Shafiqul Islam, a Gaibandha engineer, has been working to develop an electric version of the traditional rice grinding tool "Dheki".

Prof Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq of the Bangla department of Dhaka University was a colleague of Prof Humayun Azad. He spoke to The Daily Star about his late friend. He also spoke about how a universal democratic system could widen the path to free-thinking.

The dedicated service lanes and bus bay or bus stop projects amounted to around Tk 700 crore, and the construction work at various bus stands and market locations from Gabtoli to Paturia Ghat is near completion. However, most bus stops and market areas along the Dhaka-Nabinagar route do not use these separate lanes for the stoppage. As a result, the highway is completely packed all the time.

Health plays an important role in our lives. It is mostly defined by the mental, and physical fitness of our body. If our physical health is not well, neither will be our mental health and vice versa.

Humayun Azad, a writer, poet, linguist, and a professor of University of Dhaka was brutally attacked by extremist militants on February 27, 2004. The verdict of his murder case is going to be delivered today at last after 18 long years.

Bangladeshi garment exporters to Russia did not see the eastern European country’s war with Ukraine coming. They became really worried about their payments from Russian buyers when the US government and the European Union started imposing bans to hamper Russia’s foreign transactions. Even bans were slapped on the use of airspaces. Moreover, the Biden administration took steps to cut off Russia's central bank from US dollar transactions.

Hridoy Chandra Mandal, a teacher of Munshiganj Sadar Upazila's Binodpur Ramkumar High School, has been released on bail.

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.