A space has to be created for youth so that they can participate in the country’s development policy, said speakers at a virtual dialogue yesterday.

Rashid Babu, president of Rangpur Press Club, passed away following a cardiac arrest at his home on Saturday morning, aged 68.

Police yesterday arrested six people in connection with the death of a Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinee, whose body was recovered in Mymensingh’s Sadar upazila on Friday evening, three days after he went missing.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain yesterday constituted nine more High Court benches for virtually hearing and disposing of urgent cases, as the court will reopen today, after a two- week annual vacation.

The Cardiac Care Unit (CCU) of Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) is not in operational condition. Its only angiogram machine is not working, and all its air conditioners are out of order, which means the unit is barely functioning.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested top Hefajat leader Junayed Babunagari’s personal assistant Enamul Hasan Farooqi in Chattogram on Friday night over mayhem in Hathazari on March 26.

At 12 noon on Friday, rickshaw-puller Md Belal stood at Jamal Khan Road with his clothes stuck to his body with sweat. The 37-year-old has been

Indigenous people are the worst sufferers of the impact of climate change in the world including Bangladesh, said environmentalists and researchers at a webinar yesterday.

Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Minister Md Tajul Islam said punitive measures will be taken against those found responsible in Aedes mosquito breeding.

Defying coronavirus scares and multiple hurdles on their way, a large number of Dhaka dwellers yesterday returned to the city after celebrating Eid at their village homes.

Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has taken up a Tk 850-crore project for constructing flyovers at five more locations in the city, but has skipped the city’s most traffic-congested area, Shaheb Bazar.

Political parties of the country are likely to get another nine years to keep at least 33 percent positions of all committee at local and national levels reserved for women as all the major parties failed to ensure it before the deadline.

Monir Hossain Kashemi, finance affairs secretary of Hefajat-e-Islam's central committee, was arrested by Detective Branch of Gulshan Division police last night from Dhaka’s Baridhara area.

A pangolin was released in Lawachhara forest in Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar on Thursday evening after seven days of treatment.

Three people were killed and four others injured in road accidents in two districts yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.

The daily order of business of this year’s budget session will be carried out with minimum lawmakers in the House to maintain social distancing and avoid risk of Covid-19 infection, and the duration of the session will be brief.

“There is poverty in every sector, but tea workers suffer the most as they’re geographically confined due to several reasons. They must be integrated into the mainstream,” said Prof Wahiduddin Mahmud, an eminent economist, yesterday.

Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Ambassador Rabab Fatima yesterday urged the international community to take urgent and decisive actions to resolve the longstanding crisis in Palestine.

While we may not give them a second look, sparrows have distinguished lineage. They lend their name, Passer, to the order Passerines, which comprises more than half of the world’s bird species. Another name for Passerine is songbird.

Kazi Abdus Shahid Lal, a Language Movement veteran and lawyer in Jashore, died at a local hospital yesterday, aged 82.