The High Court will deliver its verdict today over compensating Jaha Alam, who suffered in jail for three years instead of the real accused in several corruption cases.

With a ray of hope, Bangladesh’s solar energy industry’s 5.8 million decentralised solar home systems have created around 137,400 jobs, said the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

Sixty-nine percent of girls in rural Bangladesh have no access to distance education through television, as only 31 percent of their families have a television with cable network.

The High Court yesterday formed a three-member committee headed by the judge of Nari O Shishu Nirjatan Tribunal of Sylhet to conduct an inquiry into the incident of rape of a woman on the campus of Murari Chand College in Sylhet on September 25.

A woman was raped while she was searching for her missing husband and sister in Siddhirganj of Narayanganj on Monday, said police. None was arrested in this connection as of filing this report.

A general diary was filed against late Narayanganj-5 MP Nasim Osman’s son Ajmeri Osman and his three associates last night for issuing threat to an apparel factory owner and its officials.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Housing and Public Works Ministry today recommended completing infrastructural development of Ramna Park as per the original design.

The High Court today formed a three-member committee to conduct an inquiry into the incident of the gang-rape of a woman at Murari Chand College in Sylhet on September 25.

Three more accused were placed on five-day remand in a case filed over the gang-rape of a woman at Murari Chand College in Sylhet.

Jatiya Party Chairperson and Deputy Leader of the Opposition GM Quader yesterday expressed deep concern over the complex process and harassment Bangladeshi expatriate workers have to go through to get air-ticket for returning to their workplaces in Saudi Arabia.

Tuberculosis (TB) elimination activities are being hampered due to Covid-19 emergencies, despite the contagious disease causing some 107 deaths every day in the country, speakers at a discussion said yesterday.

Three construction workers died after falling from an under-construction building in Dhanmondi-32 area of Dhaka yesterday morning.

In a move to rid the city of waterlogging, Barishal City Corporation (BCC) has started a drive to clean the 43 major canals flowing through the city, but are facing an all-too-familiar obstacle -- polythene -- by the tonnes.

A woman was allegedly strangled to death by her husband in Savar on Sunday night.

Two crude bombs exploded in front of Ashulia Press Club on Sunday night, creating panic among journalists.

US-Bangla Airlines yesterday announced to resume its regular passenger flight on Dhaka-Singapore-Dhaka route from October 3.

Daffodil International University (DIU) organised a virtual orientation yesterday for students who have enrolled in fall semester, said a press release.

Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) has demolished around 12 public sitting arrangements at Biplob Uddyan near 2 number gate of the port city yesterday.

With love, respect and grief, people from all walks of life yesterday bade farewell to Attorney General Mahbubey Alam, an eminent jurist.

Six of the seven arrestees in the case filed over rape of a Chakma girl have confessed to court of their crime.