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.

Dr Zenith Reza Khan, a Bangladeshi expatriate working as a professor of cyber ethics and information sciences in the United Arab Emirates, has been awarded the Exemplary Research Award from European Union’s Erasmus++ funded European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI).

Two construction workers were electrocuted at Narayanganj city’s Naluapara area on Monday night.

The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has kicked off an eviction drive to demolish illegal structures beside the national highway from Baghabari to Hatikumrul area in Sirajganj.

A Dhaka court has imposed travel ban on six people including Whip Shamsul Haque Chowdhury and Bhola-3 Awami League lawmaker Nurunnabi Chowdhury Shaon, in order to investigate their links with amassing wealth beyond known sources of income.

The High Court yesterday confirmed death penalty of three persons, including a sacked police constable, for killing nine-year-old Abu Sayeed for ransom in Sylhet in 2015.

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.

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.

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.

Freedom fighter MG Mohiuddin Ahmed, former deputy general manager of Bangladesh Krishi Bank, has passed away. He was 72.

Marina Yasmin Chowdhury, sponsor director of Prime Bank and vice-chairperson of East Coast Group, breathed her last on Saturday.