society and the government caving in to fanaticism? Why were the students behaving in such a manner? Who recorded the audio? And why does the plaintiff himself not know how he was brought into this case? But the question that towers above all, what does this incident and its ongoing aftermath signify? Are we as a society gradually becoming intolerant?

It is not a typical Bangladeshi village fair. Here, seeds of various plants and crops are bought and sold. For the last 10 years, a local private organisation ‘Lokoj’ has been arranging this fair in Gangarampur union under Batiata, Khulna.

Social media has made having online friends a norm. The pattern of social interaction has gone through changes. People have accepted it as the new normal. Some might be lonely, and can easily find friends online or even a life partner through various dating apps.

After his big debut with Hoichoi Bangladesh’s “Mohanagar”, Ashfaque Nipun has come back with another series titled -- “Sabrina”.

According to the Roads and Highways Department, they will complete 44 projects this fiscal year.

Over the last 24 years, the Bangabandhu Multipurpose Bridge has been facilitating road transport between the north of Bangladesh and Dhaka. Number of vehicles, commuters and the amount of transported goods on this route have also increased during this period.

From a trade union leader to an actor, the life story of Mahbub Alam is like a movie plot.

The government has undertaken a plan to conduct a survey on Royal Bengal Tigers' food and habitat in the Bangladesh segment of the Sundarbans.

In the Middle Ages, Chattogram was one of the major hubs for the wooden shipbuilding industry. Ships from Chattogram used to be exported to places like Egypt, Turkey, and Germany.  

999 is an emergency hotline number that people can call anytime to receive help at any time. That is what was supposed to happen but oftentimes people have to wait 15 to 20 minutes on average for the calls to go through. People have also claimed to have waited up to an hour at times.

Plants in exchange of plants! If you have two cactuses of the same kind in your collection, you can trade one of them for a different plant.

How great would it be if underprivileged children enjoyed the same activities as regular school-going children? Every child has the right to a happy childhood, after all.