The pandemic’s effects on middle and lower income people’s finances come with a lot of invisible struggles. For example, it has become a severe impediment for underprivileged girls and women’s menstrual health. As their expendable money has come down, they struggled to afford sanitary napkins and other feminine hygiene products.

At Babuganj upazila’s Mirganj river, a three-storey ship was spotted anchored at the dock during a recent visit by this correspondent. What seemed like a passenger vessel at first glance turned out to be a floating medical facility that treats some 90-150 patients a day.

The first time I tried birding at night was several years ago in Rajshahi. My friend Niaz and I had spent a day cruising the Padma searching its chars for birds.

A fire that broke out at a 10-storey building in Dhaka's Konapara area has been brought under control.

For doctor consultation, telemedicine and appointment of other healthcare services, United Hospital appointment desk is functional round the week, says a press release.

Vistara Airlines, a joint venture of India’s Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines, yesterday started operating regular flights between Dhaka and Delhi.

Family members, relatives and villagers yesterday urged the government to take initiative to try the accused of Jewel murder at special tribunal.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed two cases against former chief engineer of Roads and Highways Department Mohammad Jawed Alam and his wife Anwara Begum for amassing about Tk 3.09 crore illegally.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday slammed his ruling party counterpart Obaidul Quader for questioning the existence of his party.

The 22-day ban on hilsa catching was a success, officials of Department of Fisheries (DoF) claimed after the ban period’s end yesterday.

A single dose of crystal meth costs around Tk 10,000 to 12,000.

Col (retd) Shawkat Ali, former deputy speaker, of the parliament, was put on life support at Dhaka Combined Military Hospital (CMH) yesterday.

Due to lack of education, indigenous people living both in plainlands and hill tracts are continuously being deprived of job opportunities, which is pushing them to ultra poverty, a study has found.

Experts at an online seminar yesterday warned against the dangerous practice of uncontrolled sand-mining, cautioning that this is destroying our rivers.

Jagannath University (JnU) student Tithy Sarker, who has remained missing for 10 days, was sued under the Digital Security Act yesterday for making “derogatory” comments about religion on Facebook.

More than half of road crash victims are between 21 and 40 years old, the most productive segment of the population, according to Accident Research Institute (ARI) of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet).

Back in the early 2000’s I used to head out to Eastern Plaza in Dhaka with my pocket full of hard earned savings to buy games to play. Cracked games mostly and the occasional originals for consoles shared by friends. Wow, those were expensive. And when all else failed, it was time to head out to the shady, makeshift, sweat smelling street corner shops with arcade machines. That still cost money. Two taka per game would add up to many, many ‘monies’.

Different areas in Dhaka will experience eight-hour power outage in turn over this month, starting from today till November 30.

Jagannath University (JnU) student Tithy Sarker has been sued under the Digital Security Act for making "derogatory" comments about religion on Facebook.

A tribunal in Dhaka today concluded recording statements of witnesses in a case filed over rape of a Dhaka University (DU) student in the capital's Kurmitola earlier this year.