The number of registered vehicles across the country -- including the capital -- witnessed a sharp decline last year, mainly due to economic slowdown induced by Covid-19 .

Like many, Ahsan Habib from Brahmanbaria dreamt of a better future abroad.

Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Oikya Parishad yesterday set an ultimatum for the government, till January 18, to take steps to preserve the house of anti-British revolutionary Jatindra Mohan Sengupta in Chattogram.

After many attempts, police in a drive yesterday arrested listed criminal and land grabber Nur Alam Nuru, who stands accused in at least 30 cases, from Noakhali.

Some 732 workers died in events such as accidents, torture and labour unrest last year, according to a new study of Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies (BILS).

At least 6,686 people were killed and 8,600 were injured in 4,891 road accidents across the country in 2020, according to Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity.

Days after US President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol in protest of Joe Biden’s election as new president -- through what they claim to be “electoral fraud” -- US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller issued a statement for Bangladeshis.

Prime Minister’s ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy yesterday said everyone has the right to freedom of speech, but that freedom ends when someone spreads falsehoods that end up hurting others.

Despite the closure of educational institutions and absence of public gatherings amid the pandemic, 626 children were reportedly raped between January and December last year, revealed Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) at an online press conference yesterday.

Acting editor of the Daily Sangbad Khandaker Muniruzzaman will remain an inspiration for the next generation for his devotion to living a life upholding progressive ideology, values, secular politics, democracy and freedom of speech.

Two women were killed as a truck hit a battery-run three-wheeler on Bogura-Nagarbari highway at Parkola in Sirajganj yesterday morning.

Many Awami League rebel candidates for Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) councillor race are determined to contest the polls, despite the party’s strict order of not doing so.

A teenage boy was found dead in a pond near his house in Gazaria upazila of Munshiganj yesterday, 18 days after he had reportedly gone missing.

Antigen testing for Covid-19 has started in Chattogram from Tuesday on a test basis. Initially, the service is limited only to Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID) laboratory at Fauzderhat, said officials of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Most days of the week, Jagannath University student Ayesha Nijhum is seen sitting in an open field near her house in Gazipur’s Kapasia. The second-year student of management attends online classes on her cellphone for about two hours and prefers the field over her house due to the better signal reception in the open area.

Over a century ago, in late 1913, Teddy Roosevelt went on an expedition in Brazil to navigate the mysterious and uncharted river called the River of Doubt.

The government is planning population density zoning in the capital based on the size of an area and civic facilities, said LGRD Minister Md Tajul Islam yesterday.

Lawmakers at a meeting of the parliamentary standing committee on agriculture ministry yesterday expressed their indignation and doubt over the ministry’s claim that 4,390 “family nutrition gardens” have been set up at different unions across the country.

Zoom- probably this word this year is equivalent to what Facebook was back in 2012. Thanks to the pandemic, zoom call has become a household staple.

A Dhaka court yesterday asked Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) again to submit by February 3 probe reports of two sedition cases filed against Hefajat-e-Islam chief Junayed Babunagari and two other leaders.