The government has taken comprehensive measures to develop the fish sector of the country, said speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury.

Brahmanbaria fire service has pulled out the engine boat from the water, 43 hours after it capsized in Laishka Beel under Bijoynagar upazila on Friday, leaving 22 people dead.

Bangladesh's first metro train services would be launched in December next year, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today unveiled the foundation stone of the Cox’s Bazar Airport runway extension project -- aiming to enable it to offer a longer range of domestic and international passenger services.

Rail communication on Dhaka-Chattogram route was suspended for seven hours when a train derailed after hitting a pickup van in Cumilla.

Forest officials seized a truck carrying two elephants that were being trafficked in Lohagara upazila of Chattogram.

Ekushey Padak winning writer Bulbul Chowdhury passed away yesterday evening. He was 73.

Only 15 to 20 percent of the work of a 13-month road extension project on Murali intersection of Khulna bus stand has been completed in nine months.

Anvir Adel Khan, a former national hockey player and former joint secretary of Bangladesh Hockey Federation, passed away at a hospital in Dhaka yesterday.

Rice prices have started to drop after the government allowed private importers to bring in the staple from other countries.

Medics took Asma Begum’s nasal swab at a hospital in Sirajganj to get her tested for coronavirus on August 10. But the 55-year-old woman has yet to formally get the result.

A total of 12 Bangladeshis, whose flight from Afghanistan was cancelled after two bomb blasts outside Kabul airport on Thursday, were on their way home, said the foreign ministry.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to virtually inaugurate the ground breaking ceremony and unveil the foundation stone of the runway extension at Cox’s Bazar Airport today morning.

Forest and livestock officials buried a large Bryde’s whale yesterday, around three days after it was washed ashore dead.

Tajuddin Ahmed, prime minister of Bangladesh, said at Mujibnagar today, “None can bring us freedom. We have to achieve it ourselves by shedding our blood.”

The lone tissue bank of this country, located in Savar, has been serving silently for over 10 years, and has aided thousands with at least 1.39 lakh cubic metres of bones and 54,768 pieces of amniotic grafts.

Law Minister Anisul Huq today said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will have to return to jail if she wants to seek permission to go abroad for treatment.

Smart Agro-Technology Innovation Youth Network (SAIYN), a platform to create awareness on knowledge-based farm machinery, was launched on August 26.

People in villages will be prioritised in the Covid-19 vaccination program from now on as the number of deaths has increased in villages due to fewer number of people being vaccinated there, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.

At least 200 metric tonnes of liquid oxygen were imported from India by Oxygen Express through Benapole land port last night.