In Lalmonirhat, over a thousand growers of jujube, a small fruit known locally as boroi, are upset over the low prices of the fruit this year. They have to sell the produce for less than the production cost in the local market, resulting in their losing interest in farming the fruit in future, growers said.

Two days ago, Ashis Nandy, the political psychologist, social theorist, critic, and a trained clinical psychologist...

The authority is yet to start repair work of Sona Masjid Parjatan Motel in Shibganj upazila under Chapainawabganj, three years after men

WITH the fiscal year crossing its halfway mark, discussions on the implementation status of annual development programmes (ADP)

THE 21st Conference of Parties (COP21), which was successfully concluded in December 2015 with the adoption of the Paris

It is perhaps a primal instinct in all animals, to exercise control and power over the weak and the helpless. It is pretty much how the world has worked in the last few thousand years. Even among the earliest humans, it was the stronger group or tribe that dominated the physically less able, sometimes even

Use of herbal pesticide developed by a local farmer is gaining popularity among the farmers of Katabari union in Gobindaganj upazila

Different 'black spots' on Panchagarh-Dinajpur highway in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila see frequent accidents as work for construction of new jersy barriers (generally called road dividers) has remained half-done for around six months, making the road too narrow and risky.

German painters are, therefore, more likely to paint death as a man while their Russian counterparts, as a woman.

Cadres of outlawed parties killed at least 14 people since January 1 in Kushtia, Jhenidah, Meherpur and Chuadanga districts.

While in many parts of the country hazardous tobacco farming is on the increase, from Jhenidah there is good news. Government officials and civil society activists have achieved considerable success in convincing the district's farmers to say no to tobacco.

An op-ed can never afford a fiction. But then when real times across the globe are closer to fiction, one has the freedom to add colour and paint the canvas to share with the readers.

A SMS notification at two in the dead of the night would obviously, you think, be a text message of utmost importance, probably (pray

BRAVING the horrendous city traffic, I arrived at the 2016 Dhaka Art Summit (DAS) at Shilpakala Academy on a Sunday afternoon.

Around 10,000 people of eight villages of Athorogachia union in Amtali upazila under Barguna district are suffering as the work for

A large number of boys and girls of two high schools, inspired by their headmasters, joined the 1952 Language Movement in the then

ALL bets are off - by winning New Hampshire's 2016 Democratic presidential primary, Bernie Sanders has done what was once

AT the risk of sounding “anti-growth” and “anti-exports” – and heck, of damaging the “image” of the country (because, apparently,

Guardians formed a human chain in Goddimari area under Hatibandha upazila of the district yesterday, demanding removal of the

Officials of a cooperative firm in Dumki upazila under the district have disappeared after embezzling several crore taka from over a