Hay collected from the harvest of paddy is being sold at high prices in the local markets of Lalmonirhat and Kurigram as this year’s prolonged floods have damaged grass fields extensively in the districts.

Johurul Islam was in happy mood when he started harvesting paddy in April, but the early flooding of the year made the happy mood turn to darkness.

The parliamentary standing committee on environment has decided to make public the list of 90,000 individuals and organisations, who have grabbed around 2.87 lakh acres of forestland across the country.

The US Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday, claiming the $1 trillion company uses its market power to fend off rivals and said nothing was off the table, including a breakup of the internet search and advertising company.

The Gobindaganj upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) has set a great example by giving a grocery shop to a man with disability at Khukhsia village of the upazila.

Two police personnel were injured in an attack carried out allegedly by local crime gang Fuad gang at Abhirampur village under Begumganj upzila of Noakhali this evening.

Mymensingh’s Gouripur municipality mayor and local Awami League president Syed Rafiqul Islam has been suspended from his party post in connection with the murder of Swechchasebak League leader Masudur Rahman Shuvra.

A fisherman was held for netting 200 kilogrammes of brood hilsa in Haimchar upazila of Chandpur today amid the ongoing temporary ban on catching, selling and carrying of the fish.

A parliamentary watchdog today formed a three-member sub-committee to look into the alleged corruption in tender and procurement process in the Ministry of Railways.

Five people were accused in a case filed in connection with the gang-rape of a college girl in Tangail’s Gopalpur upazila last night.

Supply chain issues, such as monitoring and deficit in good governance, remain major challenges to ensuring a strong sustainable food system in Bangladesh, according to speakers at a discussion today.

Executive Magistrate Nilufa Yasmin Chowdhury’s driver was injured as miscreants hurled a crude bomb at the vehicle in front of a polling centre in Chattogram’s Lohagara upazila this afternoon when the Union Parishad polls was in progress.

Two people who were arrested in connection with their involvement in the gang-rape of a teenage girl in Feni’s Dewanganj upazila have confessed to their crimes.

A court in Cox’s Bazar today fixed November 10 for the next hearing on the revision petition challenging the legality of the Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan murder case filed by his sister Sharmin Shahriar Ferdous.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today stressed the need to redouble efforts to find solutions for the stateless and displaced Rohingya people.

Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque today said the list of freedom fighters will be published on December 16 (Victory Day).

A leader of Pahari Chhatra Prishad (PCP), student front of the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS- MN Larma), was shot dead by a group of unknown criminals in Baghaichhari upazila of Rangamati this afternoon.

The Dhaka Medical College authorities today said it is their failure they could not protect a newborn who was declared dead by the authorities of the hospital on Friday but was later found alive right before the burial.

Giving in to the pressure of businessmen, the Department of Agriculture Marketing (DAM) has reset the price of potato at Tk 35 per kg at retail markets.

A Dhaka court today framed charges against suspended DIG Mizanur Rahman and three others in a corruption case.