Commentary by Mahfuz Anam: Sheikh Hasina’s ‘finest hour’

Borrowing from the title of the second volume of Winston Churchill’s six-part history of the Second World War, I would like to term the completion of the Padma Bridge as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s “finest hour”.
24 June 2022

Boy killed in landslide

A 12-year-old boy was killed in a landslide triggered by heavy rain in Chattogram city’s Sholoshahar early yesterday.
20 June 2022

‘Let’s go home; let’s go to Myanmar’

Thousands of Rohingyas yesterday held a rally in Ukhia of Cox’s Bazar -- to tell the world that they want to go back to their homeland Myanmar, marking World Refugee Day.
19 June 2022

Covid positivity rate highest in 16 weeks

As the country’s Covid-19 positivity rate yesterday stood at 5.76 percent -- the highest since February 22, Health Minister Zahid Maleque urged people to take the vaccine booster shots.
16 June 2022

15 killed in South Africa bus collision

Fifteen people were killed and 37 injured yesterday when a bus and a truck collided on a South African highway near the capital Pretoria, an emergency services spokesman told AFP.
10 June 2022

WB revises down growth forecast for Bangladesh

Taking into account the Ukraine war, the World Bank reduced Bangladesh’s economic growth projection to 6.7 percent for the next fiscal year from its January forecast of 6.9 percent.
7 June 2022

Their sense of duty prevailed over all else

For many young people facing unemployment, becoming a firefighter is a dream.
6 June 2022

Street fighting rages in Severodonetsk

Ukrainian and Russian troops fought street-by-street to win control of the industrial city of Severodonetsk yesterday in the pivotal battle of the Kremlin’s eastern Ukraine offensive.
6 June 2022

Over 90,000 deaths in Bangladesh caused by indoor air pollution in 2019

You are vulnerable to toxic air even when you stay home. 
4 June 2022

Abdur Rob Rajshahi's best school teacher for third time

Abdur Rob Siddiqui has been adjudged as the best school teacher in Rajshahi division for a third time.
2 June 2022

Russia gains more ground in east Ukraine

Russian forces were assaulting the Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk yesterday after saying they had captured the nearby rail hub of Lyman as Moscow pressed its offensive in the eastern Donbas.
28 May 2022

Monkeypox worry: Self-isolate if you have fever, rash

Instructing all international airports and land ports to strengthen monkeypox screening, health officials yesterday asked those suffering from fever and rash to self-isolate and contact nearby public hospitals for tests. 
22 May 2022

Kyiv rules out ceasefire

Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or any territorial concessions to Moscow while Russia intensified its attack in the east and south and stopped sending gas to Finland in its latest response to Western sanctions.
22 May 2022

Woman harassed at railway station ‘for her outfit’

Unidentified people assaulted a woman and her two friends at the Narsingdi Railway Station on Wednesday morning because of the clothes she was wearing, which the attackers had termed “indecent”.
20 May 2022

SP fired over covering up gold recovery

The Superintendent of Tourist Police in Sylhet Region, Altaf Hossain, has been terminated for his role in concealing 1.4kg of gold recovered in Satkhira in 2016, when he was the Satkhira SP.
20 May 2022

It’s harvest time

Farming families across the country are in different stages of Boro harvesting. In the low-lying plains, known as the haor region, farmers start harvesting paddy
20 May 2022

Ex-MP jailed for 7yrs in graft case

BNP leader and former MP Noor Afroz Begum Jyoti was awarded with seven-year imprisonment in a graft case yesterday.
19 May 2022

Man kills child, then self

A man hacked to death a nine-year-old son of the Dheukhali Union Parishad chairman in Faridpur’s Sadarpur in the latter’s house yesterday.
18 May 2022

Russia lost a third of its forces in Ukraine

Russia has lost around a third of the ground forces it deployed to Ukraine and its offensive in the Donbas region “has lost momentum and fallen significantly behind schedule”, British military intelligence said yesterday.
15 May 2022

Importing wheat from India: Govt prepping for G2G deal

Bangladesh is preparing to strike a deal to import wheat from India, said food ministry Secretary Mosammat Nazmunara Khanum.
15 May 2022