The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has programmed $5.9 billion firm and $5.2 billion standby project assistance for Bangladesh in 2021-2023, according to the new Country Operations Business Plan (COBP) for Bangladesh.

Urging all to maintain austerity in electricity use, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said it will not always be possible to provide subsidy for power generation.

The High Court today commuted the death sentence of two convicts to life imprisonment in a sensational schoolboy murder case filed in Gazipur in 2017.

Detectives claimed to have arrested a medical technologist of Kushtia’s Mirpur Upazila Health Complex for providing fake coronavirus certificate.

The government has extended closure of all educational institutions till October 3, as a preventive measure against further spread of coronavirus, according to a press release of Education Ministry.

A tribunal in Dhaka has framed charges against Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed in an arms case.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has sought a 20-day remand for quizzing Abzal Hossain, a suspended accountant of the medical education department under the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), in connection with two separate money laundering cases.

The officer-in-charge (OC) of Daulatpur Police Station in Kushtia died from coronavirus last night.

The government has extended the tenure of Bangladesh Ambassador to China Mahbub Uz Zaman with a one-year contractual appointment.

It has been seen a significant improvement in the Sundarbans in the last few months amid the pandemic. The production of honey and wax has increased in the Sundarbans due to coronavirus situation and various reasons.

The contractor concerned has got six months more to complete construction work of the bridge on the Lohalia river adjacent to the district town.

Childbirth at government hospitals and healthcare facilities in the district fell sharply during the past several months amid the Covid-19 pandemic situation.

Thousands of people of several villages in Panchagarh’s Boda upazila are facing extreme sufferings as the lone road connecting the upazila headquarters got damaged badly due to erosion of the Karatoa river.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members seized 11 and a half maunds of hilsa fish being smuggled to India through the Goga border in Jashore’s Sharsha upazila early today.

Armed Police Battalion (APBn) member Constable Md Abdullah, who is one of the accused in Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan murder case, has given confessional statement before a Cox’s Bazar court tonight.

Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) has expressed grave concern over the death of a man in custody of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) in Chattogram on August 16.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to bring 31 upazilas in 18 districts under hundred percent electricity coverage and will inaugurate two newly built power plants, 11 grid sub-stations and six transmission lines tomorrow.

Faridpur district unit Chhatra League President Nishan Mahmud Shamim today confessed to a Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate that he, along with others, was involved in laundering Tk 2,000 crore.

The Election Commission (EC) has approved the draft of Political Party Registration Act.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today said that the construction work of Padma Bridge might be completed by 2022.