Karam festival -- centred around the worship of trees -- is celebrated by indigenous communities in the Bangla month of Bhadra.

Bangladesh recently decided to lend $250 million dollars to Sri Lanka from its foreign currency reserve. This loan will be provided through a currency swap mechanism.

Farmers in Moulvibazar are profiting from honey cultivation with minimal investment.

Aviation security of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport has seized foreign currency worth Tk 12.5 crore while it was being smuggled in a manner that has not been seen before.

Balaram Roy, the son of a farmer from a village in Lalmonirhat is a young folk singer and can play multiple musical instruments. In addition to his musical abilities, he is also excelling in school and is active in sports. He plays the dotara and other traditional local instruments.

The government has introduced a software named “Special Branch Firearms Management System” to automate firearms sale and licensing that can allegedly reduce abuse of firearms.

Despite spending double the estimated cost, and an additional six years of construction, the Airport-Gazipur BRT project is still at least a year away from completion. Why has the project failed to be completed even after doubling the cost and time?

From Barishal city, the route to the under-construction Payra Sea Port is straddled by four rivers and there are seven rivers on the way to Kuakata beach. Payra river is the only one of these rivers without a bridge. The construction of the Payra Bridge took an extra five years and it cost 3.5 times the original estimate.

There will be no nationwide public exams before Class-10 and no science-arts-business divide in SSC.

Vegetable saplings are being produced in greenhouses by drip irrigation using coco peat instead of soil. An organisation called Maxim Agro has built this farm in Churamonkati in Jashore.

During the one and a half year long school closure in the ongoing pandemic, all of Nargis' female classmates were married off. Typical of rural Bangladesh, girls discontinue studies after they begin to carry the burden of the family of in laws. But, Nargis dreams of education and knowledge. She is now attending class as the sole female student among 27 male students in her class.

Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology authorities have cut down several 50-year-old trees and sold them off for 1 lakh and 27 thousand. On the other hand, despite previous outrage over cutting down trees in Suhrawardy Uddyan, Dhaka University authorities moved to cut down a 30-year-old Krishnachura tree.

Death of two students while two buses were racing each other, and a careless derision from a minister sparked a nationwide protest and outcry for road safety. Following the road safety movement, the government haphazardly formed The Road Transport Bill, 2018. Now, after 3 years of this already scrutinized act, the government is planning modifications -- apparently according to the demands of transport workers.

Farmers in Khulna have made possible what was once a fantasy -- harvesting watermelon in salinised soil, using a clever procedure called mulching.

Due to continuous loss in sugar mills, the government has declared closure of the production of 6 out of 15 sugar mills of the country. Because of the halt in production, sugarcane farmers depending on these mills do not know what to do with their produce.

Last May, after the spike in Covid-19 cases, the UAE put a ban on flights from Bangladesh.

Salman Sardar, a villager from Narangali in Panisara union under Jashore's Jhikargacha bought 60 aquarium fish in 2017 for 2,000 taka. With that investment only, he earned 10 lakh taka in the first year.

Where once ponds, lakes and rivers of Bangladesh were full to the brim with fish, species like Bhangon Bata, Nandi, Mohashol, Khorka or Khorika, Goalpara Puia, Pipla Shol or Tila Shol, Kala Pabda, Baghair and Chenua have now became nearly extinct.

There is no alternative to masks in preventing coronavirus. A recent research has proven that the possibility of coronavirus contamination can be prevented upto 34% by using masks alone. This research by Stanford Medicine School and Yale University was conducted in Bangladesh.

Every year in the west Sheota area of Manikganj, Bhela Bhashani festival celebrates the life of Khaja Khwaja Khijir.