In proper garbage management, waste should be disposed of in a protected landfill area first to minimise pollution of surface and ground water, soil and air. Later, those have to be gradually recycled, reused and incinerated.

A group of North South University students today staged a sit-in programme on the campus, demanding 30 percent waiver of fees in the upcoming Fall-2020 semester due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Rayhan Ahmed, who was allegedly tortured to death in Sylhet city's Bandarbazar police outpost, had 111 injury marks on his body and two of his nails were pulled off, according to the autopsy report.

The High Court today rejected a writ petition that challenged legality of the process for reappointing Taqsem A Khan to the post of managing director (MD) of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa).

The condition of the baby girl -- declared dead at Dhaka Medical College Hospital early Friday but found alive before burial hours later -- is critical. She is under treatment at the Neonatal Intensive Care unit at the hospital.

Expelling its eight rebel leaders -- including Mostafa Mohsin Montu, Dr Abu Sayeed and Subrata Chowdhury -- Gonoforum, led by Dr Kamal Hossain, yesterday decided to hold the party’s central council on December 12.

Let’s compare transit drivers, who sit most of the day, and conductors or guards, who don’t. Though diets and lifestyles are a lot similar of both groups, the drivers are about twice as likely to get heart disease than the other groups. It is just because of sitting.

It had nearly been an hour, but Khadiza Khatun was still moving from vendor to vendor with her empty bazaar bag in Tejgaon kitchen market.

This year’s Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the country’s Hindu community, will be celebrated on a limited scale amid the coronavirus pandemic, Hindu community leaders said yesterday.

Yesterday was the 15th death anniversary of MA Samad, an influential figure in the insurance industry.

Eminent educationist, cultural and sports organiser Prof Amir Ahmed Chowdhury Ratan died of old age complications at a Dhaka hospital on Thursday night. He was 79.

Bangladesh Open University (BOU) has given 15 members of transgender or hijra community an opportunity to enrol at its SSC programme this year.

To press home their 11-point demand -- which includes tri-party contracts, compensation for death on duty, and increased social safety nets -- water transport workers have announced to go on strike from the early hours of Monday.

Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) fined two enterprises Tk 80,000 in Barishal city yesterday, for supplying rotten eggs and selling substandard food items.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud has been admitted to a hospital in the capital with coronavirus infection.

Sanmar Properties Limited, one of the top real estate companies in the country, has been razing greenery along with hills nearby Bangladesh Forest Research Institute in Chattogram city’s Sholoshahar area for a twin multistory apartment block project.

Former state minister and BNP leader AKM Mosharraf Hossain died at a private hospital in Dhaka today.

Ahead of the announced three-hour internet shutdown across the country every day from tomorrow, internet service providers and cable operators are going to sit with Post and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar at 6pm today to resolve the issue.

Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) Mayor Ariful Haque was admitted to a hospital in the city today.

On October 15, 1985, the roof of Dhaka University's residential Jagannath Hall collapsed. The tragedy claimed the lives of as many as 40 people, including 26 students and 14 guests. Since then, October 15 is observed as a day of mourning for the university.