Just a few hours' rain, and the city's traffic system went haywire yesterday, causing immense public sufferings. The downpour along with a heavily overcast sky and occasional thunder and lightning started around 7:00am when students, officegoers and day labourers set out for their destinations.

Azimudin Ahmad, a former home secretary of the government, died due to a cardiac arrest yesterday. He was 79.

Today is the 12th death anniversary of Dr S Motahar Ali, founder chairman of M/S New Life and Co (Pvt) Ltd and Khadem of Hakkani

In addition to water-logging on some key city roads, vehicles passing through Gulshan-1, Gulshan-2, Rampura, Badda and Baridhara remained stuck for hours as police cleared route for passage of the prime minister.

Against the backdrop of outdated information on the number of child labourers in the country, speakers yesterday urged the

Most ministries and divisions of the government fail to utilise the full financial allocation made to them annually.

It is disquieting to note that the Carriage and Wagon Repair Workshop of Bangladesh Railway's East Zone has been in a ramshackle state for more than a decade.

Entrepreneurs belonging to third gender, who are often looked down upon, will get bank loans from now on under the central bank's financial inclusion drive.

Following the arrests of nine suspected operatives of banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji) and Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) the police has revealed the formation of an umbrella organisation 'Bangladesh Jihadi Group' that has come up with a new way to raise funds for religious militancy: through bank heists.

The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Control, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) has formulated a special cereal made from local ingredients that will help address severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in children.

Joynal Abedin, additional principal information officer of Press Information department, has been appointed as press secretary to the President.

AH Abdur Rahman, an architect and engineer, died due to old-age complications at Apollo Hospital in the capital early Monday.

Jatiya Pratibandi Forum (JPF), in a press conference on Sunday, highlighted that there has not been any significant allocation for development of people with disabilities in the national budget...

Here is an example of how to keep public and journalists better informed.

Nineteen hundred sixty-five was a year for the people of Bangladesh, West Bengal and northeastern region of India to remember for all the wrong reasons. After the Indo-Pak war that year, road, rail and waterway connections between the regions were cut off permanently. After Bangladesh's independence in 1971, only the inland water communications with India reopened.

Scientists at the icddr,b have developed a special food rich in protein and micronutrients that can help recover children suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM).

“The prime minister [Modi] has not been politically correct, politically honest in the [Dhaka] visit... He is expected to show more grace.”

Indian PM Narendra Modi must have left Dhaka a satisfied man achieving demonstrative success in clinching the deals with Bangladesh that India had been striving for.

The patients at Chittagong Medical College Hospital have gone through untold sufferings due to lack of electricity for three days, as the hospital administration failed to repair...

Sheikh Razzak Ali, former speaker of Jatiya Sangsad, died of old age ailments in his Khulna residence yesterday afternoon, aged 87.