Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan yesterday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will officially lay the foundation stone of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Railway Bridge over the Jamuna River on November 29.

Cabbage farmers in four upazilas of the district are very happy as they are earning a good profit from sale of early variety of the winter vegetable.

Several thousand farmers are finally cultivating Aman rice again on about 400 hectares of land, in Kawadighi Haor of Moulvibazar Sadar and Rajnagar upazilas, which otherwise had been under water for about twenty years.

Three people accused in a case filed over the rape of a 22-year-old woman were sent to jail today in Bogura’s Sherpur upazila.

BNP senior joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi returned home today after receiving treatment for over two weeks at a private hospital for cardiac problems.

Police arrested four people in a case filed over the gang-rape of a housewife in Panchagarh’s Boda upazila last night.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked private banks to supplement the government’s credit programme for small traders under its stimulus packages announced to offset fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Two newly elected MPs -- Kazi Monirul Islam and Md Anwar Hossain (Helal), elected from Dhaka-5 and Naogaon-6 respectively -- took oath today at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.

A mobile court has jailed 41 fishermen for catching hilsa from the Padma and Arial Khan rivers in Sadarpur upazila of Faridpur amid the ongoing temporary ban on catching, selling and carrying of the fish.

The land development tax management system will be fully digitised from July 1 next year, Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury said today.

Turkey wants enhanced trade relations with Bangladesh to substantially increase bilateral trade volume between the two countries, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said today.

Unidentified criminals allegedly shot an Italy returnee and grabbed Tk 5.70 lakh from him in broad daylight in Savar’s Vakurta area, adjacent to a police check post, this morning.

Twenty-three people have died from Covid-19 in the country during the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

A Cox's Bazar court today placed suspended Teknaf OC Pradeep Kumar Das’s associate Constable Rubel Sharma on a five-day remand in a case filed over the killing of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.

As per latest update, Bharti Airtel today said traffic interruption in internet usage in some parts of Bangladesh will start past midnight on October 30 which will continue for four days as cable diversion activity of i2i is expected to start tentatively from that time.

A Dhaka court today sentenced four people, including three former officials of AB Bank Ltd, to 13 years' rigorous imprisonment in absentia for misappropriating Tk 3.78 crore from the bank.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the Bangladesh Army to be always prepared to face any threat from home and abroad -- to protect the constitution and sovereignty of the motherland.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may visit Bangladesh to attend the Mujib Borsho celebrations in March next year.

The residents of a village in Pabna staged a demonstration yesterday demanding arrest of local Awami League leader Belal Hossain and some of his supporters for allegedly killing a father-son duo on October 14.

A Dhaka court today placed Erfan Salim, son of Dhaka-7 lawmaker Haji Salim, and his bodyguard Zahidul Mollah on three-day remands each in a case filed on charges of assaulting a navy official in the capital's Dhanmondi area.