To celebrate the 75th birthday of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the Ministry of Shipping and BIWTA organised Nouka Baich, a traditional boat race on the capital's Buriganga river using a special kind of long, narrow.

The government is planning to bring 80% of the country’s population under Covid-19 vaccination, and has announced that two crore individuals will be given vaccines each month.

The much-awaited RT-PCR lab has been installed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. But it did not bring an end to the distress of UAE-bound expats. Many have complained that they are not getting any service at the lab.

Payra Bridge is finally going to open to traffic after a 5-year extension of the project deadline and with Tk 1 ,000 crore in extra spending. Commuters will no longer have to board ferries to go from Barishal to Kuakata or Patuakhali by road.

Harun Ar Rashid, a banker by profession, has set up 11 libraries in salons in 11 districts of the country at his own expense. His goal is to set up salon libraries in every district of the country.

Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka finally got an RT-PCR lab after much uncertainty faced by UAE-bound expats.

According to Bangladesh Bank, in the last 2.5 years, the e-commerce sector in Bangladesh has grown 10 fold. Between 2019 and 2020, the amount of transactions of any online-based business has grown double, triple or even four times. But the population that had just recently gotten used to online transactions were jolted by the news of e-commerce companies being exposed, one after another, for various irregularities. Lakhs of online customers are uncertain about hundreds of crores of taka tied up in these online platforms.

Karam festival -- centred around the worship of trees -- is celebrated by indigenous communities in the Bangla month of Bhadra.

Aviation security of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport has seized foreign currency worth Tk 12.5 crore while it was being smuggled in a manner that has not been seen before.

The government has introduced a software named “Special Branch Firearms Management System” to automate firearms sale and licensing that can allegedly reduce abuse of firearms.

Despite spending double the estimated cost, and an additional six years of construction, the Airport-Gazipur BRT project is still at least a year away from completion. Why has the project failed to be completed even after doubling the cost and time?

Vegetable saplings are being produced in greenhouses by drip irrigation using coco peat instead of soil. An organisation called Maxim Agro has built this farm in Churamonkati in Jashore.

Due to continuous loss in sugar mills, the government has declared closure of the production of 6 out of 15 sugar mills of the country. Because of the halt in production, sugarcane farmers depending on these mills do not know what to do with their produce.

Last May, after the spike in Covid-19 cases, the UAE put a ban on flights from Bangladesh.

Where once ponds, lakes and rivers of Bangladesh were full to the brim with fish, species like Bhangon Bata, Nandi, Mohashol, Khorka or Khorika, Goalpara Puia, Pipla Shol or Tila Shol, Kala Pabda, Baghair and Chenua have now became nearly extinct.

There is no alternative to masks in preventing coronavirus. A recent research has proven that the possibility of coronavirus contamination can be prevented upto 34% by using masks alone. This research by Stanford Medicine School and Yale University was conducted in Bangladesh.

Every year in the west Sheota area of Manikganj, Bhela Bhashani festival celebrates the life of Khaja Khwaja Khijir.

Ferdous Alam Firoz completed his graduation exams without ever using his hands to write.  Unable to use his hands from birth, he learnt to use his mouth to write when he was just in class three. Now he has completed his graduation and has enrolled in his postgraduate program.

On August 3, fish seller Badal Mia was starting his day in the capital’s Karwan Bazar just like any other day when a video sent to his IMO account changed everything.

Dhaka University authorities chopped down a 30-year-old tree in the Arts Building premises located in front of Proctor’s office.