Isolation and loneliness aggravated Himaloy Himu’s sufferings, and his untimely death by suicide may have been averted by providing him with proper psychological support, said speakers at a programme yesterday in the capital.

Bangladesh embassy in Riyadh has identified the ten Bangladeshi workers who were killed in a road crash on Thursday morning in Shaqra, Saudi Arabia. A minibus was transporting them from Dammam to Madina when it fell into a ditch after a tyre burst.

Speakers at a discussion yesterday stressed the need for developing journalistic competence among the country’s alternative media including those based on the internet to tackle rumours and disinformation.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud yesterday urged BNP to stand beside people during natural disasters.

It’s rather simple for law enforcers to take action if they see the law being broken by people, but when such an incident involves creatures too big for the standard prison cell, things get a little trickier.

Twenty-year-old Shahadat Hossain Shyamol sits on the floor on the space between the elevators and stairs of the fourth floor of Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s burn unit, a gunshot-wound in his foot and police cuffs on his hand, and two police personnel keeping watch.

The parrot family of birds is a prolific group which includes over 390 species. The family includes parakeets, lorikeets, lovebirds, cockatoos, cockatiels, macaws, amazons, galahs and many others. Some of the most beautiful birds of the world are parrots.

Collaboration of all stakeholders is necessary to achieve Bangladesh’s 2041 goals, and for that, the government is ready to cooperate with the private sector, said Education Minister Dipu Moni yesterday.

The authorities of National University (NU) have postponed all the examinations scheduled for tomorrow citing “unavoidable circumstances.”

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain yesterday called upon judges to conduct judicial activities with responsibility, in a bid to clear the backlog of cases at Supreme Court.

A Dhaka court yesterday adjourned hearing of the Barapukuria coal mine graft case until May 16, as BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was not produced before it due to illness.

Police rescued an HSC examinee from Mymensingh city’s Sankipara area, hours after he was abducted.

Detectives arrested former Jamaat-e-Islami MP Shahjahan Chowdhury and other party leaders in the port city on Tuesday night.

Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday filed a case against four persons including two officials of Sonali Bank, for allegedly misappropriating Tk 4.9 crore from another state-run bank Bangladesh Development Bank Ltd (BDBL).

Workers from tannery and garment factories demonstrated in Savar on Wednesday to press home their demands -- including increase in wage and development of workplaces -- in observance of May Day.

Dhaka Wasa’s Narayanganj Mods Zone Executive Engineer Mir Abul Hashem claimed that Wasa supplies safe drinking water, but activists from “Amra Narayanganjbashi” and “Wasa Hotao Sangram Committee” disagree, saying that “the engineer himself drinks bottled water, as is evident from the bottles kept beside his desk.”

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A Bangladeshi volunteer who campaigns against child marriage and violence against women -- including running a sticker campaign on Dhaka public transport -- has been named as a youth ambassador in a prestigious new programme celebrating and promoting the work of young people worldwide, said a press release.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud yesterday said the role of media is undeniable for progressing towards a developed nation.

Bangladesh has become self-sufficient in food production under the leadership and directives of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder said yesterday.