The ruling Awami League has won 73 percent chairman posts in 204 Union Parishad polls held in the first phase on Monday.

While violence against women increased nationally over the pandemic, the burden weighs heavier on indigenous women, said speakers at a conference yesterday.

Copious seasonal showers led to waterlogging and traffic congestion in several parts of the capital on Tuesday morning, washing away the tall claims of monsoon preparedness by the civic bodies.

Drowning accounts for 43 percent of deaths among children between the ages of one and four in Bangladesh, found a recent study.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday asked Dhaka Metropolitan Police and the city corporations to be strict in banning easy bikes and battery-powered rickshaws in the capital.

Drivers of battery-operated three-wheelers yesterday protested against the government’s recent announcement of banning the vehicles.

Tuhin Siddiqui Omi, who was arrested following an attempted rape and murder case filed by actor Pori Moni, has trafficked several hundred people abroad and amassed huge money and wealth at home and abroad, said officials of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday.

Awami League leader Tofail Ahmed, lawmaker of Bhola-1, has announced that he will donate all his movable and immovable property to Tofail Ahmed Foundation.

Bangladesh has been one of the top three performers on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Index due to the government’s prudent planning with specific directions, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday.

The gazette notification of minimum wage for the workers involved in tea garden sector should be repealed, demanded speakers at a consultation meeting yesterday.

Dhaka University’s Teacher-Student Centre (TSC) is set to be built anew, in line with directives provided by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Three people were killed in a road accident at Lobonkotha area on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Mymensingh’s Bhaluka upazila yesterday morning.

USAID has launched a $17 million clean energy project, Bangladesh Advancing Development Growth through Energy (BADGE), aimed at expanding Bangladesh’s access to affordable clean energy and support clean energy entrepreneurship.

Activities of river police in Chattogram region are being severely hampered due lack of manpower and water vessels.

Torrential monsoon rain swamped many parts of the capital yesterday, disrupting public movement and triggering traffic chaos.

The Rapid Action Battalion claimed to have detained 16 members of “teen gangs” from different parts of Hazaribagh and Darus Salam areas of the capital on Sunday.

The Directorate General of Health Services yesterday started administering Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines at three centres in Dhaka. Around 9:30am, the campaign was inaugurated at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).

The forgery case filed against Aparajita International proprietor Sharmin Jahan was a matter of factual error, a police probe report has found.

Prof Dr Mamun Al Mahtab Shwapnil, chairman of Hepatology department at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), and two other doctors were sued for the death of Dr Mohammad Towfiq Enam.

Insufficient allocation and lack of focus in the budget will hinder the hygiene sub-sector, which remains a key priority for Covid-19 and the SDG Goals, speakers at a post-budget press conference said yesterday.