Complaints against Facebook shops on the rise
In the last two years, e-commerce has expanded in Bangladesh like in other countries as the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns turbocharged digital shopping.
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Life as a Constable: Under stress, in distress
Constables are the lowest tier cops, who make up about 65 percent of the police force.
Better strategy for climate finance is key to COP26 success
The need for a better architecture of climate finance is more loudly pronounced now than ever before.
Over 1,000 mushroom farmers in Bangladesh quit farming
The farmers quit after the government stopped facilitating mushroom farming.
This is not how Hindu devotees wanted to bid farewell to Durga
It is difficult to explain the failure of local administration to take adequate steps to ensure protection of puja mandaps and Hindu neighbourhoods
Hate unleashed as clashes erupt between Hindus and Muslims
Angry mobs have attacked Hindu temples and clashed with police in various parts of the country.
Man falls in Dhaka drain, comes out of connecting canal alive
Locals said he was sitting on a bypass over the Kalshi canal before falling into the water.
Pandemic reversed work done to counter child marriage
Even today, 13 million girls are still married off before they are 15, mostly at the compulsion of family or society.
WHO okays world’s first malaria vaccine
The mosquito-borne disease kills more than 400,000 people a year, mostly children.
Rohingya leader Mohibullah shot dead in Cox’s Bazar camp
Three unknown men entered his office and fired five rounds of bullets, police said.