Admission seekers and guardians from across the country are troubled by accommodation crisis as RU authorities decided to conduct the exam without opening the halls. Lots of students have taken refuge in railway platforms and in mosques.

Hindus across Bangladesh are celebrating Mahalaya, the auspicious occasion that heralds the arrival of Goddess Durga, today.

The halls of Dhaka University have come back to life after 18 months of silence.

Barisal University's residential halls have reopened after being closed for 18 months, owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. Students have gradually started returning to halls.

Around a hundred families in Munshiganj are still keeping the tradition of mat, locally called pati, weaving alive. Each and every mat has a story woven in itself. And it appears as if these tales are at risk of vanishing forever.

Mohib Ullah, one of the most prominent advocates of Rohingya repatriation and the representative of Rohingya refugees’ struggle for identity before the international audience, was shot dead in his office in Kutupalong camp.

Many citizens have lost their lands to Gazipur city corporation. The owners of the lands have complained that workers of the city corporation started demolishing structures without acquiring the land first.

The cyberspace of Bangladesh has become saturated with unregulated internet protocol television (IPTV) operating with a handful of staff and often earning money for airing particular news items or through blackmailing and extortion.

Workers of Opex & Sinha Group in Kanchpur have surrounded Shromo Bhaban demanding payment of arrears.

The honors 1st year admission exam for 2020-21 at Rajshahi University has been scheduled for the first week of October despite halls being closed.

For the last few years there has been a marked decrease in yield in agricultural land surrounding the Sitakunda shipbreaking yard in Chattogram. Local farmers have complained that most of the flowers in vegetable farms of the area are falling off before harvest time.

With an extension, Cox's Bazar airport runway is set to become the longest in Bangladesh. In addition, crores of taka are being spent to upgrade the airport to international standards.

Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah came home in Lambashia camp in Ukhia after his Esha prayers on Wednesday night. His wife, Nasima, asked him whether he wanted to eat something.

Family members of Army and Air Force men, who were hanged, jailed and sacked in the name of preventing a mutiny on October 2, 1977, formed a human chain in front of the old Dhaka Central Jail yesterday, demanding posthumous trial of late president Ziaur Rahman.

Wastewater from factories has flooded the roads in Dhaka's Shampur industrial area. Garbage piled along the side of the road is once again spilling over. Residents in the area are at severe health risk.

Today marked the first time that Dhaka University's admission test has been held in all eight divisions of the country. The admission test for 'Ka' unit of Dhaka University's science faculty was held today.

For the last four years, most of the homes in the government cluster villages in Dahagram union in Lalmonirhat have been empty. At least 130 landless families were given homes in these villages of Dahagram union in Patgram upazila. Now 80 of these 130 villages are unoccupied and the 50 families living there are facing problems regularly.

The RT-PCR labs at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka have finally been set up, were given approval and have started testing outbound passengers for coronavirus.

In order to protect our rivers and waterbodies, the High Court had declared them as living entities. With pollution increasing each and every day, government bodies like BIWTA filling up rivers, and encroachment by unscrupulous business entities, our insincerity in protecting our rivers is apparent.

Although Mirajul's work requires him to sell a variety of titbits out on the streets, he still finds time to satiate the voracious reader within him.