Dare not skip ‘guest room meeting’

A first-year mass communication student at Dhaka University was allegedly bullied and mentally tortured by a few seniors in the guest room of Bijoy Ekattor Hall on Wednesday night.
27 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Dhaka most polluted city in the world

Dhaka is the most polluted city in the world, and air pollution is the main cause for respiratory issues, said Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday.
27 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Abrar Murder Case: HC accepts 17 jail appeals for hearing

The High Court yesterday accepted the jail appeals of 17 death-row convicts in Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case for hearing.
26 January 2022, 18:00 PM

‘One has no licence, another on drugs’

One of the two buses, which crushed a teenage boy in Dhaka’s Moghbazar area on January 20, was being driven by a helper who has no driving licence.
26 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Country marching towards progress

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday told parliament that Bangladesh is marching towards progress at an overwhelming pace, dispelling pessimists’ takes on the country’s future.
26 January 2022, 18:00 PM

‘Stop plastic use, save Kuakata’

Demanding an end to the use of disposable plastics to protect the environment of Kuakata beach, a memorandum signed by 2,783 people was handed over to the Patuakhali deputy commissioner (DC) on Tuesday.
26 January 2022, 18:00 PM

‘Tis the season to eat molasses

It’s a relatively small window. For four months a year, from mid-November to March, farmers who sell molasses from date juice hit their peak.
26 January 2022, 18:00 PM

700 acres submerged

Once Nurul Haque used to cultivate different types of crops in his land all around the year.
26 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Building it right!

Bangladeshi architect Kashef Chowdhury, director of Bangladeshi architecture firm Urbana, has been announced the winner of the 2021 International Prize for the World’s Best New Building by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for his Friendship Hospital project.
26 January 2022, 18:00 PM

67% of all deaths in Bangladesh due to non-communicable diseases

Non-communicable diseases (NCD) are a growing health risk and matter of concern for Bangladesh, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday.
26 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Mayor does a first-hand inspection

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam went inside some newly built drains yesterday to inspect the construction work.
26 January 2022, 18:00 PM

If you find a doctor, consider yourself lucky

The block lettered sign on the ochre yellow building reads “Nazirabazar Matri Sadan”. Right beside it, a large banner reads -- “24-hour normal delivery service for expecting mothers”.
25 January 2022, 18:00 PM

1.7 million people, 0 public bus in Khulna city

There’s no city bus service for 1.7 million residents of Khulna for the last four years.
25 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Session jam only getting longer at DU

Students of different departments from the academic session of 2016-17 at Dhaka University, who are done with the final exams, are unable to apply for jobs due to delay in publishing results.
25 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Call of the wild

A new species of wild dogs has been spotted at Satchhari National Park in Habiganj’s Chunarughat. The species is listed as endangered under the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, according to IUCN Bangladesh official Simanta Dipu. 
24 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Home for Harijans

A section of the Harijan community has received modern residential flats from Barishal City Corporation (BCC).
24 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Short-term fix, long-term trouble?

On one hand, it’s good news that the government has taken up a river excavation project at Hari and Teka rivers to recede water from the waterlogged Bhabadah region.
24 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Sagar-Runi murder: 85 dates, still no end to probe

A Dhaka court yesterday again asked Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) to submit the probe report of a case filed over the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi by February 23.
24 January 2022, 18:00 PM

If only time was on their side

Sixty-two-year-old Anwar Hossain, a resident of Old Dhaka’s Hazaribagh, had tested positive for Covid-19 four days back. He was  receiving treatment at home.
24 January 2022, 18:00 PM

‘Where do we complain?’

The anti-sexual harassment cell at Jahangirnagar University remains almost non-functional even after a decade of inception.
24 January 2022, 18:00 PM