Instead of protecting the Buckland Bund of Old Dhaka, its custodians have been busy erecting illegal structures on the historic dam and its periphery since 1984.

Sixty-year-old Hormuj Ali of Char Kharibari Shoal village in Nilphamari’s Dimla upazila, along with his six family members, returned home from local flood shelter but almost nothing of his home was left.

It remains a mystery why Bangladesh government is still in a fix about allowing a clinical trial of the Chinese Covid-19 vaccine here when health experts are saying the trial can help the country access the life-saving vaccine quickly and build national capacity for advanced research.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) yesterday formed a three-member committee to investigate the explosion incident inside the capital’s Pallabi Police Station on early Wednesday.

Contradicting the police account, family members of two of the suspects arrested in connection with the explosion at Pallabi Police Station said they were detained two days before the incident.

Long tailbacks on highways, crammed buses, launches and trains, and anxious faces of holidaymakers -- the usual scenes before every Eid are missing this time.

Flood is hampering over 8 lakh students’ access to remote learning, introduced to minimise disruptions to their education during the pandemic.

Amid an existing security alert, a bomb fitted inside a “weighing machine”, which police seized, exploded inside Pallabi Police Station yesterday morning, injuring four policemen and a support staff.

Experts yesterday said a higher rate of conviction in human trafficking cases could be an effective way to curb the crime in the country.

After arriving in Ho Chi Minh City, they found that the Vietnamese company that sponsored their visas had no jobs for them. After a week, they were asked to work for a furniture factory though they were promised jobs at the seaport.

Around 37 percent of the country’s total area has been flooded, said Prof AKM Saiful Islam, of Buet’s Institute of Water and Flood Management, after analysing satellite images.

Mask-clad Muslims began the hajj yesterday, circling Islam’s holiest site along socially distanced paths in the smallest pilgrimage in modern history as the Saudi hosts strive to prevent a coronavirus outbreak.

Thirty-five people died of coronavirus infection and 3,009 tested positive for the highly transmissible virus in the 24 hours till 8:30am yesterday.

Floodwater has destroyed embankments in many areas, inundating villages and causing people immense sufferings.

Pilgrims were quarantined in the Muslim holy city of Makkah yesterday ahead of the dramatically downsized hajj as Saudi authorities strive to prevent a coronavirus outbreak during the pilgrimage.

The number of deaths from Covid-19 infection in the country reached the grim milestone of 3,000 yesterday, with 35 new deaths.

Like any other teenage student, Tarek Aziz would attend classes or hang out with friends on the campus. He would also go to a movie or play cricket or football in his spare time.

In the last two years after the road safety movement, the enactment of a tougher road transport act and the formation of a taskforce to curb road crashes have been the most talked about issues in the transport sector.

Putting emphasis on keeping up Bangladesh’s progress in the agriculture sector, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government has been providing all kinds of assistance for ensuring food security amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

On September 26, 2007, The Daily Star ran a report with a headline “Living with dirty, stinky wasa water”, highlighting the innumerable sufferings of Dhaka city dwellers.