Hong Kong has overcome its challenges and “risen from the ashes”, China’s President Xi Jinping said yesterday, as he arrived in the former British colony to celebrate 25 years since its return to Chinese rule.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a man who was killed after being hit by a train in Shamshernagar Keshuluti area of Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila yesterday morning.

A Bangladeshi haji is being lauded for finding and returning around seven lakh CFA francs to its owner -- a pilgrim from Burkina Faso – in Saudi Arabia’s Medina city. 

July 1 for many reasons could have been a day of mourning, but as I look back at the past six years I see instead, a day of immense significance.

Holey artisan attack victims

Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus considers the Padma Bridge a long-cherished dream of all Bangladeshis, and there was no question of his getting in the way of realising that dream.

Russian forces abandoned the strategic Black Sea outpost of Snake Island yesterday, in a major victory for Ukraine that could loosen the grip of Russia’s blockade on Ukrainian ports. 

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday told a parliament session that the construction cost of Padma Bridge would be realised through toll collection in just 18 to 20 years, which is a much shorter period than anticipated earlier.

The holy Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslims, will be celebrated across the country on July 10 with due solemnity and religious fervour.

The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) yesterday raised the bus fare for 15 routes via the Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga Expressway as part of the government’s plan to monetise the country’s first expressway.

A Narail college teacher, who was publicly humiliated by being forced  to wear a garland of shoes around his neck on June 18, has been away  from home since the incident. 

A Dhaka court yesterday rejected the bail pleas of four members of North South University’s trustee board in a Tk 304 crore money laundering case.

Five vegetable traders were killed and four others injured as a lorry driver lost control of the vehicleand ploughed into a crowd in Narsingdi’s Raipura upazila yesterday.

The prime accused in the Ashulia teacher murder case, Ashraful Ahsan Jitu, was the leader of a local teen gang, said Rab.

A special court yesterday sentenced a man to death for committing war crimes in 1971.

The body of a newborn girl was found in Dinajpur’s Hakimpur upazila yesterday.

Bangladesh Navy detained 135 Indian fishermen, including eight trawlers, from the Bay of Bengal on Monday night.

A female doctor, who set herself on fire following a family feud on Friday, died at a city hospital yesterday.

A meeting of the National Moon Sighting Committee is going to be held today to fix the date of Eid-ul-Azha.

Scotland’s government on Tuesday drew the battle lines for a historic tussle with London as it announced plans to hold a second independence referendum on October 19, 2023.