People from all walks of life including students yesterday vowed to uproot drug abuse from society at a drug destroying programme on the Thakurgaon Government Boys' High School premises.

A brilliant student's dream for pursuing medical education faces uncertainty due to poverty.

European Parliament calls upon the government to form a "strong" election commission for the next national elections in which people will have the full confidence.

An estimated 4, 38,800 premature babies are born every year in the country. Of them, 23,600 babies die facing breathing and feeding difficulties, and low birth weight due to premature births, according to Save the Children.

Primary School Certificate (PSC) and its madrasa equivalent Ebtedayee terminal examinations will begin from November 20 with more than 32 lakh fifth graders expected to appear at the tests.

The continuing intra party violence that is taking place within the Awami League and the incidents of death and destruction resulting from clashes between ruling party members is a bad example for both society and politics and is creating an environment of lawlessness that is worrying.

It is a common sight to see trucks plying on the roads and highways in the country with rods that protrude dangerously out of the backs of these vehicles, as shown in a picture printed in our paper on November 16.

Pursuing primary education in Moulvibazar's Rajnagar upazila is an increasingly risky venture. Classroom buildings in six primary

Bangladesh will be the number one in achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal says.

We are happy to see that the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has taken steps to remove illegal structures and wrongfully parked lorries on one portion of the Jatrabari-Kanchpur highway after we ran a story on the issue on November 7.

The photograph of bitter gourd plants grown in the traffic island in a part of Dhaka city is indeed heartening.

Women farm labourers in the district are being deprived of their right to get the same wages as male labourers.

A total of 18, 973 candidates have come out successful in the 13th National Teachers' Registration and Certification Authority (Ntrca) written tests, according to a NTRCA press release.

After the rampage and arson they faced, how are the Santals passing their days in Gaibandha? What are their mental traumas? How can they forget the flames and marauding crowd plundering their homes? How can they forget the dark night full of horrors?

We are saddened by the news that the two committees in charge of probing the Nasirnagar arson think the tragedy was avoidable.

The frightening image of the body of a demolished truck – the result of a head on collision with another truck- in yesterday's paper, invokes the horror of brutal, untimely deaths that we must witness every single day because of road accidents.

The views of the youths offered through a poll undertaken by the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers Annual Survey hit the nail in the head, pinpointing exactly where the problem lies in the way of our all-round development.

An increasing number of wild animals living in the Lawachhara National Park are being run over by vehicles plying on a road passing through the forest, according to a report in this newspaper.

It is surprising to think that the bustling trade in narcotics at Bastuhara Colony and adjacent Barisal slum in Patiya Chittagong is situated

Confirming fears of activists who had warned about blanket arrests in the wake of the attacks on the Hindu community in Nasirnagar,