The present heat and humidity is unusual at this time of the year, when the season changes from the rainy days to dry weather in the Bengali month of Ashwin.    This is usually the season of silver white clouds in an azure sky, temperatures dropping a bit at night, and mornings getting cooler…

Fisheries and Livestock Minister Narayon Chandra Chanda yesterday said for violation of the recently imposed restriction on catching, selling and transporting hilsa the offenders will be will jailed for one or two years and fined highest Tk 5,000, reports UNB. The punishment will be doubled for committing…

The High Court (HC) yesterday gave a deadline of three working days to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s lawyers to finish placing their arguments on the legal points of her appeal against a trial court verdict that had sentenced her to five years of imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.…

The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) was unable to tackle the drug menace in the country with “full might” because of lack of adequate manpower. “We're unable to carry out operations at the grassroots level because of paucity of manpower. We are also unable to detain the kingpins…