A bill was placed in parliament today with a provision of allowing the government to form an ad-hoc committee for a maximum one-year tenure to arrange the bar council election in an unusual situation.

One more dengue patient died while 255 others were hospitalised in the 24 hours till 8:00am today.

Bangladesh Coast Guard detained 13 Indian fishermen and seized a fishing trawler from the Bay of Bengal for illegally entering Bangladesh territory.

At least 20,000 people living in different shoals of Teesta River and surrounding low lying areas in Dimla and Jaldhaka upazilas of Nilphamari were marooned as water level in the river started to increase from this morning.

US-Bangla Airlines will resume flights on the Dhaka-Chennai route from September 5 under Air Bubble Agreement between Bangladesh and India.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday in parliament said she directed the authorities concerned to reopen all schools and colleges soon and that they were taking measures in this regard.

Militant outfit Ansar al Islam, said to be the Bangladesh chapter of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, is aiming to strengthen its female wing with at least 25 female members directly involved in its organisational activities.

Hasibur Rahman Swapon, Awami League lawmaker from Sirajganj-6 (Shahjadpur), passed away at a hospital in the Turkish city of Istanbul early yesterday.

Kazi Sabyashachi, son of rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, outright rejected today Pakistan’s offer to renew payment of monthly allowances to the poet. He said they would not touch the blood-stained money of Pakistan.

People of Baghutia Uttarpara village in Kalihati upazila have constructed a temporary embankment through voluntary work to save their crops from flood water of the Jhenai river.

The Chattogram Stock Exchange rearranged two of its indexes—CSE-30 and CSE-50—based on the performances of listed companies.

Exports significantly rebounded in August when it increased 14.02 per cent year-on-year to $3.38 billion buoyed by garment shipment, particularly knitwear items.

A Dhaka court today rejected bail of four former and incumbent officials of e-commerce platform E-orange and sent them to jail on expiry of their remand in a case filed over embezzlement of around Tk 1,100 crore.

A 10-year-old boy died after coming in contact with live wire while he was getting wet in the rain on the rooftop of a building in Dhaka’s Tejgaon area this afternoon.

In-person academic activities will resume at all medical educational institutions from September 13, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.

The flood situation in Kurigram and Sirajganj has deteriorated as Brahmaputra and Jamuna’s water levels are flowing above the danger level this morning.

A Dhaka court has placed three officials of TKS Healthcare Service on a five-day remand each in a case filed over forging documents that showed the health ministry's approval to collect samples and conduct Covid-19 antigen tests.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today told the parliament that the government is taking measures to reopen educational institutes soon.

Ruling Awami League lawmaker from Sirajganj-6 (Shahjadpur) Hashibur Rahman Swapon passed away today at a hospital in Turkey. He was 67.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has stressed on the international community’s responsibility towards establishing accountability and justice for the massive human rights violations perpetrated against Rohingyas in Myanmar.