Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam said they want to install fire hydrants in slums so that its dwellers can respond first and minimise losses in case of fire incidents.

Admission process for first year honours and professional courses of the academic session 2020-2021 in different colleges under National University (NU) has been postponed.

The supply of gas will remain suspended for 12 hours from (9 am to 9 pm) in some areas of the city tomorrow.

A huge amount of chemicals worth around Tk 50 lakh which was imported from India were gutted in a fire at Benapole land port in Jashore this evening.

The leaders of the new committee of Hefajat-e Islam today demanded immediate release of all the arrested “innocent” leaders of Hefajat and opening of Qawmi madrasas.

After a two-month gap due to Covid-19 restrictions and domestic issues in Lebanon, undocumented Bangladeshi migrant workers there have started returning home.

The stock market regulator today approved the amalgamation of Bangladesh Steel Re-Rolling Mills (BSRM) Ltd and its sister concern BSRM Steel Mills Ltd.

Three teenagers suffered injuries during a clash among juveniles at Jashore Child Development Center this afternoon.

Some quarters have become active in profiteering from Covid-19 vaccine procurement, 18 eminent citizens said in a statement today.

A mild earthquake jolted Sylhet this evening.

Police have arrested Zahirul Islam Jumman, convener of the Brahmanbaria Sainik League, six days after Prothom Alo's reporter Shahadat Hossain was attacked by his younger brother Roman Miah, when Shahadat was on professional duty in the district’s railway station area.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained 12 Bangladeshis today from a madrasa in Jhenaidah’s Maheshpur upazila. The detainees entered Bangladesh illegally from India last night through the Matila border and took shelter in the madrasa, according to BGB.

A woman sustained server burns in Dhaka’s Mirpur area last night and was admitted to Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery.

The stock market fell today thanks to the profit booking tendency of the investors.

Thirty people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

A radio-collared tiger in the Sundarbans travelled nearly 100km in four months before crossing over to the Bangladesh part of the mangrove forest, India’s West Bengal Chief Wildlife Warden VK Yadav was quoted today as saying.

A virtual court in Dhaka today placed Mufti Sharafat Hossain, a joint general secretary of now dissolved Hefajat's Central Committee, on a two-day remand in a case filed with Paltan Police Station over the violence occurred centring the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 26.

The High Court today directed the authorities concerned of Chattogram jail to immediately release Minu Akhter, who has been serving jail sentence instead of convicted Kulsuma Akhter in a murder case.

The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) thinks there are some inconsistencies in the present laws on value-added tax and income tax.

The Ministry of Information has served a notice to Robi Axiata Limited, seeking its explanation in seven working days, for using Rabindranath Tagore’s image instead of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam in a social media post dedicated to the latter on his birth anniversary.