Police have arrested four people, including a constable, over selling demand order (DO) letters to jobseekers after forging the signature of Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan during the recruitment of constables in the force.

Lifting of the half-sunken ferry at Manikganj’s Paturia terminal is uncertain as the BIWTA does not have the capacity to pull it out.

Bangladesh and India have expressed optimism that the utilisation rate of Lines of Credit (LoCs) extended to Bangladesh by India is set to increase significantly soon.

US President Richard Nixon, in a letter sent today, appreciated Pakistan President Yahya Khan for his “prompt and positive” response to the US proposal for withdrawal of forces from the border with India.

The ferry Shah Amanat, which tipped over at Paturia Ghat, could not be retrieved yet. Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has engaged rescue vessels Hamza and Rustam to salvage the ferry.

The government has promoted 213 officials previously ranked as deputy secretaries to the post of joint secretary.

A husband and wife were found dead in their home at Kamarpara area of Sirajganj’s Belkuchi upazila this morning.

The 43rd BCS preliminary exam was held today. The exam started at 10:00am in 369 centres of eight divisional cities and ended at 12pm.

At least 130 patients were hospitalised in 24 hours preceding 8:00am today of whom four are from outside Dhaka, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

In 2017, with the view to alleviating the capital’s absurd traffic congestion, the government took up the Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway project to implement largely with Chinese funding.

A parliamentary body has asked the National River Protection Commission to prepare a list of grabbers and illegal structures in four rivers surrounding Dhaka that includes the Buriganga, the Turag, the Sitalokkha and the Balu rivers as soon as possible.

In a report published today, The New York Times stated that Pakistan’s 29 reception centres for returning Bangladeshi refugees were clean, stocked with adequate food and medicine and well-staffed but the only thing they lacked was refugees.

The government must announce that no new coal-based power project will be approved and financed after 2021 to achieve the renewable energy target, recommended Transparency International Bangladesh yesterday.

Just before Russell Khondokar was getting prepared to take the SSC exams, the world around him came tumbling down.

The High Court has castigated global tech giants, including Google, Facebook and Yahoo, for not paying income tax to the government of Bangladesh.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said some “enthusiastic” media outlets and individuals were spreading cooked-up stories about deaths and rapes of members of religious minorities.

One of the five workers, who was burnt after molten metal fell on him during an explosion at a steel mill in Narayanganj, died at a city hospital this afternoon.

The High Court today observed that the negligence of local police administration and a union member in taking steps on time resulted in the gang rape and torture in Noakhali’s Begumganj in September last year.

Bangladesh Railway has now decided to make 10 locomotives bought from South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Company operational, after leaving them unused for one year because, according to BR, the company did not comply with their deal.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) today demolished illegal portions of nine structures in the capital’s Dhanmondi to construct walkways around Dhanmondi lake.