FLASH FLOOD-HIT SUNAMGANJ Food, job crisis forces people to move to urban areas

Farmer Kutub Uddin, along with members of his family, on Wednesday set out for Sylhet city as he had no food in his house and there was also no hope for getting any job in the locality after flash flood inundated his crops in haor.

Serve people with more humane attitude

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday urged the judges and lawyers to be more humanitarian and serve the litigants with extra care to reduce their sufferings in the court of justice.

Fakhrul challenges AL to test popularity

Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday challenged its arch-rival ruling Awami League to test its popularity by holding an election without any influence of government and police.

Road digging leaves city people gasping

An orgy of erratic road digging in different areas in the capital, apparently aimed at nothing other than improving utility services, leaves local people wondering when they would come out of the acute suffering they have been put to.

Bangladeshi girl with three legs ‘walks, runs’ after Australia surgery

A toddler born with three legs – because body parts of a twin had grown inside her – was returning home to Bangladesh Friday after complex and rare surgery in Australia enabled her to walk and run, her doctor said.

No sports, games in most schools

Most schools offer no sports activities to their students in gross violation of the national education and sports policies.

FLASH FLOOD-HIT HAORS VGF for 2.6 lakh families under 100-day programme

The government has taken a move to distribute rice and flour along with a certain amount of cash among about 2.56 lakh ultra-poor flash flood-affected families in Sylhet division under its 100-day Vulnerable Group Feeding programme.

People must not face torture, oppression, PM to RAB

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asked the members of Rapid Action Battalion to make sure that common people do not fall victims to unnecessary torture and oppression during their duties.

Fakhrul says BNP not anti-Indian

Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said they were not anti-Indian.

BCIM mechanism Dhaka for finalising by next year as China, India take conflicting stances

Bangladesh on Wednesday stressed the need for taking a decision within one year on upgrading BCIM from a joint study group to an inter-governmental mechanism, while China and India took opposite positions about finalising an operational mechanism for the sub-regional group.