Bangladesh Business and Disability Network (BBDN), recently awarded as one of the winners of the prestigious Zero Project Award, is launching a

A 14-year-old house help died after falling from the rooftop of a building in Dhaka’s Uttara area yesterday morning.

Four people were killed and seven injured in road accidents in the capital and Panchagarh in last two days.

Artistes in Mymensingh organised an art camp, protesting the vandalism of Bangabandhu’s sculpture at Mymensingh Town Hall premises yesterday afternoon.

The French Development Agency (AFD) will provide a loan of 100 million euros to Bangladesh for reinforcing its role as an active participant in the search for and use of advanced digital solutions in power and energy sector in the country.

Bangladesh has urged the global community to ensure availability of affordable vaccines, medicines, and equipment for migrants in vulnerable situations, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rattle public health and economies across the globe.

Bangladesh Police will be introducing tactical belts for officials involved in operational duty and patrols, as part of its efforts to better equip the force and make the policing system more efficient.

As the Liberation War marks its 50th year, the number of people who lived through those are being increasingly outnumbered by those born later. In such a time, it is important to establish practises that remind later generations of the spirit of the war.

Birds of prey capture our imagination for many possible reasons. It could be their display of power and agility. It could be their spare, elegant beauty.

Authorities at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport has fined Maldivian Airlines Tk 2,38,000 for carrying passengers to Bangladesh without Covid-19 negative certificates.

One in 10 girls said they may not go back to school after reopening because of economic problems and marriage, found a study by the Population Council, circulated yesterday.

Poet Abdul Basit Mohammad succumbed to injuries yesterday morning at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital, after he got hurt falling into an under-construction drain in Sylhet city’s Amberkhana area on Monday evening.

To cater to the growing demand, the government has decided to go forward with the plan to join a third submarine cable. This submarine cable, third of its kind, will be fully functional by 2024 and will be added around 7200 Gbps of Bandwidth to the national information infrastructure.

Customs officials in Chattogram yesterday seized three containers of cosmetics weighing 50 tonnes, imported after declaring them as plough for cultivating agricultural land. Officials said the cosmetics are worth around Tk 2.5 crore.

A court in Chattogram put two youths including the son of a ruling party leader of port city’s Maddham Halishahar area, on three-day remand in a case filed with Patenga police station over physically assaulting a judge yesterday.

ARM Zahidur Rahman, production director of Beximco Pharma, died at a Dhaka hospital on Thursday. He was 59, says a press release.

Savar Municipality authorities have failed to arrange a landfill or garbage dumping station in its 28 years of establishment, hampering waste management to a great extent.

A teenager was killed and another injured allegedly by muggers in Abdullapur area of Dhaka’s Uttara on Wednesday night.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced a student of Dhaka City College to jail until death and five others to life-term imprisonment for killing Ayaz Haq, a student of Dhanmondi Government Laboratory High School, in 2014.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen yesterday said a work plan has been prepared that will act as a guideline to untap potentials of the blue economy.