The Ministry of Home Affairs has taken several decisions to ensure security during the upcoming national election.
The usual bustle was missing at Milestone School and College yesterday. There were no students running across the playground, no morning assembly, and no classroom chatter.
Students, parents recall near escapes
Barely 300 metres from Milestone School and College, Sharif Ul Anwar Sazzan was waiting for his son Srijon Sattik, a sixth grader, to come out so they could return home for lunch.
Parul wails in anguish as she searches for her 3rd grader daughter Nusrat
The Election Commission yesterday revoked the registrations of all 96 local organisations that monitored the 12th national election.
In its application for registration with the Election Commission, Janatar Bangladesh Party has said its central office is located on the 12th floor of Darus Salam Arcade near the capital’s Paltan intersection.
The Election Commission is likely to have a set of guidelines in its electoral code of conduct for the use of social media in campaigning.
With tears in her eyes, Noorjahan was looking towards the hospital’s ward. Kamala Khatoon, her mother, was fighting for her life at the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery
Students recognised for their outstanding results in O- and A-level exams were buzzing with excitement yesterday. They said they wanted to become decent human beings and work for the country.
Nearly half of the country’s women suffer from malnutrition, with the majority of them being overweight, according to a recent study.
Seven Bangalee students have been selected under the “tribal” quota in the recent MBBS admission test, raising eyebrows and concerns about irregularities.
Microplastic particles are accumulating in riverbed sediments that entered Bangladesh through India’s Ganges river, reveals a recent study published in Elsevier’s ecotoxicology and environmental safety journal.
Children and elderly are mostly flocking to the hospitals to get treatment for winter-related diseases like pneumonia, asthma and diarrhoea.
The United Medical College Hospital in Dhaka’s Satarkul, where a five-year-old child was given anaesthetic for a circumcision procedure on December 31, has been operating for about a year without registration.
The Covid-19 infection rate has been on a sudden rise in the country over the past few days but the reason is yet to be confirmed.
In winter, people love to indulge in the season’s delicacies, raw date juice being one of those.
With an oxygen mask on and a cannula attached to one hand, three-year-old Farhana Akhtar was lying in her bed in the pneumonia ward of Dhaka Shishu Hospital and Institute, still struggling to breathe.
