Bangladesh Railways (BR) started selling half the tickets of intercity trains through station counters from yesterday morning while the rest is being sold online.

UN Resident Coordinator Mia Seppo has appreciated the first verdict under the Anti-Torture Act, saying it will pave the way for other victims to access justice.

Manager of a well-known film actress and at least couple of choreographers are allegedly involved in trafficking girls to Dubai.

Jatiya Party yesterday nominated Mir Abdus Sabur Asud and Kazi Golam Kabir to contest the Dhaka-5 and Naogaon-6 by-elections. Asud is a presidium member of JP while Kabir is the president of Raninagar upazila unit of JP.

After remaining mostly closed since the lockdown begun in March, popular bookstores Bengal Boi and Charcha have started to continue operations at a new branch and online respectively.

Awami League is not a house of cards that it would get destroyed in a tap, said party General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday in reply to the remarks of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir that the power of AL will be ruined like a house of cards.

Mirsarai upazila in Chattogram is already a sought after place for tourists. It boasts natural waterfalls in at least 10 different spots. Everyday, hundreds of tourists from across the country come to the upazila to visit the waterfalls.

The annual installation ceremony of Rotary Club of Metropolitan Dhaka (RCMD) is set to be held today. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the ceremony will be held virtually on the Zoom platform.

Container transport to and from Chattogram port resumed after 12 hours today as workers of prime mover-trailers postponed their work abstention till tomorrow.

One of the five workers, who sustained severe burns while melting iron at a steel mill factory in Gazipur's Tongi area early Friday, has died at hospital.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested dancer Evan Shahriar from the capital’s Niketan suspecting him of being part of a female trafficking ring.

Germany has provided the International Organization for Migration with two million euros to support the UN migration agency’s Covid-19 response in Bangladesh.

Two construction workers died after the scaffolding collapsed while they were working on the fourth floor of an under-construction building in Dhaka’s Bashundhara Residential Area yesterday morning.

Two newly appointed judges of the Appellate Division of Supreme Court -- Justice Tariq-ul-Hakim and Justice Obaidul Hassan -- yesterday paid homage to Bangabandhu by placing wreaths at his grave in Gopalganj’s Tungipara upazila.

Rapid Action Battalion and Fisheries Department, in a joint-drive, seized a huge amount of piranha and African catfish from the capital’s Karwan Bazar yesterday.

Five workers of a steel mill in Gazipur’s Tongi suffered burn injuries yesterday, while melting iron bars.

One of the key changes wrought into the fabric of our lives after the coronavirus outbreak has been regarding education and the prevailing systems of education.

A rape victim was found dead in her room in Rajshahi’s Godagari upazila early on Thursday, an hour after the local municipal councillor let her rapist walk free instead of handing him over to police.

The only burn unit in Barishal division at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) has been closed for five months. Not only that, the only psychiatry ward of the hospital has been closed for around a year.

Small things bring pleasure to children, but insignificant things can also terrify them. In my case, the pleasure came from the tangible physical world, but my fears were often rooted in the imaginary.