One needs no soil, no open field to grow grass. An indoor facility with a hydroponic fodder unit can provide any commercial dairy farm with enough green grass to meet the nutrition needs of the animals.

Just-banned militant outfit Ansar al Islam, said to be the Bangladesh chapter of al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), has decided to change its recruitment strategy fearing that the online exposure of recruiters would help law enforcers track down its leaders and activists.

Three people were killed in a "terrorist" attack in the heart of London yesterday when a man mowed down pedestrians on a bridge, then stabbed a police officer outside parliament before being shot dead.

The latest World Happiness Index did not get serious attention here. But the index offers food for thought for the policymakers.

Indian Army chief Gen Bipin Rawat arrives in Dhaka on March 30 on a two-day visit to discuss bilateral defence cooperation with top Bangladesh officials.

Bangladesh is among the countries with the lowest level of wastewater treatment in the Asia Pacific region.

Fourteen-month-old Afrin was lying on a bed at the neurosurgery ward of Dhaka Medical College Hospital. With a worried face, her mother Jesmin Begum kept staring at her. Sitting on an adjacent bed, Afrin's father Rintu Qazi looked hapless.

Death row convict Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islam Bangladesh (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan would seek presidential clemency, according to the jail authorities.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced five people, including a bench assistant (peshkar) of another court, to 14 years' imprisonment each for issuing fake bail orders forging signature of a judge of the latter court.

“What really struck me was when old men started to break down in tears in front of me and sob…[They were] telling me they've seen their whole family killed in front of their eyes."

The government is embarking on the largest health sector programme, worth Tk 1,15,486 crore to be spent over the next five years, with special focus on diseases like cancer, heart ailments, diabetes, and improvements to health governance.

Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan, who yesterday reclaimed the top spot of the ICC Test all-rounders rankings from India's Ravichandran Ashwin, was hailed as 'the wonder of cricket world' by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The much-awaited Teesta water sharing treaty might not be inked during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to India next month, said Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud yesterday.

The man who according to the Rapid Action Battalion blew himself up at its camp in the capital's Ashkona is not Jewel Rana Olive of Faridpur's Bhanga as reported by some newspapers.

However insignificant, the quality of Buriganga water is showing signs of improvement.

Even three months ago, Josna Biswas of Chalna municipality in Khulna's Dakop upazila had to walk 1.5km twice a day to fetch two pitchers of water from the municipality pond.

At the end of his ruthless massacre and war against an unarmed people, General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi who led the Pakistan army in the killings, described the genocide of Bangalis in his book “Betrayal of East Pakistan” as “a display of stark cruelty more merciless than the massacres at Bukhara and Baghdad by Chengis Khan and Halaku khan or Jallianwala Bagh by the British General Dyer.”

Two agreements and seven memorandums of understanding on defence cooperation would figure prominently among more than 40 deals expected to be signed between Bangladesh and India during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Delhi visit next month.

Bangladeshis are happier than Indians and Sri Lankans, according to World Happiness Report 2017 released yesterday coinciding with the United Nations' International Day of Happiness.

Sohel Hossain Montu, who according to his family was picked up along with Hanif Mridha from Narayanganj's Siddhirganj late last month, was still missing till last night.