Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked Bangladeshi diplomats to reinforce economic diplomacy for expanding trade and business to achieve economic self-reliance for the country.

A teenage girl was sexually harassed in public by a group of unruly young men in Puniyaut of Brahmanbaria municipality.

The government has appointed Md Nazrul Islam, currently serving as the Director General of Multilateral Economic Affairs Wing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the new ambassador to Ethiopia.

The body of a college student who went missing four days back was recovered from near a paddy field at Aushia village in Shoilakupa upazila of Jhenaidah last night.

A total of 1,340 police personnel including eight officers-in-charge (OCs), 29 Inspectors and constables are going to join in Cox’ Bazar district police.

Due to excessive rainfall in country’s north-eastern region and India’s Meghalaya, river water level is rising, increasing the possibility of a flood situation being triggered in Sylhet and Sunamganj.

The water level of the Jamuna River crossed the danger level (DL-16.73) at the Mathurapara point and is flowing 3cm above the danger level in Bogura’s Sariakandi upazila today due to heavy rainfall.

Around 30 thousand families of nearly 100 chars, islands and villages of the river basins in Lalmonirhat and Kurigram districts remained stranded and in waterlogged conditions as a result of the ongoing flood, as the water of the Dharla River flowed 39cm above danger level.

After several days of a dispute centering the eviction of an indigenous community in Madhupur in Tangail, the community’s people and the forest department reached a consensus to resolve the issue.

A Kushtia court yesterday sent four people, including a local union parishad (UP) chairman to jail in connection with a case for embezzling government rice.

Even before the trees are fully matured to bear fruits, a young entrepreneur has fully recovered his investment of Tk 9 lakh by just selling tree saplings of Saudi Arabian dates.

Hundreds became homeless in the last seven days as houses belonging to at least 200 families were lost to the Teesta river in Rangpur’s Gangachara upazila -- an area prone to the river’s erosion.

A parliamentary standing committee has recommended enlisting coconut products -- coco-peat, coir fibre, basket, and mattress -- as exportable agricultural items since the country produces a huge amount of coconuts.

The Dhaka University student, who had filed two separate cases against former Ducsu vice-president Nurul Haque Nur and few others with Lalbagh Police Station and Kotwali Police Station, today filed a case against eight respondents, a Facebook group and over a hundred unidentified people saying they harassed her on social media posts.

A tea stall owner was hacked to death in Bagerhat’s Morrelganj last night. His body was later dumped in a canal.

Forty-two police officials posted in Cox’s Bazar have been transferred out of the district.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines is going to operate two more flights on the Dhaka-Riyadh and Dhaka-Jeddah route on September 29 and 30 for migrant workers who bought tickets for March 18-19 and March 18-20.

The High Court has started hearing on the rule issued more than three years back, questioning the trial proceedings of a case filed over the attack on motorcade of the then opposition leader and now Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira in 2002.

An e-poster has been published at the initiative of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Birth Centenary Celebration National Implementation Committee, marking Bangabandhu’s first Bangla speech at the 29th General Assembly of the United Nations on September 25, 1974.

Gas supply will remain shut in Gulshan-1, Gulshan -2, Banani, Natun Bazar, Baridhara and their adjoining areas for three hours from 2:00pm to 5:00pm tomorrow.