Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq has blamed the mosquito population inside houses for spreading chikungunya.

Six more children fell sick yesterday in Sitakunda's Tripura Para and were admitted to hospital immediately, but 51 children, hospitalised with similar symptoms, were apparently getting well.

Whatever happened, when a player like Tamim doesn't want to talk about it, we should respect it.

“We cannot go inside people's homes to stop mosquitoes from spreading.”

At least nine rivers, including the Jamuna, Teesta, Dharla, Surma and the Kushiyara, are flowing above the danger level, but experts say that will neither worsen nor prolong the current flooding. However, there is a possibility of a fresh flood if it rains heavily in the northeastern states of neighbouring India, they add.

Dhaka and Colombo are expected to strike nearly a dozen deals, including one for facilitating the plying of feeder vessels between the two South Asian nations, officials said yesterday.

Food Minister Qamrul Islam yesterday trashed some recent media reports on low food stock in public granaries, claiming that the

Seven more children became sick yesterday in Sitakunda's Tripura Para where nine others died this week showing similar symptoms.

Amid growing demands for the repeal of section 57 of the ICT Act, Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu in parliament yesterday

This year's unusual hike in rice prices caught Food Minister Qamrul Islam napping. Both Qamrul and the ministry he leads seemed ill prepared all along, but the minister has his own logic for that. “I'm no astrologer,” he told The Daily Star, "How could I possibly anticipate that there would be such a devastating flood?"

The recent floods have affected different people in different ways. The one thing that they all have in common though is an unending

Continuous downpours coupled with swelling in the major rivers like the Brahmaputra, Jamuna and Padma yesterday further worsened the flood situation in the northern districts.

Nine children have died, showing similar symptoms, in Tripura Para of Sitakunda in the last four days.

The debate on what was actually decided regarding the conservation of the Sundarbans at the 41st session of the World Heritage

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday told parliament that the purchase of two submarines from China would not elicit “negative

Eleven migrant labourers died of asphyxiation in Saudi Arabia yesterday in a fire that engulfed the windowless house they shared, Saudi

Former superintendent of police Babul Akter yesterday reiterated that he had no involvement in the murder of his wife Mahmuda

On the remote shoals in the Jamuna river in Gaibandha district, life is tough. Household dairy farms have long been pursued by village

MPs in the Parliament set an unusual example on Sunday by launching a blistering attack on the Supreme Court for scrapping the 16th

Ballooning bad loans are crippling not only the banking sector but also the national economy as a whole as the authorities fail to