A total of 120 fruit-laden trucks, which were imported from Bhutan, remain stuck at Burimari land port in Lalmonirhat due to an indefinite strike enforced by truck, covered-van and tank lorry workers in 16 northern districts for the second consecutive day today.

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) urges the parliamentarians of Bangladesh to stand against and stop a new law that puts girls at greater risk of child marriage in the country.

Polls officials have, meanwhile, only verbally warned some councillor candidates without taking any deterring action against them and, in case of mayoral aspirants, failed to do even that.

In a recent daylong workshop held at the Dhaka Divisional Commissioner's office, the women vice-chairpersons from 69 upazilas of Dhaka division took part to vent their frustration about non-distribution of the 3 percent budget.

Freedom fighters of Gaibandha have urged the government to declare December 1 'Freedom Fighter's Day' to honour thousands of freedom fighters who fought for the country's independence during the Liberation War.

Raj Punnah, the biggest and most colourful traditional festival of the Bohmong Circle, will begin in Bandarban on December 21.

Illegal crushing of sugarcane by power crushers in the district is going on unchecked that may hamper sugar production in achieving the target.

Cotton farming on vast char lands along the Teesta river basin areas in Sundarganj upazila of the district is gaining popularity as the local farmers are showing much interest in cultivating the item.

The number of total TIN (Tax Identification Number) holders in the country stands at 24,41,572 as the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has registered 10,00,000 fresh TINs so far this year.

The Saudi Arabian Embassy in Dhaka will increase workforce at its local office for smooth operation of issuing more work visas for the Bangladeshis, says Saudi Ambassador Abdullah HM Al-Mutairi.

Saima Wazed Hossain, the chairperson of Shuchona Foundation and the National Advisory Committee on Autism in Bangladesh, is to attend an award distribution ceremony of the "UNESCO-Emir Jaber Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah Prize for Digital Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities".

As part of worldwide activism— 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign --speaker of Bangladesh’s Parliament, captain of Bangladesh’s Cricket Team, and thirteen ambassadors including US Ambassador Marcia Bernicat and other dignitaries launched a video today calling on people to eliminate gender-based violence.

He laid himself down flat on the railway tracks with a train slowly approaching; seemingly it was a suicide attempt but all of a sudden he was dragged away by an on duty gateman.

Few can deny the poetic beauty of kans grass, locally called kashful. When the monsoon recedes and grass colonises newly exposed

The ongoing movement for nationalisation of Fulbaria Degree College in the district has been postponed for one month, following discussion between the representatives of agitating teachers and students, and the political leaders and administration officials.

The much-talked about Bangladesh Bank (BB) cyber heist of USD 81 million entered a new twist as Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) of the Philippines has stated that there is no need for it to return USD 2.7 million as it was “negligence” on the part of BB that led to the heist in the first place.

We, along with the rest of the world, have been witnessing the resurgence of violence against Rohingya in Myanmar recently that has led to the displacement of some 30,000 of them.

The Supreme Court starts hearing the appeals of two Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji) death row convicts including its chief Mufti Abdul Hannan against the High Court verdict in a case filed for the 2004 grenade attack on the then UK envoy in Bangladesh.

In Munshiganj is a longstanding tradition of constructing houses uniquely of tin and wood. Such houses which are to be found across

Santals in Gobindaganj are worried about getting jobs again in Shahebganj sugarcane farm, where they had been working almost regularly prior to beginning a movement for return of what they said was their forefathers' lands acquired by the government.