Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) is going to enforce a reduced weight limit for goods-laden vehicles on the Bangabandhu Bridge from today to enhance its durability. But the new limit is still not consistent with the recommendations made by experts over a decade ago.

The prisons and the police authorities apparently traded blame over how two death row convicts in the Holey Artisan attack case managed to wear prayers caps emblazoned with IS logo.

The nation is all set to celebrate the Month of Victory that starts today, through different festivities and programmes to be held throughout the month.

River transport workers yesterday started a nationwide indefinite strike, after what they called was the authorities’ failure to meet their demands in around seven months.

The Faraaz Hossain Courage Award-2019 will be given at a programme in the city’s Radisson Blu Water Garden Hotel today.

Leaders of Bangladesh Petrol Pump O Tank Lorry Malik Shramik Oikya Parishad have called an indefinite strike starting today in three divisions.

Police recovered the body of a four-year-old girl in Parbatipur upazila of Dinajpur last night.

Hundreds of people yesterday laid siege to a police station where four men are being held over the latest gruesome rape-murder to shock India.

The death toll from a powerful Albanian earthquake rose to 50 as the search for survivors was called off, Prime Minister Edi Rama said yesterday.

Iran yesterday disputed death tolls issued abroad for bloodshed that erupted during protests in the country over fuel prices, after a rights group said over 160 demonstrators were killed.

Emmanuel Macron is “still kind of working out” his vision for NATO, a senior US official said Friday, brushing aside the French president’s call for reinventing the American-led alliance.

Ruling Awami League has named Sheikh Bazlur Rahman and SM Mannan Kochi as the president and general secretary, respectively, of its Dhaka north unit for the next three years.

A South African court on Friday dismissed former president Jacob Zuma’s attempts to appeal against a corruption trial in which he faces charges related to a 1990s arms deal involving France’s Thales.

New Zealand announced extra aid for Samoa Friday as the Pacific nation’s measles epidemic raced past 3,000 cases and experts warned the number could double before the crisis was over.

A worker of the under -construction Payra Thermal Power Plant in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali died as an iron pipe fell on him from a crane yesterday.

The Brunei authorities have deported nine Bangladeshis in the past one month, during a crackdown on labour exploitation and human trafficking.

Climate negotiations opening next week in Madrid must prioritise funding for nations already dealing with the cost of drought, floods and superstorms made worse by rising temperatures, more than 150 environmental groups said yesterday.

Business owners in Chattogram port feared that bulk cargo management would be disrupted, putting an impact on the supply chain, as a faction of water transport workers announced work abstention for an indefinite period since yesterday midnight.

Ragging in the dormitories of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) had been going on for a long time and many victim students became depressed and mentally imbalanced, probes have revealed.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka for Madrid, Spain tomorrow morning to attend the 25th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP25) to be held from December 2-13 under the UN framework convention on climate change.