• Indomitable spirit

    Despite having multiple physical complications including visual impairment, 40-year-old Abdus Salam runs his family like any ordinary person without stooping low. Despite the cruxes, Salam is traversing the path of life with his head high.

  • Demolished brickfields resume operations

    Farmers of Purbo Saptana in Sadar upazila are getting frustrated as two illegal brickfields, demolished by the local administration about a year ago, have resumed their operation in full swing again.

  • Women get less than half of what men get

    Female workers in Lalmonirhat and Kurigram toiling hard on a chatal (paddy husking and drying yard) even braving inclement weather are being subjected to extreme discrimination in wages. 

  • Pabna farmers eye bumper yield

    Mohammad Kamruzzaman of Sujanagar upazila experienced a huge production cost in onion cultivation due to a high price of the seeds last year.

  • Bridge collapse brings woes to villagers

    More than 5,000 people of two unions in Barguna’s Taltali upazila are in great distress as the lone bridge connecting them has collapsed.

  • Four outlaws get life term for murder in Pabna

    A Pabna court yesterday sentenced four operatives of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) for killing a man in Santhia upazila in 2006.

  • Mobarak, with challenges, aces SSC

    Despite having no fingers to grip a pen, Mobarak Ali, 16, has passed last year’s SSC examination obtaining GPA-3.84. Despite an insurmountable odd, Mobarak clung to the hope to pursue his education. He would write with his leg up to class two. Later, he learnt how to write gripping pen with his wrists.

  • Tea workers passing hard days

    Over four hundred workers of Baikunthapur Tea Garden in Habiganj’s Madhabpur upazila with their family members have been passing days in hardship as they are not getting paid their wages or receiving rations for nearly a month.

  • Human-animal conflict: Nilgai dies in Thakurgaon after being chased by locals

    ​​​​​​​A Nilgai, the largest antelope in Asia, died after locals chased it at Muktarbasti village in Thakurgaon’s Ranishankoil upazila yesterday afternoon.

  • Mokbul’s magnificent cattle farm

    Holy Eid-ul-Azha is knocking on our doors. In Bangladesh, we celebrate this Islamic event of sacrifice, popularly known as Qurbani Eid. Half of the total

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