The Department of Environment (DoE) has downgraded the status of the harmful shipbreaking industry in Chattogram from red to orange caving into the pressure from the ship recycling yard owners, in a development that is set to cause serious damage to the ecology in the area.

The World Information Technology and Services Alliance yesterday named Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as the winner of Eminent Persons Award for 2021 for her fight against fundamentalism, militancy and terrorism.

Bangladesh ended their 18-year winless streak against Maldives with a 2-1 win in their second match of the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Tournament in Colombo today.

Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, returning from a three’week Western tour, said today that the military confrontation with Pakistan was becoming “less and less tolerable”.

Four Sylhet temples have long been housing 10 Middle Ages sculptures, including a rare five-faced Shivalinga and a goddess on a corpse, but historians and archaeologists were unaware of their existence.

Chattogram Customs did not penalise China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) even though it evaded tax while importing construction materials for a government project.

Judge Mosammat Kamrunnahar, of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-7, found all the five accused “not guilty” in the rape case of two university students filed with Banani Police Station on May 6, 2017.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the world leaders to ensure repatriation of Rohingyas to their homeland Myanmar soon to escape security risks in the region and beyond.

Lawyer ZI Khan Panna, a human rights activist and the immediate past chairperson of rights body Ain O Salish Kendra, said there is no time limit for filing any rape case as per the criminal laws. 

Hills and hillocks in Sylhet are reducing in number day by day. Influential locals as well as government projects are responsible for razing and cutting hillocks and replacing them with concrete structures.

A Bogura court today sent Asadul Islam Mir Dholu, worker of a Bogura hospital, in connection with a case filed over the death of an 18-year-old after his oxygen mask was removed over not getting a "satisfactory tip".

Bangladesh will be touring New Zealand for two Tests, both part of the World Test Championship, in January next year.  

One hundred and three dengue patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8:00am today, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Janik Nokrek, a priest of the ancient Mandi (Garo) religion, passed away today at his house in Madhupur upazila in Tangail due to old age complications.

One crew member of an oil tanker died and seven sustained burn injuries in a blast on Sugandha river in Jhalakathi this morning.

The energy ministry had no option but to push for a raise in the prices of diesel and kerosene that has now set off a chain reaction in the economy, said Energy Secretary Md Anisur Rahman yesterday.

Bangladesh ranks third in the world among the countries most hit by natural disasters. Its low elevation and high population density make it particularly vulnerable to these climate hazards, including cyclones, flooding and rising sea levels.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the Unesco to declare remote learning and online education as a global public good as online education evolved as a “new normal” during the Covid-19 pandemic.

A Tashkent-type conference is not possible to solve the crisis created by Pakistan. But no problem is unsolvable and that even at the last moment the world can make the Yahya regime see reason and bow to the wishes of Bangalees.

For the past three years, the government has been imposing 65 days of fishing ban in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of Bangladesh at Bay of Bengal.