Ferries will resume operations on Shimulia-Banglabazar route today but only at daytime.

The leader of the Soviet parliamentary delegation in India, Kudrayavetsev, described the Bangladesh struggle as a “national liberation movement with elements of civil war in it”. He was speaking at the press club in New Delhi today.

Bangladesh wants to develop political and trade relations with France while the latter is keen to improve defence cooperation with Dhaka.

Leaders of truck and lorry owners and workers associations postponed their nationwide strike last night following a meeting with Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan at the secretariat.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Shafiqul Islam yesterday said that if any police official is dissatisfied with their job and wants a “better life”, they will be allowed to leave the profession with dignity.

The Supreme Court yesterday said if there was any fault in the executions of two Chuadanga men, Abdul Mokim and Golam Rasul Jharu, it was made by their lawyers.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam today said that any kind of news should not be disseminated with distorted information.

A drone attack that targeted the Iraqi prime minister on Sunday was carried out by at least one Iranian-backed militia group, Iraqi security officials and sources close to the militias said.

The forest department today filed a case accusing three people of electrocuting an Asian male elephant to death in a trap installed to protect crops, at the Sonakai union of Satkania upazila of Chattogram on Saturday.

Former US President Barack Obama on Monday lent his backing to appeals for more help from those on the frontline of global warming, as developing and rich nations engage to try to end years of deadlock over cash for climate change.

The railway work on the Padma Bridge will not start until the authorities concerned give a go-ahead, Railway Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan said today.

At least 151 dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours till 8:00 am today, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Six people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:00am today, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The High Court today issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain in a week why they should not be directed to give compensation to child Raqibuzzaman who lost his right hand and right leg after being electrocuted by an electricity cable in Satkhira.

Ferry services on Shimulia-Banglabazar route on the Padma river resumed today after a month of suspension.

Bangladesh delegation to visit the Netherlands, UK to increase agricultural exports

Jahangir Alam Akanda Nannu, a newly elected mayor of Bogura’s Sonatala municipality, was arrested in a case filed over a post-election violence.

Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity today alleged that the government has increased bus and launch fares to give the transport owners a chance to make hefty profits.

User-friendly and functioning without any major hiccup, vaccine registration app “Surokkha” is a small statement of capabilities of homegrown information technologists. 

Affluent people and political leaders, instead of the poor, are often the beneficiaries of the Dhaka city mayors’ discretionary funds that the mayors set up going beyond the city corporation act.