Imagine that time when people had no social media and everyone was filled with doubts whether they would get a second chance to meet their dearest friend once they parted ways at the end of their school year. Well, gone are those days. Thanks to social media, we can now stay in touch with our beloved friends, even years after school ends and it is a far memory.

Jatiya Party (JP) urges the government to make a permanent list of flood-affected people to distribute relief materials among them every year.

One suspected drug peddler and three “robbers” have been killed in separate “gunfights” in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Two pregnant women have died of dengue fever during treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in Dhaka.

A madrasa teacher has been arrested allegedly for attempting to sexually abuse a 10-year-old boy in Tarail upazila of Kishoreganj.

Two coal traders who have been abducted from Sunamganj three days ago are rescued from Morrelganj upazila of Bagerhat.

The High Court has observed that there is no bar in the law of the land to the marriage between a bridegroom and a bride of higher caste and lower caste.

Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of Muslims, will be celebrated across the country on August 12 as the new moon of the Arabic month of Zilhaj is sighted in Bangladesh sky.

Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan says rail route connecting the capital and eight northern districts via Gaibandha will be restored before Eid-ul-Azha.

Calling upon the people to remain calm, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the process to bring effective medicine to eliminate Aedes mosquito is underway.

A Ganges River Dolphin (Platanista gangetica; locally known as shushuk) dies due to use of illegal current net for fishing in Pashru river in Rampal upazila of Bagerhat.

Chattogram Port, the country’s premium sea port, has advanced six steps in terms of annual throughput of containers in this year’s Lloyd’s List, world’s oldest journal on port and shipping.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam says that the sample of insecticide for effective control of Aedes mosquito in Dhaka will be brought from abroad within a day or two.

An alleged drug dealer is killed in a reported gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Pubail area of Gazipur.

Around 50 warehouses are gutted in a fire that broke out at a slum in Narayanganj Sadar upazila.

After years of success in farming turkey in the Philippines, an expatriate Bangladeshi sets up a farm at his village home in Manikganj with an aim to export the poultry to markets in France.

At least eight people including four women are killed and twenty others injured in a tragic road accident on Thakurgaon-Dhaka highway.

Four children drowned in Kishoreganj, Jamalpur and Lalmonirhat in the last two days.

Children of indigenous Musahar community living at Subarnakhuli village on the border of Nilphamari Sadar upazila and Dinajpur’s Khansama upazila are deprived of schooling as their lone institution Subarnakhuli LSS Primary School has remained under lock and key for the last two years.

A newly married girl was killed allegedly by her husband over a family feud at Alinagar village in Astagram upazila of Kishoreganj on Wednesday.