Asifur Rahman

As much as 60 percent of the country’s power generation capacity remained unutilised in 2020 because of a lack of demand for electricity.

Residents of many areas in the capital have been facing an acute gas crisis for the last few weeks due to an inadequate supply of piped gas.

Right after graduating in 2017, Hamim (not his real name) started submitting scholarship applications for master’s programmes abroad. In the meantime, he kept working as a marketing officer for a private organisation.

A master’s student of chemistry at Dhaka College who was planning to finish post-graduation a while ago, he is now waiting impatiently for his remaining exams to be over so that he can shoulder some of the family responsibilities that his father bears alone.

Abu Taher, a 57-year-old man suffering from spinal pain, hip fracture, diabetes, and kidney problems, braved traffic in front of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University for three days on a wheelchair to be tested for Covid-19.

As the first publisher of the books Bangabandhu Maney Swadhinota and 3053 Din, the Ministry of Liberation War and the prison directorate should have the copyright of the two books, recommends an enquiry committee.

While many may not remember the last time they used a landline phone, some families still have it -- either gathering dust in storage or still displayed on the corner table in the living room.

“IT-based rural post office” -- that’s what is written on the two-room pucca building of Koilain Post Office in Nawabganj, Dhaka.

With a ray of hope, Bangladesh’s solar energy industry’s 5.8 million decentralised solar home systems have created around 137,400 jobs, said the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

Around 40 turtles were found dead on Cox’s Bazar sea beach in mid-July, due to injuries after being entangled in fishing nets, said a fact-finding committee.

Students are deprived of reaping the rewards of the semester system in four public universities due to mismanagement by the authorities.

Hungry people, some with children, begin to gather near Raju sculpture on Dhaka University campus after midnight, and by 3:00am, there are almost 400 of them sitting down expectantly on the street.

With coronavirus positive cases increasing in the country, many are expressing dissatisfaction over the small number of tests being conducted every day and wondering about the possible reason behind this.

As the country spends days in a near-lockdown situation to curb the spread of coronavirus, street animals are having to go hungry with everyone at home and all shops closed.

The prices of essentials, including rice, vegetables, cooking oil, spices, and cleaning items, have increased several folds over the last one week.

With the first light of day still more than an hour away, DU students, mainly those willing to sit for recruitment tests for BCS and other government jobs, start gathering in front of the Central Library gate from 5:00am. The library actually opens at 8:00am. Over the years, the number of those going to the library has increased, but there has been a sharp decline in the number of books issued.

The business studies teachers are lobbying hard for continuation of the evening courses as the Dhaka University authorities are likely to decide tomorrow whether to stop enrolment of students in those courses.

Combating the mosquito menace was a key promise in the manifesto of Mohammad Hanif, who became the first elected mayor of the undivided Dhaka City Corporation in 1994.

BNP-nominated mayor candidate for Dhaka South City Corporation Ishraque Hossain began his yesterday’s campaign later than usual, around 2:30 pm, after unveiling his election manifesto at Jatiya Press Club.