The coronavirus pandemic has had a monumental impact on people's lives.

The importance of occupational therapy is gaining global attention as an integral part of rehabilitation of patients recovering from mental illness.

Considered one of the most dangerous drugs in the world, crystal meth is now spreading throughout the country and is being sold to upper-class youths through various social media platforms. The suspected entry point is believed to be Rohingya refugee camps.

A trawler capsized in the Aminbazar area of Turag river. So far 5 bodies have been recovered. Fire service and Coast Guard are conducting the rescue operation.

Even though there was some humanitarian support from the Bangladesh government and some local NGOs in Bhasan Char, there was uncertainty about the probability of UN involvement there. But with the UN signing an MoU with the Bangladesh government regarding humanitarian support for Rohingyas living in Bhasan Char, that uncertainty seems to have been resolved.

Two years ago on October 7, Abrar Fahad, a second year student of EEE department of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet), was brutally tortured and killed by some Bangladesh Chhatra League members of the same university -- sparking a movement to make the university free of political aggression and censorship.

Soybean meal, one of the main ingredients of feed for poultry, domestic animals and fish, is now 41 percent more expensive in Bangladesh.

From Egypt, two planes were leased. Buying would be more expensive, thus the two planes were leased. In addition to a colossal loss,  they were not able to generate any profit in five years. But a new aircraft could be purchased with that amount of money.

“Ekhon joubon jar, juddhe jabar tar shreshtho shomoy”

Registration of new buses and minibuses, the primary mode of public transportation in the country, has almost halved during the last one year. A single bus can carry passengers equivalent to fifteen to twenty private cars, and that makes them the preferable mode of public transport. However, in Dhaka private cars occupy the majority of the streets.

The halls of Dhaka University have come back to life after 18 months of silence.

The cyberspace of Bangladesh has become saturated with unregulated internet protocol television (IPTV) operating with a handful of staff and often earning money for airing particular news items or through blackmailing and extortion.

The honors 1st year admission exam for 2020-21 at Rajshahi University has been scheduled for the first week of October despite halls being closed.

For the last few years there has been a marked decrease in yield in agricultural land surrounding the Sitakunda shipbreaking yard in Chattogram. Local farmers have complained that most of the flowers in vegetable farms of the area are falling off before harvest time.

With an extension, Cox's Bazar airport runway is set to become the longest in Bangladesh. In addition, crores of taka are being spent to upgrade the airport to international standards.

Family members of Army and Air Force men, who were hanged, jailed and sacked in the name of preventing a mutiny on October 2, 1977, formed a human chain in front of the old Dhaka Central Jail yesterday, demanding posthumous trial of late president Ziaur Rahman.

Wastewater from factories has flooded the roads in Dhaka's Shampur industrial area. Garbage piled along the side of the road is once again spilling over. Residents in the area are at severe health risk.

The RT-PCR labs at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka have finally been set up, were given approval and have started testing outbound passengers for coronavirus.

In order to protect our rivers and waterbodies, the High Court had declared them as living entities. With pollution increasing each and every day, government bodies like BIWTA filling up rivers, and encroachment by unscrupulous business entities, our insincerity in protecting our rivers is apparent.

While the government is celebrating a step towards data protection with a law modelled after the EU’s data protection law, experts are expressing grave concern about it being another tool for surveillance and repression.