A parliamentary body yesterday asked the environment directorate to shut down the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate, as the joint management committee (JMC) that runs the estate failed to comply with environmental standards.

Former Bangladesh high commissioner to Malaysia, Mohammed Khairuzzaman, who was arrested by Malaysian police Wednesday morning, will be brought back home and could be investigated for his role in the historic jail killings of 1975.

A relatively new De Havilland Canada Dash-8 aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines has been grounded since February 2 due to “damaged engines caused by pilot error”.

A meeting of the [Muslim League] parliamentary party was going on in the assembly hall on February 21, 1952, and I heard the gunshot during that meeting. 

With a blank expression, not long after he landed in Chattogram from Qatar, Lokman Hossain sat on a chair at his home and stared into the ambulance where the dead body of his 18-year-old daughter was kept in a coffin.

Corruption is a mental disease that cannot be cured only by corporal punishment, the High Court said in the full text of a verdict in a graft case recommending introduction of the death penalty for such offences.

Shahidur Rahman Khan Mukti, former mayor of Tangail municipality, yesterday received bail in the sensational Freedom Fighter Faruk Ahmed murder case.

An acid attack victim died early yesterday after in the capitals Sheikh Hasina Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery.

A shopkeeper was beaten up allegedly by BCL men in Tangail’s Basail upazila yesterday.

A bike thief was killed by a mob in Dinajpur yesterday.

A contempt of court petition was filed with the High Court yesterday against Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda for not registering Ganasamhati Andolon as a political party in around three years after the HC has directed to do so.

Yesterday was the 19th death anniversary of Advocate Badiul Alam, a freedom fighter and politician, said a press release.

Professor Md Alamgir Kabir, proctor of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, was relieved from his position yesterday due to personal grounds, said a circular signed by SUST Registrar Mohd Ishfaqul Hussain.

The transmission of novel coronavirus continued to decline for the sixth consecutive day as the health directorate reported a 16.95 percent positivity rate yesterday.

A food delivery man was killed after his bicycle was hit, allegedly by a lorry near the Palashi intersection in the capital yesterday.

Paracetamol is the most popular and most used pain medication in the world. It is available over the counter and usually considered safe when taken in recommended doses.

Plabon Shil, a sibling of the five brothers who were run over and killed by a pick-up truck in Chakaria upazila, filed a case on Tuesday night accusing unnamed people.

The jet fuel price has gone up from Tuesday, the 11th hike in 15 months, dealing a fresh blow to the struggling aviation industry at a time when it was getting back up on its feet with the normalisation of air travel once again.

Eight union parishads go to polls today in the last phase of the lowest tier of local government body elections.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has invited Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen to visit Washington DC to mark the 50th year of bilateral ties.