Suhana & Anis Ahmed Foundation (SAAF) has donated new medical equipment worth Tk 30 lakh to icddr,b to boost its effort in providing diarrhoeal disease and malnutrition treatment for free.

As is the scene after any election, the streets and dustbins of Savar were filled with discarded election materials used for the recently concluded municipality polls.

Anti-Corruption Commission has pressed charges against expelled Jubo League leader GK Shamim and online casino “kingpin” Salim Prodhan in two separate corruption cases.

Nirapad Sarak Chai yesterday protested and condemned the alleged threat of boycotting its chairman Ilias Kanchan by transport leader and lawmaker Shajahan Khan.

A day after one faction of BFUJ demanded a ban on the transmission Al Jazeera television channel in Bangladesh, another faction of the same organisation issued a statement expressing their shock at the demand.

Leaders of a faction of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) have demanded a ban on the transmission of Qatar-based Al Jazeera television channel in Bangladesh and condemned its “yellow journalism”.

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said BNP is again carrying out its evil attempts to launch violence in the name of political programme after failing to gain people’s support.

BNP yesterday criticised Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader for his remarks on its planned rallies in six cities, saying the ruling party starts “shaking” when it hears about the opposition’s programmes.

At least 484 people were killed and 673 injured in 427 road accidents across the country in January, according to a report of Road Safety Foundation.

A long-time regular at the port city’s Biplab Udyan, former schoolteacher Tarapada Ghosh had been maintaining strict quarantine since the start of the pandemic. What he saw when he finally decided to go to the park on Wednesday astonished him.

Three people were killed and five injured after a truck hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Chattogram city’s Rahattarpul area on Thursday night.

Recently, at least 25 people were injured in separate clashes between workers and police in Kushtia and Narayanganj. Of them, five Bidi (hand-rolled cigarette) workers sustained bullet injuries, as police opened fire on them. The clash took place when the workers were demonstrating, demanding their due wages.

Foreign Minister AK Abndul Momen has said that Bangladesh is cautiously gauging Myanmar army’s intentions about the remaining Rohingya population at Rakhine province, as reports suggest the Myanmar military is taking a reconciliation approach.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has upheld until its further order a High Court directive that asked the government to shut down all illegal brick kilns, having no valid license, in Chattogram.

Police yesterday arrested a man in connection with the death of three staffers of a media organisation, who died due to alcohol poisoning following their trip to a resort in Gazipur.

The first word that comes to mind when I think of bitterns is “shy.” Although I have seen all three species of bitterns found in Bangladesh, it has never been easy. They hide inside foliage, camouflage exceedingly well and fly away quickly when I approached.

A collective of students, teachers, and general public convened at Shahbagh yesterday to mark nine months since the incarceration of writer Mushtaq Ahmed and cartoonist Ahmed Kishore, both of whom had been imprisoned under the Digital Security Act.

A virtual admission fair aiming to introduce students with innovative learning opportunities and career planning for the ‘new normal’ begun on Wednesday. ‘Edugate’, the four-day fair organised by Daffodil Education Network (DEN) is a first of its kind for Bangladesh, a press release said.

“63 countries -- including Canada, Spain and Nepal -- have legal prohibitions on any kind of smoking, including in Designated Smoking Areas (DSA). But our country’s law allows DSAs to exist within public places, including inside train, launches, airports, and restaurants,” Mokhlesur Rahman, assistant director of Dhaka Ahsania Mission’s health sector, said at a webinar held on Wednesday.

Show-cause notices were issued to a doctor and two nurses of an upazila health complex in Netrakona for their alleged negligence in a delivery case on Wednesday.