A 50-megawatt solar power plant in Mymensingh’s Sutiakhali area, the largest of its kind, is ready to start operations by the first week of October.

River erosion has begun at Daulatdia ferry terminal in Rajbari. A part of terminal-3 and its adjacent area have already gone into the Padma over the last three days.

Rab yesterday requested the Criminal Investigation Department to sue suspended health directorate driver Abdul Malek for money laundering.

The government has fixed Tk 10,000 as fee for registration of selected news portals and online editions of newspapers.

Members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 3.5 lakh yaba pills, worth around Tk 10 crore, from Hnila union, adjacent to Naf river in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila on Tuesday night.

The US is guilty of “obstructing” the global fight against emissions, China said yesterday, as Beijing seized the climate agenda by vowing to go carbon neutral by 2060 -- a target welcomed by environmentalists despite its patchy detail.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman asks the Education Commission today to expedite its recommendations keeping in view the requirements of the present as well as future generations.

Freedom fighters in Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila have come under several attacks in recent times after they protested the authorities’ failure to give a guard of honour to one of their fellow freedom fighters before his burial in late July.

Seven workers of a still mill sustained burn injuries at their workplace and were admitted to Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) Burn Unit yesterday noon.

A Supreme Court lawyer has served a notice on the government requesting it to formulate a law prescribing an equal and absolute right of Hindu and Buddhist women on their parents’ and husbands’ properties.

Ferry services on Paturia-Daulatdia route have been disrupted for the last three days due to shortage of vessels.

The coronavirus pandemic appears to be accelerating worldwide, with new cases soaring last week to a new seven-day high of almost two million, even as new deaths decreased, WHO statistics showed.

In a rare incident, a farmer from Ratidhar Dewti village of Lalmonirhat has bought an elephant worth Tk 16.5 lakh in order to obey “divine instructions received by his wife in her dreams”.

The United Nations General Assembly today agrees to discuss the question of admission of Bangladesh during its current session. A recommendation made to this effect by the general committee at the initiative of Yugoslavia was accepted by the Assembly.

Two and a half years ago, the government had approved a project to build a double rail line along the existing single track from Khulna to Darshana.

President Donald Trump’s push to cement a conservative majority on the Supreme Court received a boost yesterday as a longtime rival, Republican Senator Mitt Romney, said the chamber should vote on a replacement for liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The Donald Trump administration on Monday declared the cities of New York, Seattle and Portland, Oregon as jurisidictions “permitting anarchy,” threatening to withhold federal aid over civil unrest.

England is on track for about 50,000 coronavirus cases a day by mid-October and a surging death toll unless the public gets serious about preventive action, top UK advisers warned yesterday.

Forty more people have died from Covid-19 yesterday, while 1,705 new patients were recorded in the country in the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

A group of 170 Bangladeshis is expected to be repatriated from war-torn Libya in a chartered flight today.