For the first time, 239 Bangladeshis flew to Uzbekistan yesterday for work.

A high-powered taskforce, formed to reduce road crashes and bring discipline in road transport sector, is going to hold its second meeting next week, a year after its first meeting.

Vespa owners of Bangladesh held a meet and greet to mark the “Vespa World Days 2020” at the capital’s Chef’s Table Courtside on Friday.

Attacks on religious and ethnic minorities at a time when the government that always upholds the spirit of the Liberation War is in power is really unexpected and unfortunate, said leaders of Bangladesh Hindu, Bouddha, Christian Oikya Parishad yesterday, demanding intervention of the prime minister in this regard.

The recent move by Dhaka South City Corporation to “reform” the city’s waste collection has not fared well with citizens, who say they are being charged excessively by the newly-appointed contractors, and the service is substandard.

Airport Armed Police (AAP) detained five passengers and seized gold ornaments and bars of 2.675 kg and 92 mobile phones at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport today.

A team of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) seized 68 gold bars, weighing around 7.89kg, from an aircraft at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport today.

The first time I tried birding at night was several years ago in Rajshahi. My friend Niaz and I had spent a day cruising the Padma searching its chars for birds.

Two workers died after drinking poisonous spirit from the lab of Khulna Government Girls’ College.

Leaders of indigenous communities in Rajshahi yesterday expressed concern over getting justice to Santal families who endured killings of their dear ones and witnessed eviction through arson in Shahebganj Bagda farm in Gaibandha’s Gobindaganj upazila four years ago.

An angry mob beat a suspected robber to death in Narayanganj yesterday.

A woman was found murdered at a hotel in Rangpur city yesterday, a day after she boarded there with another person who has reportedly fled the place.

Officials of Wildlife Crime Control unit of forest department and Rapid Action Battalion rescued 710 wild birds of different species from Savar yesterday.

The pandemic’s effects on middle and lower income people’s finances come with a lot of invisible struggles. For example, it has become a severe impediment for underprivileged girls and women’s menstrual health. As their expendable money has come down, they struggled to afford sanitary napkins and other feminine hygiene products.

At Babuganj upazila’s Mirganj river, a three-storey ship was spotted anchored at the dock during a recent visit by this correspondent. What seemed like a passenger vessel at first glance turned out to be a floating medical facility that treats some 90-150 patients a day.

A fire that broke out at a 10-storey building in Dhaka's Konapara area has been brought under control.

A single dose of crystal meth costs around Tk 10,000 to 12,000.

Col (retd) Shawkat Ali, former deputy speaker, of the parliament, was put on life support at Dhaka Combined Military Hospital (CMH) yesterday.

Due to lack of education, indigenous people living both in plainlands and hill tracts are continuously being deprived of job opportunities, which is pushing them to ultra poverty, a study has found.

Experts at an online seminar yesterday warned against the dangerous practice of uncontrolled sand-mining, cautioning that this is destroying our rivers.