At least three villages were flooded as a point of an embankment on the bank of river Kholpetua collapsed due to the pressure of water during the high tide in village Bichhat under Ashashuni upazila in Satkhira Monday morning....
Chief adviser Muhammad Yunus on Thursday sought support from the Food and Agriculture Organisation in an effort to export fruits and farm products to China in a bigger way...
EACH year, on March 25, the world pauses to observe International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, an occasion that commemorates one of the most brutal and dehumanising chapters in history. This remembrance is not merely symbolic. It is a moral imperative, a call to reflect on a legacy that still ripples through our...
A construction worker died after falling from the roof of a two-storey under construction building in Dhopapukur area of Satkhira on Saturday...
A 15-year-old madrasa student drowned in a pond at the Kashempur Madinatul Ulum Qawmi Madrassah and Orphanage in Satkhira Sadar on Wednesday...
The heatwave that swept Bangladesh for 37 days extending over April and May has been recognised as one of the significant weather events recorded globally in 2024, the hottest year in the 175 years of observational record of the World Meteorological Organisation...
NOISE pollution in Bangladesh has reached an intolerable level. It now affects daily life, damages health, and disrupts the environment. The cities echo with constant sound 鈥� horns blaring, construction hammering, music blaring from speakers and engines roaring. Rural areas, once peaceful, are also no longer free from this intrusion. The situation is worst in major...
The World Health Organisation said Monday 80 per cent of services that it supports in Afghanistan could shut down by June due to a funding shortage...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on Monday lowered its projections for global growth in 2025 due to 鈥榯rade barriers鈥� and 鈥榰ncertainty鈥�...
Bangladesh and Pakistan have agreed to enhance bilateral cooperation in all areas of mutual interest as the foreign ministers of the two South Asian countries met on the sidelines of the OIC meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
European nationals can apply for a digital travel permit to enter the UK starting from Wednesday, in the latest step taken by Britain to digitise its borders...
A member of the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation was stabbed to death allegedly by the members of their rival organisation, Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, at Block M in the camp-20 under Ukhiya upazila in Cox鈥檚 Bazar Tuesday night...
THE introduction of Starlink, the satellite-based internet service by SpaceX, in Bangladesh has been hailed as a revolutionary step towards bridging the digital divide. With its ability to provide high-speed, low-latency internet to remote and underserved areas, Starlink has the potential to transform various sectors, including education, healthcare and economic...
The name of Bangabandhu Satellite-1 has been changed to 鈥楤angladesh Satellite-1,鈥� following a directive issued by the Posts and Telecommunications Division.
Special assistant to the chief adviser Professor Dr Md Sayedur Rahman at a programme at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in Dhaka on Thursday said that experts should be created keeping in mind national needs...
The High Court (HC) today acquitted former BNP lawmaker Habibul Islam Habib of the charges in a case lodged over the 2002 attack on the motorcade of the then leader of the opposition Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira.
The Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority is going to introduce a project named 鈥楨mployment Injury Scheme鈥� in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation to provide aid to the garment sector workers of Export Processing Zones, said a press release...
A POLICY attention on ensuring access to basic sanitation facilities has left other relevant concerns such as faecal waste management and water and sanitation infrastructure maintenance unattended for decades. Experts, entrepreneurs, academics and development partners at a conference in Dhaka on February 25 called for addressing gaps in sanitation facilities. They have...
The test run of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant will begin soon, director general of State Corporation for Nuclear Energy Rosatom of the Russian Federation, Alexey Likhachev, said on Wednesday...
Masato Kanda today officially assumed office as the 11th President of the Asian Development Bank...
The government on Thursday made associate professor Sohel Hasan Galib, also a poet and essayist, an officer on special duty and attached him to Shyamnagar Government Mohsin Degree College in Satkhira...
Professionals and student leaders have urged student organisations to become independent of political parties to ensure free thinking and freedom of thought and conscious of the students.
The World Health Organisation launched on Tuesday a new platform providing cost-free cancer medicines for thousands of children living in low- and middle-income countries, in a bid to improve lagging survival rates.
THE slow death of Dhaka鈥檚 green spaces under the pretext of development is not merely an environmental concern; it is directly influencing the liveability of the city. The government鈥檚 latest decision to construct a road through Osmani Udyan is yet another example of such destruction of public parks in the name of development or modernisation. The road construction...
Standard Chartered Bangladesh, in collaboration with the Japan External Trade Organisation and the Japan-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry, recently hosted an exchange session titled 鈥楩orging a Shared Future鈥� at the Westin in the city...
THE vandalisation of the historic Dhanmondi residence of Bangladesh鈥檚 founding president, the late Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, on February 5 appears to have been a direct result of the indirect provocation of the fallen prime minister Sheikh Hasina and the reactive political behaviour of a section of the agitating students who led the democratically oriented...
IN 2019, I worked with a USAID-funded project called Nobo Jatra, which was implemented across 40 unions in the Khulna and Satkhira districts of Bangladesh. One of these unions was Buri Goalini, located in Shyamnagar Upazila. Like many other villages in the southwestern region of the country, Buri Goalini suffered from high salinity levels, leading to...
MIGRATION has long been considered a one-way movement, with migrants leaving their country of origin and making the host nation their final abode. However, this notion of migration as a permanent transition has evolved. According to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development estimates, roughly 40 per cent of migrants are likely to...
Abrupt firings, senior officials demoted, and career employees left reeling 鈥� US president Donald Trump is taking a sledgehammer to a Justice Department he accuses of unjustly prosecuting him...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday said that it did not have any information about Canadian citizenship of Saima Wazed Putul, daughter of the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who was appointed as regional director for South-East Asia at the World Health Organisation in the past year...