A man died and two others sustained injuries after an auto-rickshaw and a truck collided head-on in Dhaka’s Motijheel area early this morning.

Aruni Sarkar has invented 6 new climate resistant varieties of Aman rice. This farmer from Gangarampur village of Batiaghata upazila of Khulna had the dream of inventing new varieties of Aman to bring high rice yield in the southwestern region of the country.

The government is planning to inoculate children aged 12 and above against Covid-19.

A transnational syndicate has adopted a new strategy to smuggle firearms and bullets from India.

Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque yesterday told parliament that the certificates of 10,000 fake freedom fighters accepted from 2002 to 2010 in the civil gazette list have been cancelled.

Chief of Army Staff Gen SM Shafiuddin Ahmed went to India yesterday on a three-day official visit.

Prime Minister of Bangladesh Tajuddin Ahmed, in a broadcast today, appealed to all nations to accord recognition to Bangladesh to accelerate the pace of the freedom movement.

In Gaibandha, a family is now forced to shackle their 16-year-old, who is intellectually disabled, to the bed -- as the whole area has been underwater for weeks, and the family has no means to rehabilitate.

Awami League candidate Habibur Rahman Habib has won the Sylhet-3 by-election held today.

Common cold, little scratch, or big infection -- everything can turn fatal because of antibiotic resistance.

Health condition of senior Awami League leader Tofail Ahmed, who is undergoing treatment at Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon, India, has improved.

The Islamic University authorities have approved the commencement of Honours-Masters final examinations online or in-person from September 12.

Padma Bank had signed a memorandum of understanding with a US based investment company under which the latter will manage a “potential fund” of $700 million as debt and equity capital for the Bangladeshi lender.

Three people, including Habiganj’s Lakhai upazila Chhatra League Joint Convener Solaiman Hossain Rony, have been arrested on charge of raping a newlywed woman in front of her husband on a boat in a haor.

The Special Security Force Bill-2021 was placed in parliament yesterday, incorporating a provision for state security for family members of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and other “very important” persons.

Hossain Ali, the chief of the Bangladesh mission in Kolkata, today presented to the sons of Kazi Nazrul Islam a cheque for 2,100 rupees as pension for the poet.

Coming out of past diplomatic rows, Bangladesh and Turkey are deepening relations as the latter seeks to regain its position in the Muslim world, while Dhaka looks for strong allies on the global stage to resolve the Rohingya crisis and boost trade, analysts have said.

Today is the fifth death anniversary of M Abdur Rahim, a close associate of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and western zone chairman of the then Mujibnagar government.

Doctors at a hospital in New Delhi have described veteran politician and senior Awami League leader Tofail Ahmed’s health condition as “stable” hours after he was flown to the Indian capital for treatment this afternoon as he suffered a stroke in Bangladesh on August 30.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will resume flight operations on Dhaka-Kolkata-Dhaka route from September 5 under the air bubble agreement with India.