Fitness trackers are so cool, right? At the very least, they offer information on your heart rate, oxygen levels and how active you have been all day. Important stuff considering our mostly static lifestyle. We ride the rickshaws, we ride the elevators and we plop ourselves down in front of a desk/PC/smartphone. We don’t move. And for the last six months, those who had the privilege to stay/study/work from home, we’ve never been more inactive.

For over a hundred years, Birchandra Ganapathagar (public library) has been a centre for educational, cultural, intellectual and socio-political activities in Cumilla city.

A couple was found dead at their house in Dhaka’s Dhamrai upazila yesterday morning.

The Supreme Court yesterday fixed September 21 for hearing a petition filed challenging a High Court order that granted anticipatory bail to Toufique Imrose Khalidi, editor-in-chief of bdnews24.com, in a corruption case.

Marking the occasion of World Physiotherapy Day, which was on Sunday, National Assembly speaker, lawmakers and national medical leaders on Wednesday called for the introduction of first-class physiotherapist posts at upazila level.

The High Court yesterday stayed the Bangladesh copyright office order for a month, that granted copyright of 260 books of wildly popular espionage-thriller series “Masud Rana” and 50 of “Kuasha” to its ghostwriter Sheikh Abdul Hakim.

The High Court has issued four directives for the lower courts concerned over cancellation of the bail granted by this court to the accused and ordered the Supreme Court registrar general to issue a circular to this effect.

Power supply in Mymensingh district was disrupted for nearly eight hours after a fire broke out at a sub-station of Kewatkhali Power Grid yesterday morning.

Dhaka University (DU) authorities have found proof of plagiarism in a joint article of two of its teachers and formed a tribunal to determine their punishment.

Potters, musical instrument makers, idol artisans as well as folk singers across the country -- who rely on various Bengali festivals -- are living through hardship as their income fell down drastically due to coronavirus, which brought all social and traditional events nearly to an end.

Detective Branch of police claim to have arrested two women from Savar for their alleged involvement into abducting a three-year-old boy from the capital’s Mirpur last Saturday.

Tinni Begum had no words to spare yesterday -- as she lost six family members within the span of just a few hours.

Sylhet City Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury has tested positive for Covid-19.

Power supply in Mymensingh district was disrupted after a fire broke out at a sub-station of Kewatkhali Power Grid.

Two more persons, who suffered severe burns in the blast at a Narayanganj mosque, died at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka. With them, 31 people have so far died from the tragic incident while the condition of the others admitted at the hospital remains critical.

The public administration ministry recently asked all secretaries to instruct their subordinates to make sure that without prior approval of superiors concerned, no public servant writes on or talks to the media.

A mobile court yesterday disconnected around 1,000 illegal gas connections to households at Johorchanda area of Ashulia in Savar.

A Bangladeshi migrant worker was rescued in a frantic effort by firefighters in Singapore after he got stuck on a tower crane high off the ground on Monday.

Although the government has permitted reopening of hotels, resorts and amusement parks since August, tour and hotel operators around Dhaka are still struggling to run their businesses due to low number of holidaymakers.

The government has extended the deadline of enrolling students to class XI and fixed the highest ceiling of the admission fees.