The health and family welfare ministry yesterday formed a three-member committee to probe how 17 files, all deemed important, went missing from its premises on Thursday.

Free press is under an onslaught from multiple spheres -- beginning from the legal system, to the corporate domination of the media, to politicisation of journalists, said speakers at an event organised by Sampadak Parishad yesterday.

The worrying dip in remittance flow in recent months is the result of a reemergence of illegal channels of money transfer after the coronavirus restrictions were lifted, a sharp decline in overseas recruitment, and layoffs, experts said.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said Bangladesh would play a significant role at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) that is set to begin in Glasgow today.

The Bangladesh problem dominated the talks Indira Gandhi had with Heath today at the British prime minister’s country residence outside London.

Bangladesh has been moving away from the path of secularism while communal forces are being patronised to reap partisan benefits and tap vote banks, academics and rights activists told a webinar last night.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen must revoke his “untrue” remarks over the attacks on Hindu temples during the Durga Puja, demanded Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad yesterday.

Three banks, three companies and five individuals were crowned with the inaugural “A Better Tomorrow CSR Awards” by The Daily Star and the CSR Window Bangladesh in recognition of their extraordinary accomplishments and efforts to create better lives.

Police have arrested four people, including a constable, over selling demand order (DO) letters to jobseekers after forging the signature of Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan during the recruitment of constables in the force.

Lifting of the half-sunken ferry at Manikganj’s Paturia terminal is uncertain as the BIWTA does not have the capacity to pull it out.

Bangladesh and India have expressed optimism that the utilisation rate of Lines of Credit (LoCs) extended to Bangladesh by India is set to increase significantly soon.

US President Richard Nixon, in a letter sent today, appreciated Pakistan President Yahya Khan for his “prompt and positive” response to the US proposal for withdrawal of forces from the border with India.

The ferry Shah Amanat, which tipped over at Paturia Ghat, could not be retrieved yet. Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has engaged rescue vessels Hamza and Rustam to salvage the ferry.

The government has promoted 213 officials previously ranked as deputy secretaries to the post of joint secretary.

A husband and wife were found dead in their home at Kamarpara area of Sirajganj’s Belkuchi upazila this morning.

The 43rd BCS preliminary exam was held today. The exam started at 10:00am in 369 centres of eight divisional cities and ended at 12pm.

At least 130 patients were hospitalised in 24 hours preceding 8:00am today of whom four are from outside Dhaka, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

In 2017, with the view to alleviating the capital’s absurd traffic congestion, the government took up the Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway project to implement largely with Chinese funding.

A parliamentary body has asked the National River Protection Commission to prepare a list of grabbers and illegal structures in four rivers surrounding Dhaka that includes the Buriganga, the Turag, the Sitalokkha and the Balu rivers as soon as possible.

In a report published today, The New York Times stated that Pakistan’s 29 reception centres for returning Bangladeshi refugees were clean, stocked with adequate food and medicine and well-staffed but the only thing they lacked was refugees.