Barguna finds itself in a unique position regarding its healthcare services. While the technology and facilities in the local hospitals are regularly updated, the lack of awareness about available healthcare services, as well as an absence of adequate human resources, have created a vacuum.

Erosion hits hard the riverside villages in Mirzapur upazila in Tangail as the water levels of Jhenai and Bangshi rivers increase due to onrush of water from upstream and non-stop heavy rains for the last few days, creating panic among the people.

The High Court today ordered authorities to conduct three separate inquiries into allegations that a 60-year-old union parishad chairman in Patuakhali married a 14-year-old girl at an arbitration.

While the government is preparing to shut the country down for at least a week from tomorrow, in its attempt to contain the coronavirus transmission,

“Without his income, we are powerless,” says Nasima Begum, 30, a resident of the Kholpatua village in Pirojpur, when speaking about her husband,

A footbridge on Bairan river at Gopalpur municipality in Tangail has recently collapsed, causing sufferings of the local people.

Eleven trees have been cut down inside the Ajmeriganj Upazila Health Complex in Habiganj without any approval from the forest department.

The bridge on Mohim Khal, a canal in Kalmakanda upazila of Netrakona, is used by about 10 thousand inhabitants of 20 villages to communicate with the district and upazila headquarters.

Two people were detained and fined Tk 5,000 each by a mobile court for capturing two Ganges river dolphins in the Brahmaputra river in Chilmari upazila of Kurigram.

For the third consecutive day, the workers of Luhaiuni Tea Garden, in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar, staged demonstrations on Thursday, to press home their 11-point demands that include job reinstatement of a fellow worker.

Time and again, the youths rose to the occasion when the country needed them the most. This time around, when the Coronavirus pandemic has been sweeping through the bordering districts, eight youths from Chulkathi area of Bagerhat Sadar upazila have come to the rescue of affected locals.

Since the coronavirus pandemic hit the country in March last year, the officials, staffers and miners of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited (BCMCL) have been virtually leading a confined life inside company premises to prevent the spread of the highly transmissible contagious viral infection in the mining complex.

The long wait of the char people for electricity in Gaibandha’s four upazilas has just prolonged as many electric poles set up by the district palli bidyut samity (rural electrification board) have been engulfed by furious Brahmaputra. The river erosion has taken a serious turn in the district since last month.

A leader of Sramik League died on Tuesday night from stab injuries he had sustained during violence over Madaberchar Union Parishad election, held on June 21, in Shibchar upazila of Madaripur.

A 14-year-old boy died yesterday when his father hacked him with a sharp weapon.

The recommendation made by a parliamentary body to take necessary measures to find alternatives to a female UNO’s presence during the guard of honour given to freedom fighters after their deaths will not be accepted as it contradicts the constitution, said Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque today.

As many as seven concrete bridges built on iron infrastructure have become the cause of great distress for about 50 thousand people in four unions of Amtali upazila under Barguna.

‘Camellia Khola Akash School’ (Camellia Open Sky School), an innovative initiative of the Bangladesh Tea Board (BTB), is eying to create expert tea farmers, develop the skills of small-scale tea farmers and flourish tea cultivation in five northern districts including Panchagarh, Thakurgaon, Nilphamary, Lalmonirhat and Dinajpur.

As many as 30 school children from Rakhine community in Kalapara upazila received bicycles from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

With Covid-19 infections surging in bordering districts in the country, Joypurhat police have launched an ‘Oxygen Bank’ to stand by Covid patients facing financial difficulties.